Conran's Quotes

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

Shirley Conran

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

Terence Conran

#3. He would like best of all to persecute us with fire and sword, but this method has availed him little because through the blood of martyrs the church has been watered.

Martin Luther

#4. 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

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

Shirley Conran

#6. Design is a legacy of thought.

Sebastian Conran

#7. The fact that you use the term "cunt" in the same breath as "sexist", shows that you display the same muddled, fucked-up thinking oan this issue as you do oan everything else.

Irvine Welsh

#8. 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

#9. American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.

Anthony F. C. Wallace

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

Terence Conran

#11. I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.

Trent Reznor

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

Shirley Conran

#13. Being pregnant was, well, inconceivable.

Shirley Conran

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

Terence Conran

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Terence Conran

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

Shirley Conran

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

Terence Conran

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

Terence Conran

#22. It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.

Franz Von Papen

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

Shirley Conran

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

Shirley Conran

#25. 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

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

Terence Conran

#27. 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