I try never to say no when it comes to creativity, but I do try and lead down an "appropriate road" -… — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream… — Luke Macfarlane Copy Share Image
People buy very badly made furniture and fabric. Instead, buy a beautiful dining table, well-made upholstery. It's almost like dressing for success. — Michael S. Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can just not spend that much money or do a minor change with color on a certain room, and it… — Katherine LaNasa Copy Share Image
“Look. Folks. It's simple. If you have poor taste in decorating, don't go nuts in the entryway. Wait until your guests are… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books,… — Gae Aulenti Copy Share Image
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long; you're just sad, that's all. The mean… — Audrey Hepburn 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
As we move into the 21st century, it becomes ever clearer that the ultimate, most intimate territory for design is not electronics,… — Rick Poynor Copy Share Image
My dad came over from Ireland when he was 13 and lived on the streets, working on building sites, and has just… — Amanda Hale Copy Share Image
Well, 9/11 made me think about the towers, and the fact that I lived in New York for a long time, while… — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Trees are very good friends. Firm friends. My five year olds tree could be relied upon to be there next day, uncritical… — Phillip Adams 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
“I am always there. But they don't care if I am because I am furniture. I don't get hit I don't get… — Thalia Chaltas Copy Share Image
I've already bought another house in Tangier and the one in Deauville has been for sale for some time. As for Yves's… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
“You think the world begins and ends with you and your perfect little family and your perfect little life and you think… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Nothing like an orange and olive green-striped couch sitting on orange carpet and surrounded by dark wood paneling to get the inspiration… — Erynn Mangum Copy Share Image
Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“Modani furniture is discounting many items up to 40 percent while supplies last (the Fabiola coffee table, shown, regularly $199, is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I make chairs, they have legs; they can go anywhere in the world. Interiors are a different responsibility. A house is… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I designed furniture that pulled apart, folded, and broke down into neat stacks. Since arriving in California, I had moved four times… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm usually able to reuse at least 50 percent of the clients' furniture. Most times, I'll just clean it up, make it… — Jonathan Scott Copy Share Image
Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in… — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
When I finally bought one, the Buchla was my only piece of furniture. I lived with that thing. It was my boyfriend!… — Suzanne Ciani Copy Share Image
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on… — Anna Sui Copy Share Image
My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn't make me any more graceful - they just helped keep me from bumping… — Toni Tennille Copy Share Image
The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture paid for, or a retirement… — Audrey Sutherland Copy Share Image
