Famous quotes containing the word designed:
“Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
“Haggerty: Girls! Girls! Girls! Be careful of my hats.
Chorus Girl: Well, we gotta get down on the stage.
Haggerty: I dont care. I wont allow you to ruin them.
Dressing Room Matron: See, I told you. They were too high and too wide.
Haggerty: Well, Big Woman, I designed the costumes for the show, not the doors for the theater.
Dressing Room Matron: I know that. If you had, theyd have been done in lavender.”
—James Gleason (18861959)
“It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genrethe novel designed on purpose to be excluded from the Booker short-list.”
—Angela Carter (19401992)