Furniture Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ... 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

  Wallis Simpson

  Moving, Reflection, Air

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• there is something dangerous about mirrors. ... What dynamite we handle when we lift a mirror or bend towards one! I seldom do.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Mirrors, Dangerous, Dynamite

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• Parents who want a fresh point of view on their furniture are advised to drop down on all fours and accompany the nine or ten month old on his rounds. It is probably many years since you last studied the underside of a dining room chair. The ten month old will study this marvel with as much concentration and reverence as a tourist in the Cathedral of Chartres.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Views, Years, Parent

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for
  f-k all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.

  Eddie Izzard

  Europe, Turkeys, Empires

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• Take the Long Way Home is a song that I wrote that's on two levels - on one level I'm talking about not wanting to go home to the wife, 'take the long way home' because she treats you like part of the furniture. But there's a deeper level to the song, too. I really believe we all want to find our true home, find that place in us where we feel at home, and to me, home is in the heart. When we’re in touch with our heart and we're living our life from our heart, then we do feel like we found our home.

  Roger Hodgson

  Song, Believe, Home

  FaceBook post by Roger Hodgson from Nov 12, 2015

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• I came up to New York at 20 with a suitcase and a ceramic tiger. That was my one piece of furniture and I wanted to save it.

  Rex Smith

  New York, Ceramics, Pieces

  "New again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2015.

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• I hate the word "eclectic" .I'm a classicist, and I like comfort. Lots of books, lots of artwork, pieces of family furniture, and newer upholstery.

  Tim Gunn

  Hate, Book, Comfort

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• I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Hurt, Humor

  "Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra". Comedy, Music, May 9, 2009.

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• When I was growing up in Baltimore, the Colts were not just a team that played in the city. It was part of the city. Football players didn't make close to the money they make today and most took jobs in the off-season. Some were mechanics, others worked at furniture stores, and you could find them drinking at a neighborhood watering hole.

  Barry Levinson

  Football, Jobs, Growing Up

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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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• I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors background, so I'm not an expert. I just enjoy going to antiques shows and finding interesting things.

  Jason Wu

  Interesting, Mixing, Experts

  "Jason Wu Makes His Move into Home". Interview with Anne Monoky, www.architecturaldigest.com. October 31, 2011.

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• I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.

  Aerin Lauder

  Book, Rooms, Objects

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• This can be one of cheerfulness or gloom because color which is so inexpensive, is what does the trick. Not color alone but color plus imaginative lighting and cleverly grouping of the furniture. You say you have an old lobby that nothing much can be done with? Oh yes it can!

  Dorothy Draper

  Color, Doe, Done

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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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• Now that I'm a mom, I'm way more laid back. If you come into my house, don't look for a coaster. Forget it. There is not a piece of furniture in my house now that is too precious.

  Angela Kinsey

  Mom, House, Laid Back

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• Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Home, Covering

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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