I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
People think that buying something for their home which is up-to-date is chic, but often it's a cliche. I call people who… — Nicholas Haslam 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
It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own…style. Conversely, to put very fine… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can… — Allen Johnson Copy Share Image
Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you have 8-foot ceilings, you'll want a low sofa, which gives the impression that the ceiling is taller than it is.… — David Easton Copy Share Image
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige… — Verner Panton Copy Share Image
I really liked the design aesthetic of the mid-century modern for furniture and the early '60s stuff for the clothes. But then,… — Adam Reed Copy Share Image
When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
As your consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen,… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans.… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
“The armchairs, with their flat, sedentary cushions, were designed for society, but the bed was made for solitude. It had a straitened… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Houses without personality are a series of walled enclosures with furniture standing around in them. Other houses are filled with things of… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American… — Sheldon Jackson Copy Share Image
Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
Usually, when people think of marquetry, they think of Dutch 17th-century furniture with inlaid flowers and jugs. Our goal is to break… — David Linley Copy Share Image
The citric acid in lemon juice makes it perfect for bleaching, disinfecting and cutting through grease. And olive oil is a great… — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
My parents, last time we went to Ikea, got into a huge fight, almost got divorced. My dad accidentally put his fist… — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“I'm more preoccupied with furnishing my head than the place where I live. The most beautiful rooms I have entered have been… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
If I wasn't acting, I think I would like to do interior design. Yeah, because you know, with the Balinese background, and… — Melissa George Copy Share Image
You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
When it comes to art, buy with your eyes, not your ears. I tried very hard not to 'decorate' with art. Art… — Jason Pomeranc Copy Share Image
I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
No one with a living room radio that was a piece of furniture at the time would say, gee. I want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Bing," Manx said, "I thought I told you to put Mr. and Mrs. de Zoet in the spare room!" "Well," Bing said,… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
