Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate! — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I just saw 'Tiny Furniture' and became so obsessed with it that Judd Apatow jokes that I'm the distributor of it. I… — Jennifer Konner Copy Share Image
If I could find a real life place to make me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
I think on a day-to-day basis, what attracts us in coexisting with another living, evolving thing, is that you have a relationship… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
This region [North Carolina] used to be the furniture manufacturing hub of the world. I know because I bought plenty. But the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible. — James Laver Copy Share Image
The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture. — Steve Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Again I waited - oh, but for a brief interval: I presently distinguished an extraordinary shuffling and stamping of feet on the… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff. — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“Skulduggery stood among the ruins of what had once been a sofa. Valkyrie raised an eyebrow. 'I was trying to make up… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I remember going into Steve's [Jobs] house, and he had almost no furniture in it. He just had a picture of Einstein,… — John Sculley Copy Share Image
There is a new codeword going round school. DFS. It means 'desperate for sex.' It sounds like you are talking about the… — Rae Earl Copy Share Image
Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image