Sofas Quotes

• Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

  Le Corbusier

  Architecture, Chairs, Bourgeois

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• What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

  Anthony Trollope

  Coffee, Book, Earth

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.295, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• The hardest distance is always from the sofa to the front door

  Erki Nool

  Encouragement, Distance, Doors

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• I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Book, Reading, Alive

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• On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.

  Tom Robbins

  Fall, People, Spices

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.19, Bantam

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• Necessity invented stools,
  Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs,
  And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last.

  William Cowper

  Luxury, Elbows, Lasts

  William Cowper (1852). “Poems”, p.159

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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 sofa is the enemy of productivity.

  Demetri Martin

  Enemy, Productivity

  Twitter post from Dec 26, 2012

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• To have a 9-foot sofa in a small room can be kind of treacherous.

  Michael S. Smith

  Small Rooms, Feet, Be Kind

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Ideology

  "City Aphorisms: Third Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1986.

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• I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Comfort, Want, Intimate

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories”, p.124

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• Why don’t you come up and have a little ... scotch and sofa?

  Mae West

  Scotch, Littles, Come Up

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• I'm capable of living in the moment. And I'm especially capable of living in the moment of sitting on my sofa and watching other people's moments.

  Samantha Bee

  People, Live In The Moment, Sitting

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• Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

  Charles Darwin

  Nice, Book, Fire

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.219, NYU Press

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• Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

  Harold MacMillan

  Future, Past, People

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• You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Couple, Years, Issues

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.44, Random House

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• I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

  Shirley Conran

  Lying, Chores, Housework

  Shirley Conran (1978). “Superwoman”, Outlet

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• So many programs you watch on the sofa,
  But the real program sit on top of your shoulders.

  One Be Lo

  Real, Rap, Hip Hop

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• Never put sofas against wall.

  Robert Denning

  Wall

  "The Sweet Smell of Excess" by Patricia Volk, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2006.

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• Get off your sofa and pick your jawbones off the floor, that was a world-class save.

  Ray Hudson

  Class, World, Picks

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• People think, 'Oh, I'm loving myself by sitting on this sofa for four hours.' Love yourself enough to get up!

  Alison Sweeney

  Love Yourself, Thinking, People

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• it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

  Jane Austen

  Laziness, Youth, Tricks

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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• I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Reading, Night

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.61, Random House

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• You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one.

  Nate Berkus

  Couple, Cozy, Classic

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• I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars.

  Sia Furler

  Dog, Home, Office

  "Singer Sia opens up about her addiction to painkillers and alcoholism in Billboard magazine" by Zoe Shenton, www.mirror.co.uk. October 28, 2013.

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