We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the… — Janet Street-Porter Copy Share Image
On Furnishing One's Home - Pick your furniture like you pick a wife; it should make you feel comfortable and look nice,… — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
I try to make my things aesthetically pleasing; but, if it isn’t functional, people will ‘oo’ and ‘aah’ over it in an… — Sam Maloof Copy Share Image
They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms… — Billy Baldwin Copy Share Image
My furniture is banal and my house is pretty empty. The hardest thing to find is a sofa that is comfortable and… — Hussein Chalayan Copy Share Image
He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
This happened to me last week. We're in the process of remodeling our house; we've been doing it for a while now.… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact!… — Candice Olson Copy Share Image
Have you ever considered how much pure stuff and nonsense surrounds this subject of interior decoration? Probably not. Almost everyone believes that… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I explain to everyone I deal with-co-workers, children, friends-that I'm transitionally challenged and they should call me on my cell phone if… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece… — Steve Miller 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
Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics… — Tatyana Tolstaya Copy Share Image
“George was, in truth, one of the sort who evidently have made some mistake in coming into this world at all, as… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs,… — Katherine Howe Copy Share Image
Adding throws or blankets that have great texture over the back of a sofa adds some interesting personality really quickly and will… — Jeremiah Brent Copy Share Image
I'm the type of bloke who gets a flatpack cabinet from Ikea, puts it together without reading the instructions, then gets the… — John Bishop Copy Share Image
My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly… — Marc Newson Copy Share Image
I made a sofa that is constantly being updated the more people sit on it, or sit through it, or don't sit… — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings… — Genevieve Gorder Copy Share Image
Technology is a huge part of our lives and it's only a matter of time that it becomes a part of every… — Sussanne Khan 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
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
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
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
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
