Furniture Quotes - Page 11

• Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simplicity, Thank God, Aids

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.48, Graphic Arts Books

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• Pray, for what do we move ever but to get rid of our furniture, our exuviæ; at last to go from this world to another newly furnished, and leave this to be burned?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Moving, Simplicity, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Henry David Thoreau: Walden”, p.64, Library of America

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• [C]ouches and chairs covered in scratches aim away from one another, making it possible for a dozen people to sit in this room at once and not have to talk to one other person, which is a miracle in furniture arrangement.

  Nova Ren Suma

  People, Miracle, Scratches

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

  Kelly Wearstler

  Fashion, Architecture, Designer

  Interview with Alyssa Shelasky, www.bonappetit.com. January 23, 2013.

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• Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

  Alan Chadwick

  Common Sense, Stories, Pieces

  Alan Chadwick (2008). “Performance in the Garden: A Collection of Talks on Biodynamic French Intensive Horticulture”, Logosophia

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• My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture.

  Anne Hathaway

  Passion, Years, Goal

  "Anne Hathaway learns from a legend in 'Prada'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. June 21, 2006.

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

  Massimo Vignelli

  Color, Legs, Thickness

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I jog at the Rose Bowl, and I collect antique and vintage furniture, so I'm there every few weeks for the flea market.

  Theo Rossi

  Vintage, Rose, Antiques

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• Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write.

  Danielle Steel

  Wall, Writing, Animal

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• It is curious, isn't it, that things you know well never look dirty and dilapidated-other people's old furniture looks shabby and moth-eaten. “I would never have that horrible old couch in my room,” you say. But your own old couch is every bit as bad and you are not disgusted with its appearance; it is your friend, you see, and you remember it when it was new and smart. Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.

  D.E. Stevenson

  Smart, Dirty, Long

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• I really liked the design aesthetic of the mid-century modern for furniture and the early '60s stuff for the clothes. But then, personally, I'm a huge fan of 1970s muscle cars. Cell phones is just a laziness thing because it's so much easier to have somebody have a cell phone than have to go to a phone booth. So we're sort of, I guess, cherry-picking the best and easiest from several decades.

  Adam Reed

  Phones, Cells, Clothes

  Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.

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• Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.

  Rafael Vinoly

  Fashion, Philosophy, Thinking

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• The citric acid in lemon juice makes it perfect for bleaching, disinfecting and cutting through grease. And olive oil is a great alternative to furniture polish.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Cutting, Oil, Perfect

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• People buy very badly made furniture and fabric. Instead, buy a beautiful dining table, well-made upholstery. It's almost like dressing for success.

  Michael S. Smith

  Beautiful, People, Dining

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I think the relationship [in Aquarius] with her nephew shows that she's not nostalgic. She just wants to preserve what is important to her - her records, her books, even some furniture. She doesn't want to leave that house because it is her home. That is where her kids were born. After moving so much in my life, I was touched by Clara's need to stay in that apartment. I love her life, and that may be why I connected to her so strongly. We are the most alike when we are fighting for our rights.

  Sonia Braga

  Moving, Book, Kids

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• When you look at things like social media, that's an immensely powerful tool that I'm all in favor of. I think it's amazing. It's a powerful tool, and it's one that we're, as a species, still grappling with learning to use. It's like we've grown an extra tail and we inadvertently lash out and knock over all of the furniture.

  Charlie Brooker

  Powerful, Thinking, Media

  Source: collider.com

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• In my head, my business is architecture and furniture; it's 70 percent Prouvé, and Corbusier, Royer, Jeanneret - they all passed away. So it's retrospective, I'm looking back.

  Patrick Seguin

  Passed Away, Architecture, Percent

  "A Collector’s Carte Blanche". Interview with Nate Lowman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2016.

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• I've read about all the sales today. If you're an auto dealer, you're feeling it. If you're a furniture retailer like we are, you're feeling it. If you're a jewelry retailer, you're feeling it. I know some of these businesses because we're in them. Yeah, it's being felt, but it will be felt big time more if we don't do something about it, what's going on.

  Warren Buffett

  Feelings, Today, Jewelry

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I have over 5000 costumes, and the furniture and memorabilia that goes with them.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Costumes, Memorabilia, Over 50

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I saw certain things that I think maybe other kids are protected from. Like, I saw my parents struggling. I knew that we were cutting out coupons and buying dented cans because they were cheaper. And all our furniture was from the garbage. It was just - and to me because I was a kid, all that stuff was really exciting.

  Regina Spektor

  Struggle, Kids, Cutting

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I would tell to young people to sit on their heels. Children do that naturally so if they never had furniture they would do it. It's wonderful for all parts of the body.

  Laura Huxley

  Children, People, Body

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• This region [North Carolina] used to be the furniture manufacturing hub of the world. I know because I bought plenty. But the NAFTA deal and then China's entry into the World Trade Organization, another Bill[Clinton] and Hillary[Clinton] backed disaster, have sent those jobs to other countries.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Organization

  Source: time.com

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• [Shoji] Hamada's [drawings] were little one-line notations of something he wanted to remember about a pot or a piece of furniture or a landscape or something like that, and they were just done very quickly and they had, he thought, no artistic quality. They're not great drawings, but they served to remind him of something he had in his mind, so that when he then went to the studio, that would stick in his mind and he could explore the making of the pot with the clay on the wheel.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Drawing, Mind, Quality

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• For instance, [Adolf Hitler] would never have spent the night at the Widenmayerstraße apartment. He visited it before we moved the furniture in, he visited maybe 4 times afterwards and he never spent the entire night.

  Gretl Braun

  Night, Apartment, Instance

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• I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up.

  Paul Smith

  Book, Technique, Kind

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