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“Trees are very good friends. Firm friends. My five year olds tree could be relied upon to be there next day, uncritical and protective. And think of trees contribution to our lives. They provide boats, buildings, paper, furniture and, for clog-wearers, footwear. As well as contributing toothpicks and chopsticks they give little birdies somewhere comfy to sit. Best of all, they help produce breathable air and lock up that naughty carbon. Why is why I am talking to the Greens about giving trees the vote.”

Source: The Lock Artist: A Novel

“Think of your husband as a house. You are allowed to give him a fresh coat of paint and change out the furniture now and then. But if you're constantly trying to pour a new foundation or replace the roof, you're in serious trouble.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Trying House Trouble Serious Husband Foundation Paint Now And Then Roof Coats Furniture Think Of You Your Husband

Book:There's a Spouse in My House: A Humorous Journey Through the First Years of Marriage

Source: There's a Spouse in My House: A Humorous Journey Through the First Years of Marriage

“I explain to everyone I deal with-co-workers, children, friends-that I'm transitionally challenged and they should call me on my cell phone if I'm even a few minutes late. Such calls often come in when I'm happily writing or rearranging the furniture. The monochrones in my life are so organized, they have no trouble remembering to remind me to show up.”

Ifs Should Writing Children Shows Remember Deals Trouble Minutes Late Workers Phones Cells Organized Call Me Furniture Cell Phone Co Worker Rearranging

Author:Martha Beck

“Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological furniture is over, that we must construct something to take its place.”

People Mean Doe Moral Pieces Relief Constructs Hypothesis Furniture Abandonment Sanctions Ideological Outdated

Author:Julian Huxley

“...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.”

Ifs Art House Design Clothes Works Of Art Household Furniture Wretched Interior Design Degrading Utensils

Book:The Collected Works of William Morris: Hopes and fears for art. Lectures on art and industry

Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: Hopes and fears for art. Lectures on art and industry

“No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.”

Humans Human Beings Building Safe Architecture Furniture

Book:A Burnt-Out Case

Source: A Burnt-Out Case

“So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive.”

Ifs Real Can Do Alive Car Planets Real Life Robots Furniture Living On

Author:William Joyce

“The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.”

Different Bigs Animal Rooms Class Pieces Grew Fit Grew Up Heavy Piano Expensive Furniture Living Room Upper Class Different Animals Rocking Out

Author:Ben Folds

“While I was gone, somebody rearranged on the furniture in my bedroom. They put it in exactly the same place it was. When I told my roommate, he said: "Do I know you?"”

Knows Said Humor Funny Gone Bedroom Furniture Roommate

Author:Steven Wright

“I think on a day-to-day basis, what attracts us in coexisting with another living, evolving thing, is that you have a relationship that's different than with a piece of furniture. We experience the cycle of life through these other beings.”

Thinking Different Pieces Bases Evolve Cycles Day To Day Furniture Cycle Of Life

Author:Susan Orlean

“I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.”

Certain Furniture

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“Directing is a reactionary job more than a creation job. The job is to react whether it's moment one, the first time you read the script or see an article or read a book or notice something happen on the street and have an idea for a movie, and it just continues from there on in. You're just reacting to dialogue, a performance, an audition, a headache, a piece of furniture, a piece of clothing.”

Firsts Book Ideas Moments Happens Jobs Pieces Streets Creation First Time Performances Scripts Things Happen Dialogue Articles Clothings Auditions Furniture Headache Reacting Reactionaries

Author:Jason Reitman

“Some women want the strong silent type, so they can tell him to shut up and rearrange the furniture.”

Want Strong Type Silent Shut Up Furniture Women Want

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

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

Ifs Want Should House Fine Blind Furniture

Book:The works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of essays, humorous, moral, and literary: with his life, written by himself

Source: The works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of essays, humorous, moral, and literary: with his life, written by himself

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

Enough Rooms Doors Furniture

Author:Gertrude Mongella

“As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.”

