Furnishings Quotes

• When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.

  Zoë Heller

  Existence, Possession, Thinness

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• Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.

  J. G. Ballard

  Home, Fabric, Tvs

  J. G. Ballard (2005). “Conversations”, Re/Search Publications

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• The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good." This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Atheist, Real, Believe

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• Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

  Henry Ford

  Clothings, Household

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.10, 谷月社

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• Since sane people rarely surround themselves with furnishings which they personally find repellent, it is logical to assume that it will generate a bit of goodwill to enthuse about those they have.

  Anne Morice

  People, Assuming, Logical

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• The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.

  Louise Wilder

  Nature, Garden, Smell

  Louise Beebe Wilder (1990). “The fragrant path”, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

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• Much like the fortified wine that gives Marsala its name, this tasteful hue embodies the satisfying richness of a fulfilling meal, while its grounding red-brown roots emanate a sophisticated, natural earthiness. This hearty, yet stylish tone is universally appealing and translates easily to fashion, beauty, industrial design, home furnishings and interiors.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Fashion, Home, Wine

  "A Dress of a Different Color". Interview with Maureen Seaberg, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 2015.

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• To create an atmosphere dedicated to health..to present charming interiors that will attract maternity patients...to develop distinctive decoration and furnishings that can be installed at modest expenditure - and will require a minimum of maintenance costs.

  Dorothy Draper

  Design, Atmosphere, Cost

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• In China there was once a man who liked pictures of dragons, and his clothing and furnishings were all designed accordingly. His deep affection for dragons was brought to the attention of the dragon god, and onde day a real dragon appeared before his window. It is said that he died of fright. He was probably a man who always spoke big words but acted differently when facing the real thing.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Life, Real, Men

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2012). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.

  J. D. Salinger

  House, Valhalla, Manhattan

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• A lot of people worry about
  the ' wear and tear ' on furnishings.
  I feel it's more a matter
  of people treating the things that surround them
  with respect.

  Albert Hadley

  Worry, People, Tears

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• If we can say with Seneca, "This life is only a prelude to eternity," then we need not worry so much over the fittings and furnishings of this ante-room; and more than that, it will give dignity and purpose to the fleeting days to know they are linked with the eternal things as prelude and preparation.

  Minot Judson Savage

  Life, Giving, Worry

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• When the Duke [W.J.C. Scott-Bentinck] died, his heirs found all of the aboveground rooms devoid of furnishings except for one chamber in the middle of which sat the Duke's commode. The main hall was mysteriously floor less. Most of the rooms were painted pink. The one upstairs room in which the Duke had resided was packed to the ceiling with hundreds of green boxes, each of which contained a single dark brown wig. This was, in short, a man worth getting to know.

  Bill Bryson

  Dark, Men, Dukes

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• The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.

  Jasper Fforde

  Corporations, Goliath, Altruism

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

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• We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

  Robert Frost

  Garden, Order, Color

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• A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

  Louis L'Amour

  Home, Mind, Chance

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Bendigo Shafter”, p.97, Bantam

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• The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God.

  John Calvin

  House, Creation, Splendid

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