In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

Ripping up carpet is easy, tiling is the issue.

Use plants to bring life.

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.

Inexpensive is good.

There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.

Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

I enjoy talking to fans.

I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.

I am the young, edgy New Yorker.

I know people don't think I work.

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing.

I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.

Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records.

Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.

I'm having the time of my life and I'm glad people are enjoy it.

I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing.

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank.

They don't know they're living in a glass house.

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

A challenge always is good. Normal design does not come under the constraints of a small budget and time frame. But it has helped me to make quick and knowledgeable decisions.

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.

Why stress tomorrow when you can stress today?

Honor must start in the heart but if it ends there it isnt honor. Honor must be expressed through words symbols actions or gestures. Honor is among the most incarnational of the virtues. It must have feet and hands.

Your deep interests should always have a dog-eared place on your nightstand.

The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing?

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.

We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

Good design is good business.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.