Furniture Quotes · Page 6

I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman.

— Sophia Tolstaya

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

— Todd Gitlin

Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.

— Tamara Taylor

A bit of me would like to be a furniture designer or a criminal profiler.

— Anna Madeley

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

— Lisa Alther

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.

— Robin Williams

The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.

— Eric Church

I speak in a loud, clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

— Alfred Lunt

I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with…

— Simon Van Booy

I strongly believe that people may not want, or may not be able, to start again from scratch, so giving old furniture…

— Nina Campbell

I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most…

— Misha Collins

All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we…

— Charlotte Moss

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect…

— Ursula Andress

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. No furniture, no light fittings, no carpet, no bodies. Not a single body. Nothing but the million ducks, the…

— Nicky Singer

And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course…

— Julia Glass

I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting…

— Evangeline Lilly

Even if you have a small closet area, you can extend it by removing the door and turning it into a recessed…

— Kristin Cavallari

I remember going into Steve's [Jobs] house, and he had almost no furniture in it. He just had a picture of Einstein,…

— John Sculley

I'm a nature lover, I want at any given time to be able to bring lots of plants into my house, have…

— Sebastian Clovis

“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

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

When I am doing things around the house - when I'm decorating, setting up furniture, putting out a vase of flowers, lighting…

— Evangeline Lilly

I saw certain things that I think maybe other kids are protected from. Like, I saw my parents struggling. I knew that…

— Regina Spektor

“It’s something that never comes off, no matter how much you might want it to.” “You’re comparing love to a…stain?” He leans…

— Gayle Forman

It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.

— Johnny Cash

To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.

— Claire Messud

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

— Henry David Thoreau

You cannot separate the old furniture from the memories and the memories from the old furniture!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I think that is supposed to be good, that I get less from him but I feel worth less.”

— Thalia Chaltas

We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.

— Mignon McLaughlin

In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.

— Nate Berkus

It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.

— Erma Bombeck

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

— Horace Mann

If I had to choose between clothes and furniture, I'd choose furniture.

— Julianne Moore

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

— Robert Henri

Don't buy a bedroom suite, but collect your pieces separately - generally cheaper and always the decorator's way of furnishing.

— Dorothy Draper

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

— Edmund Burke

One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.

— Francis Jourdain

To me, when you decorate your home with just one store, it looks like that - it looks like a catalog.

— Bobby Berk

The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have…

— Massimo Vignelli