Best Furniture Quotations
343 Furniture quotes by 292 unique authors
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A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a bit…
— Nancy Lancaster
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Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.
— Van Day Truex
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If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages, harmless…
— Scott Fahlman
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In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and…
— Olympia Brown
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Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the…
— Jandy Nelson
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My goal is to make furniture that people can be comfortable living with. If you’re not preoccupied with making an impact with your designs, chances…
— Sam Maloof
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There’s a lot of work being done today that doesn’t have any soul in it. The technique may be the utmost perfection, yet it is…
— Sam Maloof
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The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.
— Robertson Davies
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To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost…
— Ingvar Kamprad
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As a Christian, I am responsible for the furniture of my mind.
— Frank E. Gaebelein
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Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have…
— William Bridges
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I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than…
— Janet Street-Porter
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The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea.
— Robert Henri
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I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.
— Erin Wasson
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I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs…
— Pablo Picasso
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Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
— Todd Gitlin
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Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange…
— Diana Vreeland
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Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to…
— Aldo Leopold
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It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design,…
— Tadao Ando
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The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.
— Christiaan Huygens
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It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
— Erma Bombeck
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I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.
— Thom Filicia
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Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.
— Helmut Newton
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There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing…
— Anna Sui
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Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person,…
— Anthony Burgess
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