Best Furniture Wisdom

343 Furniture quotes by 292 unique authors

Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively; observe the literature… — Matthew Arnold
The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve… — Olivier Theyskens
We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and… — Joan Ryan
Sellout... I'm not crazy about the word. We're all entrepreneurs. To me, I don't care if you own a furniture store or whatever - the… — Bill Withers
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 of them; we’ve… — Timothee de Fombelle
Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. — Benjamin Franklin
I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture. — Frank Gehry
A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to… — Frank Gehry
There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble,… — Dave Grohl
Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture. — Noel Coward
The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can… — Cindy Crawford
Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a… — Ellen DeGeneres
I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own. — Les Dawson
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. — Arthur Conan Doyle
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. — Brian Eno
I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums. — Zaha Hadid
I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the… — Zaha Hadid
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and… — Donna Karan
They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese. — Christian Lacroix
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. — Fran Lebowitz
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before… — H P Lovecraft

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