Furniture Quotes - Page 19

• Just because I'm Native American doesn't mean I can track furniture through the wilderness." She deepened her voice: "'Yes, kemosabe. A three-legged table passed this way an hour ago.' Heck, I don’t know.

  Rick Riordan

  Native American, Mean, Voice

  "The Demigod Diaries (The Heroes of Olympus)". Book by Rick Riordan, August 14, 2012.

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• I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

  Emily Procter

  Pieces, Modern, Gals

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• Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

  Horace Mann

  Book, Giving, House

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

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• That's the trouble with the world we live in. It's full of people just doing their job and ignoring what's really going on. Care about the rainforest until they get a couple of kids and enough money for a gas guzzling car, or some hardwood dining furniture. Watch all those wildlife programmes and coo over the furry animals, but still eat meat and poultry that was raised in conditions of unbelievable cruelty.

  Robert Muchamore

  Jobs, Couple, Kids

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• The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

  Jacques Barzun

  Music, Names, Piano

  Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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• Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed, the way that a striated stone tumbled in a river feels irreducible, the way that this netsuke of a fox has become little more than a memory of a nose and a tail. But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing, and the way the leaves of my medlar shine.

  Edmund de Waal

  Memories, Two, Rivers

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• People are the common denominator of progress. So no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development. But we are coming to realize that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Education, Sea, People

  "Economic Development". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 2, 1962.

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• I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture.

  Steve Hamilton

  Champion, Sitting, Pieces

  Steve Hamilton (2010). “The Lock Artist: A Novel”, p.17, Macmillan

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• When I first became really interested in building furniture, I went to Toys-R-Us, and spent $200 on Transformers toys. By taking the toys apart and studying how they moved, I was able to figure out how to hide a table leaf, what type of contraption I'd need to slide it under the table. I'm a really visual learner.

  Jeremiah Brent

  Needs, Tables, Firsts

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Bullying, Reality, Views

  "Between Time and Timbuktu". Movie script by Kurt Vonnegut et al. Preface, 1972.

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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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• No: What the heck happened? Or: Why did you go from nearly kissing me to tossing me across your yard and into the patio furniture?

  Alyson Noel

  Kissing, Yards, Happened

  Alyson Noel (2010). “Dark Flame”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

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• Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and images (Television is furniture). I think a great play can only be a play. It fits the stage better than it fits the screen. Some stories insist on being film, can't be contained on stage. In the end, all writing serves to answer the same question: Why are we alive? And the form the question takes - play, film, novel - is dictated, I suppose, by whether its story is driven by character or place.

  Israel Horovitz

  Dream, Character, Writing

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• A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.

  Allen Johnson

  Thinking, History, Ignorant

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• It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Rooms, Chairs

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)”, p.238, Random House

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• When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent goes right to your stomach. Mary's house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace. For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.

  Adam Rapp

  Smell, Oatmeal, House

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• I already know how strong you are. You didn't have to break the furniture." —Bella Swan

  Stephenie Meyer

  Strong, Twilight, Swans

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• Great. So if I saw a guy standing still, and he wasn't wearing an old uniform, I just had to ask him to walk through furniture. If he stared at me like I was crazy, then I'd know he wasn't a ghost. - Chloe

  Kelley Armstrong

  Crazy, Guy, Chloe

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• I’ve tried that. I’ve tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle. What I’ve found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany’s. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. If I could find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany’s, then I’d buy some furniture and give the cat a name.

  Truman Capote

  Real, Nice, Cat

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• He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only a saddle, his rosary, and his books...The 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, Home, Sleep

  "Seabiscuit: An American Legend". Book by Laura Hillenbrand, 2001.

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