Decorating Quotes

• The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.

  Deborah Needleman

  Backgrounds, I Can

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• No matter what our decorating style - realized or aspired to the essential spiritual grace our home should possess is the solace of comfort.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Spiritual, Home, Grace

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, p.61, Random House

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• If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

  Sylvester Stallone

  Tree, Body, Offense

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• I bought a house, and I've been decorating it

  Charlie Hunnam

  House

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• I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Thinking, Independent Bookstores

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.119, Ballantine Books

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• Decorating in relation to hotels is really nothing more than planned showmanship or the art of attracting attention in a delightful way and thus creating an increased consumer acceptance. It gives the guest the feeling of anticipation, excitement, expectancy, delight, and pride in the management of his favorit hotel.

  Dorothy Draper

  Art, Pride, Acceptance

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• Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now.

  Picabo Street

  Friendship, House, Growth

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• I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?

  Ian St John

  Christmas, Garden, Awards

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• Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Independent Bookstores, Reading Books

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.114, Ballantine Books

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• I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with

  Suzy Bogguss

  Home, Garden, Play

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• I don't think of decorating as a science or a discipline. People always say start with the rug, but it is often the last thing I end up selecting. I begin with whatever makes my heart sing.

  Deborah Buck

  Heart, Thinking, Discipline

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• Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.

  Nirmalananda

  Men, Society, Cages

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• Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating.

  Albert Hadley

  Home, Interior Design, Attractive

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• What a house. Turns out they're doing OK, the Malfoy's. However, the interior decorating leaves a lot to be desired. And needless to say, Voldemort isn't the greatest houseguest.

  Tom Felton

  House, Turns, Malfoy

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• Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.

  Albert Hadley

  Creating, Soul, Quality

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• The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.

  Duff Goldman

  Kids, Eye, Cake

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• Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

  Charlotte Moss

  Math, Games, Design

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• You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.

  Philippe Starck

  Happy, Depression, Color

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• It's important to pull tons of pieces! If you have lots of options to choose from, you can play around and see that things that you wouldn't originally have expected to work together actually do! That applies to both clothing and decorating.

  Jeremiah Brent

  Play, Working Together, Important

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

  Antonin Scalia

  Rocks, Psychology, Interiors

  Antonin Scalia (2012). “Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice”, p.141, Regnery Publishing

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• My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that's obviously modern with it. You can't put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle.

  Nate Berkus

  Style, Favorites Things, Mixing

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• Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason.

  Sister Parish

  Rooms, Reason, Attractive

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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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• 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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• 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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