Furniture Quotes · Page 6

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Think of how much furniture you need. What's the best way to have it be functional in a great way? If it's…

— Michael S. Smith

I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of…

— Erin Wasson

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

— Anton Chekhov

“Why are we all only like mortal pieces of furniture? Why is nothing important?”

— D.H. Lawrence

Gauri Khan Designs has bespoke furniture for your living room - and the outdoors, too!

— Gauri Khan

There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.

— Mary Margaret McBride

You just touch on things. You don't go round the room describing the furniture.

— Evan Hunter

That’s a divorce. You ever seen a divorce? That’s like her taking not only the furniture and the silverware -- she took…

— Clint Bowyer

There’s a lot of work being done today that doesn’t have any soul in it. The technique may be the utmost perfection,…

— Sam Maloof

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what…

— William Morris

When you're designing clothing, you really only have one point of focus, and that's the body. But home is fabrics and furniture…

— Betsey Johnson

You know I used to work at Ikea, selling over 7,000 products. Give me a number between 1-7,000 I'll tell you about…

— Milton Jones

I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger…

— Henry David Thoreau

If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that…

— Chuck Klosterman

There are so many ways to decorate small spaces. One of my favorite things is throw pillows. They can add so much…

— Bethany Mota

The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I believe that a negative statement is poison.I'm convinced that the negative has power. It lives. And if you allow it to…

— Maya Angelou

If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None…

— Arthur C. Clarke

My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back…

— Isabel Allende

Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively;…

— Matthew Arnold

Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's…

— Jeanette Winterson

Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications.…

— Arthur Balfour

There are simple, small things you can do that really will impact the space. Things like changing out your curtain panels to…

— Drew Scott

I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.

— Wendy O. Williams

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

— Jane Austen

The biggest cost in making a sofa is the labor/time, thus why recovering one cost almost just as much as a new…

— Bobby Berk

I think it's our unique product selection and the idea that everything we sell only can be purchased at Ikea.

— Joseph Roth

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

— Milo

They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

— John Ruskin

Is there a way to design a room in my house where I float around? I would quite enjoy that. It's nuts.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I've always loved great upholstery, and think that a great sofa is one of the most important pieces of furniture in your…

— Bobby Berk

When your home is perfect, every plant in place, every piece of furniture suits the space completely - you've completed a task.

— Frederick Lenz

The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is…

— Arthur Miller

... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year.

— Phyllis Diller

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

— Prabal Gurung

I'm not a furniture person. You sit on the stuff, sleep on it, make love on it.

— Jack Hemingway

Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.

— Tamara Taylor