Francis Jourdain famous quotes

One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.
-- Francis Jourdain

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In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.

Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.

But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.

You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture.

Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

No one chair should be isolated ...