Furniture famous quotes

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.
-- Adrienne Monnier

#Fashion #Art #Furniture

I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.
-- Aerin Lauder

#Book #Rooms #Furniture

Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.
-- Albert Hadley

#Looks #Furniture #Forget

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

#Tables #Furniture #Dressings

There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.
-- Anna Sui

#Different #Pieces #Furniture

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

#Differences #Furniture #Rearranging

Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment
-- Arne Jacobsen

#Furniture #Enough #Plastic

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.
-- Arnold Newman

#Photography #Moving #Furniture

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Gentleman #Violence #Furniture

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Design #Special #Furniture

Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.
-- Billy Casper

#Furniture #Aging #Problem

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
-- Brad Pitt

#Design #Furniture #Architecture

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.
-- Brian Eno

#Thinking #Furniture

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.
-- Christian Lacroix

#Design #Furniture #Scandinavians

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.
-- Danny Bonaduce

#School #Acting #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.
-- David Brooks

#Buying #Furniture #Looks

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.
-- Dee Hock

#Mind #Rooms #Furniture

The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.
-- Donald Judd

#Attitude #Ideas #Furniture

Since the truth may not be what we would prefer. It is revealing that so many people today express approval by saying, "I'm comfortable with that," and disapproval by saying, "I'm not comfortable with that." Comfort is important when it comes to furniture and headphones, but it is irrelevant when it comes to truth.
-- Douglas Groothuis

#People #Important #Furniture

No one chair should be isolated ...
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Furniture #Chairs #Should

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.
-- Emily Procter

#Pieces #Furniture #Modern

The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.
-- Eric Church

#Towns #Furniture

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.
-- Ettore Sottsass

#Exercise #Design #Furniture

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

#Rooms #Furniture

As a Christian, I am responsible for the furniture of my mind.
-- Frank E. Gaebelein

#Christian #Mind #Furniture

I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.
-- Frank Gehry

#Hands #Woodworking #Furniture

All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!
-- George Eliot

#Writing #Errors #Furniture

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.
-- George Eliot

#World #Dinner #Furniture

I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically, since I now live in capitalism. It was certainly 'realism', but in another form - the capitalist form, as it were. It wasn't meant that seriously. It was more a slogan for that particular Happening at a furniture store.
-- Gerhard Richter

#Art #Furniture #Form

A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.
-- Hope Mirrlees

#House #Needs #Furniture

No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.
-- Jacki Weaver

#Home #Thinking #Furniture

Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.
-- James Laver

#Clothes #Mind #Furniture

That furniture cost me a fortune! It's designer furniture." "Designed by whom ? Darth Vader ? The Hitler Youth ?
-- Jennifer Crusie

#Furniture #Cost #Youth

I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.
-- Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#Tantrums #Furniture #Persons

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.
-- Jonathan Ive

#Father #Furniture #Incredibles

That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories.
-- Joseph Roth

#Accessories #Furniture #Found

I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.
-- Karen Morley

#Furniture #Euthanasia

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.
-- Lisa Alther

#Rooms #Furniture #Surprise

I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.
-- Lisa Marie Presley

#Art #Furniture

Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small.
-- Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

#Fashion #Ferrari #Furniture

I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Shoes #Furniture #Tempted

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.
-- Marc Newson

#Europe #Rooms #Furniture

The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.
-- Massimo Vignelli

#Color #Legs #Furniture

Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.
-- Michael Martin Hammer

#Change #Organization #Furniture

I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.
-- Mick Jagger

#Furniture

We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.
-- Mignon McLaughlin

#People #Furniture #Motive

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.
-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#Furniture #Heavy #Dependable

Furniture that is too obviously designed is very interesting, but too often belongs only in museums.
-- Milo

#Museums #Interesting #Furniture

In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
-- Nate Berkus

#Space #Perfect #Furniture

The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Pieces #Furniture #Bed

In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding.
-- Olympia Brown

#Understanding #Furniture #Common

Men do cry, but only when assembling furniture.
-- Rita Rudner

#Men #Furniture #Cry

The key to life was rearranging the furniture.
-- Robert Ferro

#Keys #Furniture #Rearranging

It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.
-- Stephen Bayley

#Furniture #Sometimes #Made

When I finally bought one, the Buchla was my only piece of furniture. I lived with that thing. It was my boyfriend! I thought there was something wrong with me, because I was in love with a machine
-- Suzanne Ciani

#My Boyfriend #Furniture #Machines

No furniture is so charming as books.
-- Sydney Smith

#Book #Furniture #Charming

Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.
-- Terry Pratchett

#Furniture #Fantasy #Modern

I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.
-- Thom Filicia

#Thinking #Italian #Furniture

I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.
-- Tim Conway

#Fall #Woods #Furniture

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
-- Todd Gitlin

#Everyday #Furniture #Environment

I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.
-- Ty Pennington

#Kids #Drawing #Furniture

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.
-- Ursula Andress

#Trying #Antiques #Furniture

Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity.
-- Walter Lippmann

#Ideas #Furniture #Eternity

I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
-- Zaha Hadid

#Museums #Furniture #Pedestal

It is not enough just to open the door to the rooms of power. We have to get inside and rearrange the furniture!
-- Gertrude Mongella

#Doors #Rooms #Furniture

For instance, [Adolf Hitler] would never have spent the night at the Widenmayerstraße apartment. He visited it before we moved the furniture in, he visited maybe 4 times afterwards and he never spent the entire night.
-- Gretl Braun

#Night #Furniture #Apartment

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.
-- Isaac D'Israeli

#Mind #Furniture #Ancient

I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.
-- Kelly Wearstler

#Fashion #Furniture #Architecture

By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.
-- Kelly Wearstler

#Different #Eras #Furniture

Make sure furniture decor has similar scale. It's all about scale, proportion, measuring, being conscious of the overall plan.
-- Michael S. Smith

#Furniture #Conscious #Scales

Some women want the strong silent type, so they can tell him to shut up and rearrange the furniture.
-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Strong #Want #Furniture

In my head, my business is architecture and furniture; it's 70 percent Prouvé, and Corbusier, Royer, Jeanneret - they all passed away. So it's retrospective, I'm looking back.
-- Patrick Seguin

#Furniture #Passed Away #Architecture

I make very basic country rustic furniture.
-- Thomas Middleditch

#Country #Furniture #Rustic

A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.
-- Benjamin A. Rogge

#Men #Church #Furniture

there is something dangerous about mirrors. ... What dynamite we handle when we lift a mirror or bend towards one! I seldom do.
-- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

#Mirrors #Furniture #Dangerous

There’s a lot of work being done today that doesn’t have any soul in it. The technique may be the utmost perfection, yet it is lifeless. It doesn’t have a soul. I hope my furniture has a soul to it.
-- Sam Maloof

#Perfection #Soul #Furniture