Music Quote by Sean Gandert

With its orange carpets and bright flowery curtains, our house was super-fashionable in the 70s. It was like the set for a real-life 'Abigail's…

— Michaela Strachan

“The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset. It was built…

— G.K. Chesterton

I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame, really -…

— Andy Serkis

“The daylight shouldered its way in like a squad of policemen and did a lot of what’s-all-thising around the room, which, like the bedroom,…

— Douglas Adams

“They had no children. They spent money on the house, and for five years it went through an elaborate series of new looks each…

— Niall Williams

“The house was a vast labyrinth of books. Volumes were stacked from floor to ceiling on every wall, dark, crackling, redolent of leather bindings,…

— Isabel Allende

“THe room was large and low-ceilinged, the striped wallpaper faded to inoffensiveness. A huge dark wardrobe faced a huge dark bed. The rest of…

— Jean Rhys

“Youth is a terrible thing: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and fancy costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe…

— Milan Kundera

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building…

— Anna Quindlen

“The exhibition gobsmacked me. I'm not ashamed to admit it. Here was quite a small building, not many people about, getting little attention. And…

— Jonathan Gash

“From an as of yet untitled work: '“Come on,” he guided her towards a diner down the street where throngs of young people ebbed…

— Susan Simone

“I loved my bedroom... the vanity with the warped mirror, the squat chairs without armrests, the elaborate, oriental dressing screen. I loved curving my…

— April Genevieve Tucholke