Furniture Quotes · Page 11

A cat, by any other name, is still a sneaky little furball that barfs on the furniture.

— Chris Rock

In close-nailed furniture, if the nails used are identical they have been manufactured industrially, which implies a date after 1850.

— David Linley

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

— Luca Guadagnino

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

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.

— John Ashbery

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

— Benjamin Franklin

Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.

— Susan Sontag

Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.

— Mason Cooley

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect…

— Ursula Andress

All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we…

— Charlotte Moss

I strongly believe that people may not want, or may not be able, to start again from scratch, so giving old furniture…

— Nina Campbell

I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most…

— Misha Collins

I started in the industry in Public Relations, Quality Assurance, Information Systems and furniture moving. I tried my hand in design and…

— Dan Miller

“We may yearn for rustic detail and old-world charm, but those who have it set their minds on vinyl wallpaper, fitted carpets…

— Tahir Shah

Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use…

— Nate Berkus

I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with…

— Simon Van Booy

This region [North Carolina] used to be the furniture manufacturing hub of the world. I know because I bought plenty. But the…

— Donald Trump

Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of…

— John B. S. Haldane

“In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first…

— Andrew Wiles

I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically,…

— Gerhard Richter

When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back,…

— Willie Nelson

Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years…

— Edmund de Waal

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Perhaps he should give up on love and just build furniture instead. He could do with a few more free standing wardrobes…

— Jenny O'Brien

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

— Gianfranco Ferre

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

— Albert Hadley

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

— Walter Lippmann

The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.

— Robertson Davies

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

— Christian Lacroix

So many people arrange furniture in order to see what's going on outside. But why? The view isn't going anywhere.

— Albert Hadley

I learned that buying expensive furniture with toddlers around is pointless.

— Nicole Polizzi

Men don't live well by themselves. They don't even live like people. They live like bears with furniture.

— Rita Rudner

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

— Frank Gehry

Most furniture is not made for people - they are made for the people who sell them.

— Laura Huxley

My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing…

— Stephen J. Cannell

Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

— Pauline Kael

“It’s a one of a kind, camel-toe couch. For when yoga pants aren’t enough.”

— H.M. Ward

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy…

— Albert Einstein

I already know how strong you are. You didn't have to break the furniture." —Bella Swan

— Stephenie Meyer