Furniture Quotes

This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.

They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.

It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.

I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

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 lifeless. It doesn’t have a soul. I hope my furniture has a soul to it.

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.

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 best sign you can put up is SOLD OUT.

Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment

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

Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.

Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.

Men do cry, but only when assembling furniture.

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

If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.

A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories.

I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

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 encumbering paraphenalia... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding.

The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.

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.

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

The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable.

I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.

Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.

To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.

I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.

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

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.

Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.

Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.

I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

No furniture is so charming as books.

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically, since I now live in capitalism. It was certainly 'realism', but in another form - the capitalist form, as it were. It wasn't meant that seriously. It was more a slogan for that particular Happening at a furniture store.

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture.

Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.

By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.

Furniture that is too obviously designed is very interesting, but too often belongs only in museums.

The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.

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