My goal is to make furniture that people can be comfortable living with. If you’re not preoccupied with making an impact with… — Sam Maloof Copy Share Image
People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
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
“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
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
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
Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. "If you don't know what… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back,… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years… — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Rich mahogany wood was used to construct the bookshelves, and the floor is also hardwood of the same deep tone. Copper trim… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of… — John B. S. Haldane 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
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
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
“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
“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
“Without people around, furniture has nothing to do but bear witness to the structural inadequacies of the human body: How much padding,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“I say now, as I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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 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
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
