Furniture Quotes - Page 12

• If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sports, Jobs, Real

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting up new ones, and buying new pieces of art.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Art, Pieces, Buying

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small.

  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

  Fashion, Ferrari, Ends

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• I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Art, Wall, Thinking

  "Ellen DeGeneres is in the house". Interview with Mary Cadden, www.usatoday.com. January 25, 2015.

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• I love furniture. And I thought, why are we not seeing who's making the cool new coffee table and these new designs that come out?

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Coffee, Design, Tables

  "Ellen DeGeneres is in the house". Interview with Mary Cadden, www.usatoday.com. January 25, 2015.

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• No one with a living room radio that was a piece of furniture at the time would say, gee. I want to carry that around on my hip pocket. That was not a thought until NASA initiated this whole exercise. So there's an influence that's not just spinoff.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Exercise, Radio, Rooms

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• When I am doing things around the house - when I'm decorating, setting up furniture, putting out a vase of flowers, lighting my candles, my mind is always thinking, "What do I need to do to make this space peaceful and restful and comfortable so that when people walk into it, aesthetically they're heightened and enlightened?"

  Evangeline Lilly

  Flower, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I try never to say no when it comes to creativity, but I do try and lead down an "appropriate road" - like not on furniture or the walls.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Wall, Creativity, Trying

  "This Is the Secret to Letting Your Kid Get Messy Without Losing It". Interview with Kate Schweitzer, www.popsugar.com. March 2, 2016.

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• It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know. I came out of the womb drawing on everything; I used to draw on my mother's white furniture and her white walls with her red lipstick and my pencils. Little did she know that would later materialize into me doing what I do now - I'm a painter as well and a micromechanical engineer.

  Aldis Hodge

  Mother, Wall, Crazy

  "Aldis Hodge Emerges from the Underground". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 7, 2016.

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• Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the citizens of Antioch. The arts of luxury were honoured; the serious and manly virtues were the subject of ridicule; and the contempt for female modesty and reverent age announced the universal corruption of the capital of the East.

  Edward Gibbon

  Fashion, Art, Luxury

  Edward Gibbon (1860). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.174

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• I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he always had this metaphor of an egg, of a little chick pecking her way out of a shell, and in one scene in the kitchen there are all these white plates on a wall and then in the middle there is a yellow plate so even that looks like an egg. And a lot of the furniture was almost sculpted in that way as well. It was really cool to see that.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Wall, Character, Eggs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• ... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

  George Eliot

  World, Dinner, Absence

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2255, Delphi Classics

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• When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Style, Cabins, Littles

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• Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.

  Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

  Children, Wall, Faces

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• I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.

  Nate Berkus

  Block, Kids, Thinking

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• What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

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• The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist (our friends being friends only in the light of an agreeable folly which travels with us through life and to which we readily accommodate ourselves, but which at the bottom of our hearts we know to be no more reasonable than the delusion of the man who talks to the furniture because he believes that it is alive.).

  Marcel Proust

  Giving Up, Believe, Heart

  Marcel Proust (1970). “The past recaptured”, Random House (NY)

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• Deep practice feels a bit like exploring a dark and unfamiliar room. You start slowly, you bump into furniture, stop, think, and start again. Slowly, and a little painfully, you explore the space over and over, attending to errors, extending your reach into the room a bit farther each time, building a mental map until you can move through it quickly and intuitively.

  Daniel Coyle

  Moving, Dark, Thinking

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• I got my career start by first creating my own free, independent lifestyle in my own house out in the country. There I taught myself to make and later design furniture. I have continued to go my own way, always consciously needing to feel that I am moving forward.

  David Trubridge

  Country, Moving, Independent

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• A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

  Anne Perry

  Dream, Mind, Library

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• Surprise parties are strange 'cause people jump up and they yell the word, 'surprise' at the party. I came home and you emerged from my furniture. You don't have to tell me how to feel. I don't need a hint.

  Demetri Martin

  Party, Home, People

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• I believe that a negative statement is poison.I'm convinced that the negative has power. It lives. And if you allow it to perch in your house, in your mind, in your life, it can take you over. So when the rude or cruel thing is said - the lambasting, the gay bashing, the hate - I say, "Take it all out of my house!" Those negative words climb into the woodwork and into the furniture, and the next thing you know they'll be on my skin.

  Maya Angelou

  Hate, Believe, Gay

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• Some women want the strong silent type, so they can tell him to shut up and rearrange the furniture.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Strong, Want, Shut Up

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• Directing is a reactionary job more than a creation job. The job is to react whether it's moment one, the first time you read the script or see an article or read a book or notice something happen on the street and have an idea for a movie, and it just continues from there on in. You're just reacting to dialogue, a performance, an audition, a headache, a piece of furniture, a piece of clothing.

  Jason Reitman

  Jobs, Book, Ideas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's quite an experience to have filming done in your house. When they come in, they photograph every piece of furniture and where it is so they can get them back exactly where you had them. You'd never know they'd been here.

  Doris Day

  House, Done, Pieces

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