Furniture Quotes - Page 6

• It is not enough just to open the door to the rooms of power. We have to get inside and rearrange the furniture!

  Gertrude Mongella

  Doors, Rooms, Enough

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• Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Fashion, Art, Construction Sites

  Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.216, U of Nebraska Press

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• Difference between diversity and inclusion is being invited to a house and being able to rearrange the furniture.

  Jane Silber

  Differences, Diversity, House

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• If I gave this guy more time, there would be a swimming pool and rattan furniture.

  Joe Teti

  Swimming, Guy, Survival

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• Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Design Work, Special, Pieces

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I did buy a new piece of furniture so it's like, "Oh, that's something new." But generally my goals are made in the fall.

  Jen Kirkman

  Fall, Goal, Pieces

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.

  Salman Rushdie

  Long, Shame, Enough

  "Tell your crush how you feel - it may be relevant information" by Nell Frizzell, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2015.

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• No one knows why, but second only to eating the brains of the living, the dead love affordable prefab furniture.

  Christopher Moore

  Brain, Eating, Affordable

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• Think of how much furniture you need. What's the best way to have it be functional in a great way? If it's in groups, define it.

  Michael S. Smith

  Thinking, Groups, Needs

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

  Benjamin Franklin

  House, Want, Blind

  Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of essays, humorous, moral, and literary: with his life, written by himself”, p.227, S. Andrus

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• I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.

  Frank Gehry

  Hands, Woodworking, Made

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It's beautiful.

  Terence McKenna

  Beautiful, Moving, Style

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• Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?

  Diana Vreeland

  Gay, Glasses, Color

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• Houses without personality are a series of walled enclosures with furniture standing around in them. Other houses are filled with things of little intrinsic value, even with much that is shabby and yet they have that inviting atmosphere.

  Emily Post

  House, Personality, Atmosphere

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• It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

  Tadao Ando

  Life, Positive, Dream

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• Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

  Frank Gehry

  Hate, Made, Materials

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman.

  Sophia Tolstaya

  Children, Nurse, Wife

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• In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Men, Bed, Pieces

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• If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.

  Anne Lamott

  Courage, Inspirational Life, Doors

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.198, Anchor

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• May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.

  John Woolman

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

  Susan Strasberg

  Grandma, Home, Grandmother

  Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”

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• A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.

  Hope Mirrlees

  House, Needs, Ghost

  Hope Mirrlees (2007). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.136, Wildside Press LLC

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• ...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Book, Reading, Men

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• A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

  Edmund Burke

  Fashion, Rags, Ancient

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.126

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• Home, the idea of home, is my principal purpose. If people have bought a house as an investment or chosen the furniture because they'll be able to sell it for more, you can tell in two minutes. You know, our parents didn't buy a house as an investment. They bought it as a place to bring you up, to give you roots.

  Sister Parish

  Home, Ideas, Two

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