Quotes by Kevin McCloud

About Kevin McCloud:

Kevin McCloud is a British designer, writer and television presenter best known for his work on the Channel 4 series Grand Designs, which he has presented since its debut in April 1999 and his residential housing development company HAB Housing.
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I am a big fan of long drop, composting toilets - I like the cycle of using waste. When you have experienced one and seen what comes out of the bottom, it is amazing stuff. It's the most beautiful, driest, sweet-smelling compost.

Kevin McCloud

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

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Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

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I'm really quite conscious of clothes and the way they fit and don't regret wearing anything. Not even the five-inch stack heels I wore with three-button high-waisters at comprehensive school. Regret is for wimps.

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I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.

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I hate negativity. I hate people who say the phrase 'I hate'. I really don't like the word 'hate.' Dislike, frightened of, terrified of, or yukky - but not 'hate.'

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The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

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I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

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I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

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You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.

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My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.

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I don't know whether other asthma sufferers find this, but I've noticed that even when I've got my asthma under control, I often develop another problem such as an ear, chest or sinus infection and sometimes even joint pains.

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I've had my fair share of colds, which last longer than they should and can cause wheezing, so I avoid people who are sneezing like the plague and am scrupulous about hygiene and hand-washing.

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Self-builders are the adrenalin junkies of the DIY world; it's the equivalent of base-jumping off the top of the Gherkin to land in a paddling pool.

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What happened in 2008 stopped people in their tracks. People stopped looking at their homes simply as commodities to exploit and starting thinking about how they might personalise that space and make them less bland and more autobiographical, and tha...

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Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

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I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that's normal, isn't it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch.

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A friend of mine once wrote a silly article about all these metrosexuals like David Beckham wearing sarongs, and she described me as a 'heteropolitan.' I don't know what that means. I think it was a joke.

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I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

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My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.

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Author Bio

  • NameKevin McCloud
  • DescriptionBritish designer, writer and television presenter
  • BornMay 8, 1958
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Presenter; Designer
  • AwardsMember Of The Order Of The British Empire