Furniture Quotes - Page 8

• I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.

  Zaha Hadid

  Thinking, Ideas, Design

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• No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this [digital] stuff.

  Terence McKenna

  Stuff, Digital, Artifacts

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• A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

  E. W. Howe

  Motivation, Fire, Loafers

  "Ventures in Common Sense". Book by Edgar Watson Howe, p. 171, 1919.

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• And last, my mom. I don’t think you know what you did. You had my brother when you were 18 years old. Three years later, I came out. The odds were stacked against us. Single parent with two boys by the time you were 21 years old. Everybody told us we weren’t supposed to be here. We went from apartment to apartment by ourselves. One of the best memories I had was when we moved into our first apartment, no bed, no furniture and we just sat in the living room and just hugged each other. We thought we made it.

  Kevin Durant

  Mom, Brother, Memories

  Kevin Durant's MVP Acceptance Speech, newsok.com. May 13, 2014.

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• Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Wall, Miracle, Atheism

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• Men don't live well by themselves. They don't even live like people. They live like bears with furniture.

  Rita Rudner

  Men, People, Bears

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• All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!

  George Eliot

  Writing, Errors, Window

  George Eliot (1955). “The George Eliot Letters: 1874-1877”

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• ... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year.

  Phyllis Diller

  Children, Writing, Dust

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• Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.

  Anne Tyler

  Moving, Years, Names

  Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

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• No one chair should be isolated.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Chairs, Should, Isolated

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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• When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.

  Emilio Pucci

  Men, Airports, Needs

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• Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Pieces, Television

  Pauline Kael (1996). “Raising Kane and Other Essays”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.

  Donalyn Miller

  Teacher, Reading, Expectations

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• We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Strong, Cutting, Men

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.370, Xist Publishing

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• I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!

  Peter Mullan

  Hate, Grandmother, People

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• However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Character, Stories, Duration

  "Furniture" by Johnathan Lethem, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.

  Peter York

  Art, Class, Symbolism

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• What was I drinking last night? Furniture polish?

  Paul O'Grady

  Drinking, Night, Lasts

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• Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Wall, Eye, Reality

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• I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Tantrums, Persons

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• Someone has described the modern American as a person who drives a bank financed car over a bond financed highway on credit card gas to open a charge account at a department store so he can fill his savings and loan financed home with installment purchased furniture. may this also be a description of many modern professed Christians? And may this not be one reason why modern Christians have so little time to pray? Importunity combined with perfect faith in unconquerable!

  Paul Billheimer

  Christian, Prayer, Home

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• It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; and judge of them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for profession and another for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Practice, Judging, Bed

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture paid for, or a retirement fund, and never is it another person. It is the skill and humor and courage within, the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.

  Audrey Sutherland

  Retirement, Jobs, Real

  Audrey Sutherland (1978). “Paddling my own canoe”, Kolowalu Book

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• I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.

  Olivia Newton-John

  House, Design, Kitchen

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• Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour of an industrious and ingenious people was variously, but incessantly employed, in the service of the rich. In their dress, their table, their houses, and their furniture, the favourites of fortune united every refinement of conveniency, of elegance, and of splendour, whatever could soothe their pride or gratify their sensuality.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Pride, Agriculture

  Edward Gibbon (1841). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1: With Maps”, p.33

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