Furniture Quotes - Page 5

• Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.

  Billy Casper

  Age, Aging, Problem

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• There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man

  George Nakashima

  Mean, Men, Tree

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• Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life. They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them.

  Terence Conran

  Attitude, People, Stuff

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

  Milo

  Museums, Interesting, Very Interesting

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• I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.

  Ty Pennington

  Kids, Drawing, Legs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Friends, Responsibility, Thinking

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• 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!

  Jim Rohn

  Entrepreneur, Library, Three

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 12, 2016

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• The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable.

  Robert K. Merton

  Running, Risk, Mind

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• Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture,
  A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.

  John Ashbery

  Death, Wise, Office

  John Ashbery (2011). “The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems”, p.58, Wesleyan University Press

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• A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

  Jane Austen

  World

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1422, Ageless Reads

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• Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Moving, Inspiration

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• No furniture is so charming as books.

  Sydney Smith

  Book, Reading, Charming

  Quoted in Lady Holland, Memoir (1855)

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• I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture.

  Carrie Fisher

  Falling In Love, Heart, Emotional

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• The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Men, Boys, Interesting

  Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Alta: Joust #2”, p.170, Penguin

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• Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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

  Rick Riordan

  Names, Percy Jackson And The Olympians, Frank

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• People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, People, House

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• Trees are very good friends. Firm friends. My five year olds tree could be relied upon to be there next day, uncritical and protective. And think of trees contribution to our lives. They provide boats, buildings, paper, furniture and, for clog-wearers, footwear. As well as contributing toothpicks and chopsticks they give little birdies somewhere comfy to sit. Best of all, they help produce breathable air and lock up that naughty carbon. Why is why I am talking to the Greens about giving trees the vote.

  Phillip Adams

  Good Friend, Naughty, Thinking

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• Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may be catalogued for purposes of education, they may be illustrated by arresting experiments, by numbers and magnitudes which startle or fatigue the imagination but they will form no familiar portion of the intellectual furniture of ordinary men unless they be connected, however remotely, with the conduct of ordinary life.

  Arthur Balfour

  Education, Science, Men

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• 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.

  Sam Maloof

  Perfection, Soul, Technique

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• I make very basic country rustic furniture.

  Thomas Middleditch

  Country, Rustic

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• Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Doors, Pieces

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.45, Macmillan

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• That furniture cost me a fortune! It's designer furniture." "Designed by whom ? Darth Vader ? The Hitler Youth ?

  Jennifer Crusie

  Cost, Youth, Designer

  Jennifer Crusie (2010). “The Cinderella Deal”, p.109, Bantam

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• Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.

  Alfred Lunt

  Art, Voice, Theatre

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• The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

  Olivier Theyskens

  People, Design, Way

  Interview with Milena Canonero, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 19, 2011.

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