Furniture Quotes - Page 4

• Make sure furniture decor has similar scale. It's all about scale, proportion, measuring, being conscious of the overall plan.

  Michael S. Smith

  Conscious, Scales, Proportion

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.

  Ursula Andress

  Trying, Antiques, Hobbies

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• I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.

  Jung Chang

  Home, Past, Chinese

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• The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.

  Eric Church

  Towns, Industry

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• I love my dad. He used to walk around the whole neighborhood and collect old furniture and fix it, like MacGyver with duct tape. One time, he brought a television home. I said, 'Damn, that TV has 500 channels.' When I got older, it didn't have 500 channels - it was a knob from the oven. My favorite channel was 300 degrees.

  Felipe Esparza

  Dad, Home, Degrees

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• If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Nice, Pieces, Pay

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• Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Cat, People, Pet

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• Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Wedding, Second Chance, Hands

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• The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.

  Cindy Crawford

  Basketball, Strong, Horse

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

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• There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.

  Mary Margaret McBride

  Kids, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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• I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Certain

  Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Blue, Interesting

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2008). “Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930”, p.76, Princeton University Press

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• All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Pieces, Earth

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• Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.

  James Laver

  Clothes, Mind, Made

  James Laver (1949). “Style in costume”

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• My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.

  Pamela Anderson

  Relaxation, Junk, Upholstery

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• I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Falling In Love, Husband, Men

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• The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

  Donald Judd

  Attitude, Ideas, Tables

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Change, Wall, Artist

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• I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it.

  Debbie Allen

  Real, Use, World

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• They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

  John Ruskin

  Blame, Praise, Undeserving

  John Ruskin (1862). “pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty”, p.340

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• The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture finished and put inside boxes.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package.

  Jon Katz

  Dog, Kids, Rooms

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• I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization.

  Dave Grohl

  Yelling, Organization, Boss

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• When you're designing clothing, you really only have one point of focus, and that's the body. But home is fabrics and furniture and floors and natural light. If fashion is a planet, home is more like a universe.

  Betsey Johnson

  Fashion, Home, Light

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• Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Land, Lasts

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