01UndatedHonor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn’t 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.Douglas Wilson / quote ↗
02UndatedOnce young girls used to play with baby dolls, seeing themselves in the role of the nurturing mother; now they can be seen playing with Barbie dolls, seeing themselves in the place of the doll. And of course, the doll is both pretty and stacked. The pressure is on and stays on.Douglas Wilson / quote ↗
03UndatedKnow something about the world, and by this I mean the world outside of books. This might require joining the Marines, or working on an oil rig or as a hash slinger at a truck stop in Kentucky. Know what it smells like out there. If everything you write smells like a library, then your prospective audience will be limited to those who like the smell of libraries.Douglas Wilson / quote ↗
04UndatedThere is no virtue or vice in a transitive verb, everything depends on the direct object. 'I LOVE' could be virtuous or not - you could love ice cream, Jesus, child porn, my country, hurting people, the lust of the flesh. Love is not an automatic virtue. Hatred is not an automatic vice. What's the direct object? from Debate In The Age Of The Glitter-Bomb in The City, Fall 2013.Douglas Wilson / quote ↗
05UndatedOnly a madman would try to market headache medicine today under the name John's Headache Pills. This would be insufficiently techno-marvelous. No, the name must sound like it carne out of a laboratory yesterday ... Zantistat 100, or something like that.Douglas Wilson / quote ↗
06UndatedYeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.Douglas Wilson / quote ↗
07UndatedI 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.Douglas Wilson / quote ↗
09UndatedIn two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.Douglas Wilson / quote ↗
10UndatedThroughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.Douglas Wilson / quote ↗
11UndatedI 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.Douglas Wilson / quote ↗
12UndatedBeing in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.Douglas Wilson / quote ↗
13UndatedWhat people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.Douglas Wilson / quote ↗
