Best Furnishings Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“On Books - Books are the ultimate accessory; they go with everything. Carpets wear down, drapery fades, statuary chips, wallpaper tears and appliances become obsolete and out of date. Movie posters simply scream “Poor high school grad”. But no one ever looks at books and scoffs, “Books? Really? What are you, a college professor?”

College Books High School Movies Posters Accessories Furnishings Dated

Author:Marsha Hinds

“Don't think outside the space. Think inside the space and buy yourself some new furniture.”

Philosophy Space Quote Of The Day Advertising Anthony T Hincks Furniture Furnishings Housewares Think Outside The Space

Author:Anthony T. Hincks

“Furnished in elaborate velvets, silks, and brocades, it's a riot of scarlet and deep blues and greens, everything rich and dark, like overripe fruit. The patterns on the material are the sorts of things I have become accustomed to- intricate braids of briars, leaves that might also be spiders when you looked at them from another angle, and a depiction of a hunt where it is unclear which of the creatures is hunting the other.”

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Book:The Cruel Prince

Source: The Cruel Prince

“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.”

People Bits Assuming Logical Surround Sane Goodwill Furnishings

Author:Anne Morice

“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.”

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Author:Sydney J. Harris

“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.”

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Book:Conversations

Source: Conversations

“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.”

House Creation Filled Splendid Exquisite Furnishings

Author:John Calvin

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

Existence Possession Confronting Thinness Furnishings

Author:Zoë Heller

“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.”

Ifs Mind Home Life Is Chance Cold Blame Owners Elegant Select Furnishings

Book:Bendigo Shafter

Source: Bendigo Shafter

“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.”

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Author:Robert Frost

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

Corporations Altruism Goliath Furnishings

Author:Jasper Fforde

“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.”

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Author:Bill Bryson

“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.”

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Author:Minot Judson Savage

“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.”

People Feels Matter Worry Tears Surround Interior Design Furnishings

Author:Albert Hadley

“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.”

Might House Rooms Standards Appearance Halls Apartment Manhattan Clutter Banquets Valhalla Furnishings

Book:franny and zooey

Source: franny and zooey

“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.”

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Book:Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

“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.”

Design Cost Patient Atmosphere Dedicated Charming Minimum Modest Interiors Maintenance Interior Design Distinctive Decoration Expenditures Maternity Furnishings

Author:Dorothy Draper

“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.”

“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.”

Nature Youth Garden Patterns Smell Recalls Scent Sweetness Furnishings

Book:The fragrant path

Source: The fragrant path