Furniture Quotes · Page 8

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

— Christian Lacroix

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

— Robertson Davies

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

— John Ashbery

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

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

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

— Luca Guadagnino

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

— Susan Sontag

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

— Benjamin Franklin

When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my…

— Cindy Crawford

“It came as no surprise to learn of the success the Swede has recently enjoyed with his furniture. In that rotten state…

— Timur Vermes

By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your…

— Kelly Wearstler

You can learn the subtle language of interior style, but many people simply buy it. If you put yourself in the hands…

— Nicholas Haslam

Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like…

— Paige Butcher

“We sat together in three leather chairs next to a painting of nineteenth-century statesman Henry Clay and turned the conversation to Scouting…

— Alvin Townley

I always encourage my young clients just starting to create a home, to buy at least one piece of investment furniture, or…

— Hilary Farr

In a way, there's nothing more intimate than a piece of jewelry. A painting is hung on somebody's wall. You put a…

— Simon de Pury

The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm…

— Jenny Downham

“The two or three antique chairs had apparently been chosen for their bizarre design and not for their ability to seat anyone,…

— Anonymous

Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them…

— Andrea Camilleri

It wasn't just that my breasts were sore and my legs seethed with restlessness at night. A knitted cap seemed to have…

— Marni Jackson

The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards.…

— Anonymous

That's the trouble with the world we live in. It's full of people just doing their job and ignoring what's really going…

— Robert Muchamore

believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an…

— Douglas Coupland

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else…

— Frank McCourt

I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.

— Kelly Wearstler

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

— David Linley

I designed every piece {of furniture} for a different reason and purpose, so I love each one.

— Savannah Brinson

I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made…

— Ellen DeGeneres

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

— Anthea Turner

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

— Michael S. Smith

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

— Jennifer Crusie

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

— Mick Jagger

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

— Fran Lebowitz

Designers can give your house a classy and contemporary look but not a homely look.

— KK

I'm a master assembler of Ikea furniture, in case anyone wants to know.

— Allison Williams

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

— Les Dawson

I jog at the Rose Bowl, and I collect antique and vintage furniture, so I'm there every few weeks for the flea…

— Theo Rossi

“Even the furniture made the most of the lack of supervision to move about.”

— Diane Setterfield

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

— Barbra Streisand

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

— Zaha Hadid