Conran Quotes & Sayings

I've never met a truly creative person who was happy and satisfied with life. — Terence Conran

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

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. — Shirley Conran

The living room should be a place where we feel totally at ease - temple of the soul. — Terence Conran

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

Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness. — Terence Conran

Being pregnant was, well, inconceivable. — Shirley Conran

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

When you struggle hard and lose money, you're a hero. When you start making money you become a capitalist swine. — Terence Conran

People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive. — Terence Conran

Hanging onto a bad buy will not redeem the purchase. — Terence Conran

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

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. — Shirley Conran

You're never too old to grow up. — Shirley Conran

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

Design is a legacy of thought. — Sebastian Conran

A Superwoman isn't a woman who can do anything, but a woman who avoids doing too much. — Shirley Conran

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

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

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

The designer's job is to imagine the world not how it is, but how it should be. — Terence Conran

Tall, pale-skinned, and trained for warfare since childhood, the Celts were fearsome. They spiked up their hair with lime, covered their bodies in dyes or tattoos, ripped off their clothes in battle, and fought totally butt-naked, so mad on war and glory that no one could stop them. The Romans were terrified of the Celts, but they admired them too. Too bad Roman discipline won out in the end. But not tonight... tonight is going to be massive - awesome beyond awesomeness - and my Celts are going to win! — A.E. Conran

Which one of you bitches is my mother? — Shirley Conran