Furniture Quotes · Page 11

I have over 5000 costumes, and the furniture and memorabilia that goes with them.

— Debbie Reynolds

Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last.

— William Cowper

To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.

— Edith Wharton

Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I…

— Dave Grohl

I did buy a new piece of furniture so it's like, "Oh, that's something new." But generally my goals are made in…

— Jen Kirkman

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

— Barbra Streisand

Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.

— Van Day Truex

A new chair may look better, but the old one has already been molded to fit your seat.

— Anonymous

Look at the home makeover shows. It isn't realistic to tear down a house, rebuild it, and decorate it in less then…

— Kim Lyons

I don't think of decorating as a science or a discipline. People always say start with the rug, but it is often…

— Deborah Buck

A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry.…

— Dave Grohl

The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I designed furniture that pulled apart, folded, and broke down into neat stacks. Since arriving in California, I had moved four times…

— Gretel Ehrlich

Whenever anyone puts decor or artwork on the walls, it's always personal. You want people to come into your home and see…

— Drew Scott

Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back…

— Danielle Steel

We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Want to know the key to a long-lasting relationship? Don't go with your loved one to Ikea. One psychologist says the stress…

— Juan Williams

For interiors, if you have a basic sofa, you can add fun throw pillows, and cool lighting to make the space more…

— Jeremiah Brent

“Jeremy is an optimist. Maybe there's something good on TV. He settles down with the remote control on one of his father's…

— Kelly Link

Dealers always like to sell chairs in sets of four, six, or eight. And they charge a premium for supplying the whole…

— Judith Miller

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as…

— Charles Dickens

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

— Drew Scott

And last, my mom. I don’t think you know what you did. You had my brother when you were 18 years old.…

— Kevin Durant

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

— James Laver

I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.

— Kevin McCloud

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

— Billy Casper

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

Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

I never felt that I was recognised for anything in particular. I was just part of the TV furniture.

— Hugh Dennis

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

— Lisa Marie Presley

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

— Isaac D'Israeli

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

— Arthur Conan Doyle

A chair is to have no backside. It should be beautiful from all sides and angles.

— Hans Wegner

The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.

— Christiaan Huygens

There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

— Wallis Simpson

When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

— Nate Berkus

No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.

— Graham Greene

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior…

— Lenny Kravitz