A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively.

-Bellini, Mario
  In the NewYork Times, 25  Jun.

   What brought the kindred spider to that height, Then steered the white moth thither in the night? What but design of darkness to appall?ö If design govern in a thing so small.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'Design'.

The ill design is most ill for the designer.

-Hesiod   c.8c
Opera et dies, 266 (translated by M L  West,1988).

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

-Lauren, Ralph
  In the NewYork Times,19  Apr.

   It is characteristic of the design of scientific research that exquisite attention is devoted to methodological problems that can be solved, while the pretense is made that the ones that cannot be solved are really nothing to worryabout.

-Lewontin, Richard Charles
  'Sex, Lies, and Social Science', in the NewYork Review of Books, 20  Apr.

Nothing the greatest artist can conceive That every marble block doth not confine Within itself; and only its design The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

-Michelangelo full name Michelangelo Buonarroti
c.1538  Quoted in Robert  J Clements (ed) Michelangelo:  A Self- Portrait (1968).

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

-Stein, Gertrude
  In theTatler, no.38,7 Jul.

Esta gente e¤   boa e de boa simplicidade. E imprimir-se-a¤ ligeiramente neles cualquer cunho, que les quiserem dar. E logo lhes, Nosso Senhor, deu bons corpos e bons rostos, como a bons homens, e Ele que nos por aqui trouxe, creio que na‹  o foi sem causa. E portanto,Vossa Alteza, pois tanto deseja acrescentar na santa fe¤   cato¤ l ica, deve entender em sua salva c° a‹  o. These people are good and simple.You can stamp on them any design that you wish to give them. And Our Lord gave them good bodies and good faces, and I think that it was his plan that we arrive here. Therefore,Your Majesty, since you wish so much to increase Catholic faith, you must provide for their salvation.

-Vaz de Caminha, Pero
Carta (published1817).

Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me"  me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.

-Vian, Boris
  L'Arrache-c½ur.