I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
My dad also survived five divorces, and the women he married cleaned his ass out every time. I used to think my… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Deep practice feels a bit like exploring a dark and unfamiliar room. You start slowly, you bump into furniture, stop, think, and… — Daniel Coyle Copy Share Image
I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
At first, my bedroom had flowers and yellow walls and huge furniture in plastic that was orange and green - and furry… — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
“He found something mean in the pretty furniture which he had bought for his house on the hire system. Annie had chosen… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop.… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Eisenhower Building - the furniture is mismatched; everything is just bad decor and bad quality. Everybody's looking down at their Blackberry.… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
“The decorating scheme of Big World is simple in theme but complicated in execution. The theme is: things that shine and things… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
“Interior decoration is not just one's artistic efforts, but it is that which your home (even if it is just a room)… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
O, that we who declare war against wars, and acknowledge our trust to be in God only, may walk in the light,… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Since the truth may not be what we would prefer. It is revealing that so many people today express approval by saying,… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
Take the Long Way Home is a song that I wrote that's on two levels - on one level I'm talking about… — Roger Hodgson Copy Share Image
I moved to Hollywood when I was 22. I was married. I had a kid right away. And I had worked as… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
The Proverbs 31 woman is a star not because of what she does but how she does it—with valor. So do your… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Domestic interior design is a fraught affair. It makes me hanker for the mild and soothing and tasteless red velvet interiors in… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars?… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
The elements that create glamour are not specific styles - bias-cut gowns or lacquered furniture - but more general qualities: grace, mystery,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“Excellent. We keep your furniture. Whose bed?” “Yours.” “Why mine?” “It’s bigger, for one.” “And for another?” “Mine doesn’t have the sort… — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“I always say—a prejudice on my part, I'm sure—you can tell a lot about a person's character from his choice of sofa.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are some closed doors we’re so frightened of opening that we don’t see them any more. We’ve pushed furniture in front… — Timothee de Fombelle Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Baltimore, the Colts were not just a team that played in the city. It was part… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
“Skulduggery stood among the ruins of what had once been a sofa. Valkyrie raised an eyebrow. 'I was trying to make up… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“The second prong in my revised Trinity is IKEA, the Swedish home store monolith. If you're unfamiliar, they carry every single thing… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
“Furniture is like that. Used and enjoyed as intended, it absorbs the experience and exudes it back into the atmosphere, but if… — Will Wiles Copy Share Image
My father would sit and design furniture and cabinets - he was a carpenter and cabinet maker - and I would ask… — Burne Hogarth Copy Share Image
I had a very Italian house - the "plastic furniture you couldn't sit on" house. Did anybody have the museum house? For… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
We don't have to remain in this radically destructive mind-set and institutional-set. We can change, and the natural order of things could… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
