Conran Quotes

#1. Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

Shirley Conran

#2. Any character who goes after a desire and is impeded is forced to struggle (otherwise the story is over.) And that struggle makes him change. So the ultimate goal of the dramatic code, and of the storyteller, is to present a change in a character or to illustrate why that change did not occur.

John Truby

#3. Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.

Terence Conran

#4. Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

Friedrich Engels

#5. Yeah, and I recently had my first Elvis moment. A gang of young girls was jumping all over me. It was kinda scary. And totally flattering.

Channing Tatum

#6. Being pregnant was, well, inconceivable.

Shirley Conran

#7. Patient grasshopper, good things come to those who wait

Cassandra Clare

#8. I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.

Jacqueline Bisset

#9. Which one of you bitches is my mother?

Shirley Conran

#10. People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.

Terence Conran

#11. If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection balanced by a sense of direction and progress.

Terence Conran

#12. With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

Shirley Conran

#13. Design is a legacy of thought.

Sebastian Conran

#14. A Superwoman isn't a woman who can do anything, but a woman who avoids doing too much.

Shirley Conran

#15. Women are also more reluctant to apply for promotions even when deserved, often believing that good job performance will naturally lead to rewards.8

Sheryl Sandberg

#16. This is me being sad.
Maybe you think I'm being happy in this picture. Really I'm being sad but pretending I'm being happy. I'm doing that because I think people won't like me if I look sad.

Michael Rosen

#17. You might be a redneck if you need an estimate from your barber before you get a haircut.

Jeff Foxworthy

#18. Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.

Terence Conran

#19. If I go to your home, and you're cooking me a meal, I will eat whatever you put in front of me.

Bryan Fuller

#20. The designer's job is to imagine the world not how it is, but how it should be.

Terence Conran

#21. Losing your innocence has very little to do with virginity, you know. Loss of innocence comes when you have to deal with the real world by yourself, when you learn that the first rule of life is kill or be killed. So different from one's nursery stories." She

Shirley Conran

#22. As a photographer you have to do things you don't want to.

Massimo Vitali

#23. Hanging onto a bad buy will not redeem the purchase.

Terence Conran

#24. Home is the heart of life Home is where we feel at ease, where we belong, where we can create surroundings that reflect our tastes and pleasures Making a home is a form of creativity open to everyone.

Terence Conran

#25. You're never too old to grow up.

Shirley Conran

#26. I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

Shirley Conran

#27. Impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love.

Sue Monk Kidd

#28. This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.

Thomas Watson

#29. God reveals your destiny through synchronicity.

Rabia Noorstani

#30. The one who understood that you don't always have to prove to the world that you are a man.

Hamidah Gul

#31. I've never met a truly creative person who was happy and satisfied with life.

Terence Conran

#32. Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

Shirley Conran

#33. When you struggle hard and lose money, you're a hero. When you start making money you become a capitalist swine.

Terence Conran

#34. At eighteen I thought I knew everything, then at thirty, I realized that I knew nothing--and possibly never would, which depressed me until I noticed that no one else knew anything either.

Shirley Conran

#35. Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life. They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them.

Terence Conran

#36. With guided hands, the world can change with a little love, hope, courage and determination.

Carolyn Kulhavy

#37. The living room should be a place where we feel totally at ease - temple of the soul.

Terence Conran