Furniture Quotes - Page 15

• The Pantechnicon stored and distributed a good deal of furniture as well. The very idea of a lady of good breeding visiting such a place. There would be tables lying about, on their sides, naked! Not to mention flaccid dirigibles! Alexia shuddered at the very idea.

  Gail Carriger

  Lying, Ideas, Naked

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• It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Moving, Obesity

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• I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

  Zaha Hadid

  Museums, Pedestal, Reason

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• The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, 'Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.' Which is a non-thought.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mean, Space, Grandparent

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• Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on a languid tide of curiosity... Somewhere behind them, in the background of their lives there was doubtless a real past, yet they had no more real existence than the poet's shades in limbo.

  Edith Wharton

  Real, Past, Atmosphere

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• My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece of lumber is a work of art, after all, and I'd like to honor that gift and pass it on for someone else to appreciate.

  Steve Miller

  Art, Simple, Appreciate

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• Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

  Barbra Streisand

  Design, Special, Architect

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• I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from clever arts, I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth,I say you have to give up! I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may!

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Art, Giving Up, Clever

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• The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Flower, Heart, Dust

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• Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture.

  Terry Pratchett

  Memories, Mind, Kicking

  "Is The Colour of Magic a good introduction to Terry Pratchett?" by Sam Jordison, www.theguardian.com. May 05, 2015.

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• I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate: Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass Hang all the furniture above the grass, And how delightful when a fall of snow Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so As to make chair and bed exactly stand Upon that snow, out in that crystal land!

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Fall, Dark, Night

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• I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.

  Barbara Mertz

  Moving, Knowing, Effort

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• It's trust issue more than anything. I mean, whats stopping them from teaming up, dressing up like a really tall person in a trenchcoat, and then BAM. They sneak out with all your furniture

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Dressing Up, Issues

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• Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends.

  James Thurber

  Old School, Light, Car

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.150, Library of America

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• I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mind, Three, Pieces

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.

  Frank Gehry

  Book, Home, Lamps

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• She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

  Arundhati Roy

  Cleansing, Genocide, Threat

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.28, Penguin Books India

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• Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds.

  Elihu Burritt

  Knowledge, Hands, Law

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• I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Shoes, Tempted, Hideous

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• I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.

  Mary Karr

  Order, Years, Clothes

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• I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Running, Play, Hair

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Over You, Sorrow

  "The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949, Choiceless awareness".

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• A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.

  Quentin Crisp

  Gentleman, Sitting, Pieces

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• They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark").

  Miranda July

  Empty Rooms, House, Together

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.

  Anais Nin

  Illumination, Space, Tree

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