Furniture Quotes - Page 17

• Ever come home and found your room messed up? Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "clean" it, and suddenly you can't find anything? And even if nothing is missing, you get that creepy feeling like somebody's been looking through your private stuff and dusting everything with lemon furniture polish?

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Home, Missing

  "Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters". Book by Rick Riordan, April 1, 2006.

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• But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

  Raymond Carver

  Worry, Anxiety, Legs

  Raymond Carver (2015). “Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories”, p.405, Vintage

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• His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Book, Men, Way

  Laura Hillenbrand (2003). “Seabiscuit: An American Legend”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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• A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him.

  Malcolm Cowley

  Lying, Past, Men

  MALCOLM COWLEY (1967). “Think Back on Us”

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• I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but I don’t know why they’d decided to confine its purpose just to sitting. Obviously, sitting was one of the things you could do in a room this size; but you could also stage operas, hold cycling races, and have an absolutely cracking game of frisbee, all at the same time, without having to move any of the furniture. It could rain in a room this big.

  Hugh Laurie

  Rain, Moving, Cycling

  Hugh Laurie (1998). “The Gun Seller”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

  Anton Chekhov

  Feelings, Pieces, World

  Anton Chekhov (2004). “The Shooting Party”, p.236, Penguin UK

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• She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full.

  Katherine Howe

  Fall, Sky, Space

  Katherine Howe (2010). “The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.

  C. S. Lewis

  Moving, Sunshine, Looks

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza iwth roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shard an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.

  Daniel Suarez

  Sneakers, Office, Might

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• Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.

  Learned Hand

  Upset, Taste, Patterns

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Lying, Grief

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2011). “We Shall See God: Charles Spurgeon's Classic Devotional Thoughts on Heaven”, p.298, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

  Benjamin Rush

  House, Bipolar, Extravagance

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• I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. [...] It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. [...] It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wall, Mistake, Men

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.13, ebookspub

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• I can tell by your eye shadow, you're from Brooklyn, right? . . . Me too. My mother has plastic covers on all the furniture. Even the poodle. Looked like a barking hassock walking down the street.

  Elayne Boosler

  Mother, Women, Home

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• Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first room and it's dark, completely dark. You stumble around, bumping into the furniture. Gradually, you learn where each piece of furniture is. And finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch and turn it on. Suddenly, it's all illuminated and you can see exactly where you were. Then you enter the next dark room.

  Andrew Wiles

  Dark, Light, Pieces

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• SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.

  Patrick Califia

  Art, Clothes, Sms

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• If I could find a real life place to make me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name.

  Holly Golightly

  Real, Cat, Names

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• To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Ikea, Design, Cost

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• The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.

  Robertson Davies

  Weed, Book, Mind

  Robertson Davies (2002). “For Your Eye Alone: The Letters of Robertson Davies”, Penguin Group USA

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• And this Atlantean Destroyer is now leading the Daimons and sending them out to battle against Acheron, who is just using us and the humans as cannon fodder to protect himself? Really, Kyros, put down the crack pipe...or go write children’s fantasy novels. I’ll bet you even know exactly who conspired to kill Kennedy, huh? I’m sure the money from D.B. Cooper is what financed your stunning collection of furniture. (Danger)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Children, Writing, Fantasy Novels

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• You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your desk are arranged in precise corners. If I had to guess, I would say you are probably a control freak, and that is usually symptomatic of a man who feels powerless to control his own life, so he tries to control every facet of his surroundings.

  Judith McNaught

  Wall, Men, Trying

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Someone to Watch Over Me: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.

  Mason Cooley

  Moving, Cooking, Privacy

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• A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Fashion, Book, Successful

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.586, e-artnow

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• It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.

  Alain de Botton

  Home, Self, Encounters

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• My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

  Jonathan Ive

  Father, Incredibles, Craftsman

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