Furniture Quotes - Page 2

• Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

  Arnold Newman

  Photography, Moving, Talent

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• I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.

  Kevin McCloud

  Light, White, Space

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• I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

  Barbra Streisand

  Growing Up, Growing, Intense

  Barbra Streisand (2010). “My Passion for Design”, p.23, Penguin

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• All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

  George Berkeley

  Heaven, Mind, Body

  A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge pt. 1, sec. 6 (1710)

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• That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories.

  Joseph Roth

  Accessories, Found, Shows

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• Men do cry, but only when assembling furniture.

  Rita Rudner

  Men, Cry, Assembling

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• Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated by servants, and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character ... A good deal like human beings.

  Edna Ferber

  Beautiful, Real, Character

  EDNA FERBER (1958). “SHOW BOAT SO BIG CIMARRON”

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• No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Dog, Animal, Pet

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 17, 2010

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• I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

  Karen Morley

  Euthanasia, Tested, Ifs

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• Most furniture is not made for people - they are made for the people who sell them.

  Laura Huxley

  People, Made, Sells

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.

  Benjamin A. Rogge

  Men, Church, Classroom

  Benjamin A. Rogge (1979). “Can Capitalism Survive?”, Liberty Fund

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• Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155

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• I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Heavy, Dependable

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• I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Art, Objects

  "Ten Questions: Lisa Marie Fernandez". Interview with Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. August 14, 2012.

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• A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Business, Men, Brain

  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) "Five Orange Pips"

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• The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking

  "Brian Eno: Success ruins artists". Interview with David Mitchell, www.salon.com. October 1, 2011.

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• How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

  Wallace Stevens

  Rooms, Trifles, Pettiness

  "Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens" edited by Holly Stevens, (Ch. 9), 1977.

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• Even now, if I am thinking about spending a lot of money on clothing or furniture, I think 'I can't spend so much money on one thing; my poor old Daddy could have raised his family five years on that!'

  Dolly Parton

  Thinking, Years, Daddy

  "Q&A: Dolly Parton learned early that giving leads to getting". Interview with Chris Taylor, in.reuters.com. November 29, 2016.

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• Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.

  Anthea Turner

  Differences, Rearranging, Tweak

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• On Furnishing One's Home - Pick your furniture like you pick a wife; it should make you feel comfortable and look nice, but not so nice that if someone walks past it they want to steal it.

  Justin Halpern

  Nice, Home, Past

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• Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.

  Noel Coward

  Journey, Acting, Literature

  Quoted in Dick Richards, The Wit of Noel Coward (1968). According to Richards, Coward said this during the run of his play Nude with Violin (1956 - 1957). See Fontanne 1

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• I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

  Les Dawson

  Funny, Life, Hilarious

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

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• They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

  Christian Lacroix

  Design, Scandinavia, Clothings

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• I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

  Brad Pitt

  Design, Architecture, Scales

  "Brad Pitt Discusses His Furniture Collection in an Exclusive Interview". Interview with Stephen Wallis, www.architecturaldigest.com. November 30, 2012.

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• A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a bit like mixing a salade. (I am better at room than salads).

  Nancy Lancaster

  Design, Mixing, Mixtures

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