Decorating Quotes - Page 2

• On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.

  Katherine Paterson

  Running, War, Towns

  Katherine Paterson (2003). “Preacher's Boy”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Passion, Want, Has Beens

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• My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.

  Candace Bushnell

  Skills, Barns, Pottery

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• When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.

  Pippa Middleton

  Children, Weekend, Tree

  "Celebrate: A Year of Festivities for Families and Friends". Book by Pippa Middleton, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.

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• I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!

  Johnny Vegas

  Illumination, House, Obsessed

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• All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.

  Warren Zevon

  Life, Thinking, Dancing

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• Maybe the purchasing and the making and the wrapping and the decorating - those delightfully generous and important expressions of our love at Christmas - should be separated, if only slightly, from the more quiet, personal moments when we consider the meaning of the Baby (and his birth) who prompts the giving of such gifts.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Christmas, Baby, Expression

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• Decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

  Albert Hadley

  Views, Looks, Point Of View

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• I'm decorating my parents' house for Christmas... I hope they find my manger with a baby yeezus in it as funny as I do!

  Lisa Lampanelli

  Baby, Women, House

  FaceBook post by Lisa Lampanelli from Dec 17, 2013

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• I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!

  Joe Nichols

  Christmas, Thanksgiving, Football

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• I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Inspirational, Dance, Writing

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• Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from 'Ace of Cakes' at Duff's Charm City Cakes. It's, like, 4 three-hour classes.

  Busy Philipps

  Cake, Class, Cities

  "Busy Philipps: Reality Show Wunderkind". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. January 22, 2013.

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• Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off. Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final defence of the dying. (252)

  Suzanne Collins

  Cake, Katniss, Dying

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• We followed the bondage Bobbsey Twins across the crowded dance floor. Those leather shorts were an adventure from behind, let me tell you. And the pictures of Elvis decorating the walls were an education, too. It wasn’t often you ran into a bondage/Elvis/ whorehouse-themed vampire club.

  Charlaine Harris

  Wall, Adventure, Vampire

  Charlaine Harris (2011). “Dead Reckoning: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.59, Penguin

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• We’re vampires,” he said. “Not fairies.” “Sometimes I’m not so sure about that. You see that study your king hangs out in?” “He’s nearly blind.” “Which explains why he hasn’t hanged himself in that pastel train wreck.” “I thought you were bitching about the gloom-and-doom decorating?” “I free-associate.

  J.R. Ward

  Kings, Train Wrecks, Vampire

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.252, Penguin

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• I’d want our wedding to be special. I don’t have a dress, you don’t have a best man, and instead of flowers, we have corpses on poles decorating the front of the house.” “Flowers are on the way, as is my best man, three seamstresses are ready to make any dress you desire, and I’ll have the corpses taken down,” he replied without missing a beat.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Flower, Taken, Men

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• A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Home, Learning, School

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• Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women to re-negotiate our understanding of the world so that we can become a full and equal part of it rather than just a means of decorating it; to move towards a place where the mere act of being a girl isn't used against us as both a threat and an obligation. Through feminism, I have found a peace of sorts from the sense that my femaleness required a constant apology so that I might be given permission to pass through these narrow corridors.

  Clementine Ford

  Girl, Hurt, Women

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• Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone’s little home.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Home, Views

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• I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I've always dreamed about decorating my baby's nursery.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Girl, Baby, Nurse

  "Rebecca Romijn Gives Birth to Twin Girls". www.foxnews.com. January 5, 2009.

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• I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.

  Max Greenfield

  Christmas, Stars, Wife

  "The GQA: Max Greenfield". Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. January 10, 2011.

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• She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Schemes, Wanted

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• I like interior decorating. I really like to build houses. And landscaping, I like that.

  Ester Dean

  House, Landscaping, Interiors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Car, Gardening

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• I also love real estate and decorating.

  Deana Carter

  Real, Estates

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