Top 39 Genevieve Gorder Quotes
#1. Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.
Genevieve Gorder
#2. You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers.
Genevieve Gorder
#3. The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened ... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.
Genevieve Gorder
#4. Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle.
Genevieve Gorder
#5. I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.
Genevieve Gorder
#6. So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.
Genevieve Gorder
#7. Dare to accomplish the things you've only dreamed about doing. If you can dream it, you can do it.
Denise Austin
#8. When I first came to the States, I thought I had a perfect American accent, and then I was abruptly becoming aware that it wasn't. So I did have to work on it a little bit, but I was hesitant working on it because I thought it was good.
Joel Kinnaman
#9. It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
Benjamin Franklin
#11. I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.
Genevieve Gorder
#12. 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.
Genevieve Gorder
#13. So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.
Genevieve Gorder
#14. You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.
Genevieve Gorder
#15. We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.
Genevieve Gorder
#16. Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace.
L.J.Smith
#17. I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.
Genevieve Gorder
#18. But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.
Genevieve Gorder
#19. I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.
Genevieve Gorder
#20. If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.
Alfred P. Sloan
#21. Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.
Genevieve Gorder
#22. When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern.
Genevieve Gorder
#23. And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.
Genevieve Gorder
#24. I'll send you a friend request."
"You do that, sonny. I'm on the Internet every last Friday in the month, from eleven to three.
Nina George
#26. I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.
Genevieve Gorder
#27. I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.
Genevieve Gorder
#28. I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.
Genevieve Gorder
#29. Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself.
Genevieve Gorder
#30. I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.
Genevieve Gorder
#31. I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about.
Genevieve Gorder
#32. We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
Lacey Chabert
#33. That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush ... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.
Genevieve Gorder
#34. If I grew up with a lot of money, where everything was just handed to me, I feel like those are the people that, a lot of time, grow up to do worse things. Or they'll start in a business really young, like eight or something, through all their schooling.
Justin Bieber
#36. It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.
Genevieve Gorder
#37. My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!
Alan Rufus
#38. Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.
Jennifer McMahon
#39. There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.
Genevieve Gorder
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