Arguments Quote by Nancy Kress

“It makes me almost hope I'm not a genius; they must be very wearying to have about - and awfully destructive to the furniture.”

— Jean Webster

“Why must I test myself? Because no one else will, not anymore. Now that I am no longer a student of any kind, I…

— Sara Baume

“but the reality of millions of years of adaptation to a ruggedly physical existence will not just go away because desks were invented.”

— Mark Rippetoe

“Dear me, Mr. Day. You really do love to get fucked on desks, don't you? Put you on a desk, and you're begging for…

— K.J. Charles

“The sad rocking chair in the corner was actually a joke of a chair: if one started laughing at it, one could die laughing.…

— Knut Hamsun

“All English stories get bogged down in whether or not the furniture is socially and aesthetically acceptable.”

— A.S. Byatt

“A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered mind.”

— C.E. Murphy

“Without people around, furniture has nothing to do but bear witness to the structural inadequacies of the human body: How much padding, cushioning, embracing,…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“As we’ll see, a messy desk doesn’t always signal a messy mind”

— Sam Gosling

“there was a battered desk with its drawers open and askew, like a lady of the night with her heels kicked off and pantyhose…

— Jen Frederick

“Even the furniture made the most of the lack of supervision to move about.”

— Diane Setterfield

“The furniture would have missed you? Furniture's knowing all right. Not much gets past the things in a room, I daresay, and chairs and…

— Elizabeth Bowen