Hope Mirrlees famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.
Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.
No violence, gentlemen â€” no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
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.

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