Littles Century Late Load Plates Furniture Carpet Palaces Monarchs Wagons Tapestry

Book:Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

“If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good.”

Ifs Interest Pay Pieces Nice Materials Paid Buying Fascinating Furniture Thrilling Very Nice

Author:Katharine Hepburn

“A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.”

Mind Dream Library Thread Our Dreams Furniture

Author:Anne Perry

“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.”

Ifs Men Firsts Science Common Pieces Accounts Patient Rate Common Sense Plenty Furniture Chamber Quip

Book:THE

Source: THE

“I got my career start by first creating my own free, independent lifestyle in my own house out in the country. There I taught myself to make and later design furniture. I have continued to go my own way, always consciously needing to feel that I am moving forward.”

Way Feels Firsts Country Moving House My Own Careers Design Taught Creating Independent Lifestyle Moving Forward Furniture

Author:David Trubridge

“Deep practice feels a bit like exploring a dark and unfamiliar room. You start slowly, you bump into furniture, stop, think, and start again. Slowly, and a little painfully, you explore the space over and over, attending to errors, extending your reach into the room a bit farther each time, building a mental map until you can move through it quickly and intuitively.”

Thinking Feels Littles Moving Bits Dark Space Rooms Practice Building Errors Maps Exploring Furniture Bumps Unfamiliar Attending Extending

Author:Daniel Coyle

“I make very basic country rustic furniture.”

Country Furniture Rustic

Author:Thomas Middleditch

“It wasn't just that my breasts were sore and my legs seethed with restlessness at night. A knitted cap seemed to have settled on my brain as well. Never think that pregnancy is just a spare room in a woman's house; it changes everything - the heat, the light, the furniture.”

Thinking Wells Light Night House Rooms Brain Legs Heat Breasts Pregnancy Spares Furniture Caps Restlessness

Author:Marni Jackson

“When I was creative director [at Estée Lauder], I was always being asked about my beauty must-haves. From there I had this fun idea to create a line of what was in my makeup bag. But I also love accessories, and people associate me with home, family, and beauty. As a girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse; if I could still play with it now, I would! I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.”

“To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.”

Generations Gas Furniture Chandeliers

Book:The letters of Edith Wharton

Source: The letters of Edith Wharton

“Nothing. Absolutely nothing. No furniture, no light fittings, no carpet, no bodies. Not a single body. Nothing but the million ducks, the three million ducklings and a window.”

Body Light Three Millions Window Ducks Furniture Carpet Absolutely Nothing Ducklings

Author:Nicky Singer

“The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the workers to ugliness, ugliness, ugliness: meanness and formless and ugly surroundings, ugly ideals, ugly religion, ugly hope, ugly love, ugly clothes, ugly furniture, ugly houses, ugly relationship between workers and employers. The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.”

Source: Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.”

Children Faces Wall Window Guilty Companion Furniture Spit Rudeness

Author:Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

“You cannot separate the old furniture from the memories and the memories from the old furniture!”

Memories Furniture

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In my experience, Cupid's arrows rarely strike two people with the same definition of cleanliness. One partner usually feels like he or she is being asked to live in a furniture exhibit in the British Museum. The other partner remains convinced that he or she is forced to contend with the human version of Hurricane Gilbert.”

People Feels Humans Two Remains Definitions British Convinced Strikes Partners Versions Museums Furniture Arrows Hurricanes Exhibits Cleanliness Cupid British Museum

Author:Margo Kaufman

“We are in a very strange way going back to the mentality of the time when Americans went in covered wagons. I imagine they had a piece of cloth, and the piece of furniture they carried with them meant to be a good piece of wood, and sturdy. We're going back to that.”

Way Pieces Imagine Strange Woods Covered Meant To Be Mentality Furniture Wagons Sturdy

Author:Emilio Pucci

“Everybody you work with sees what you're doing from a different point of view, a very specific point of view. So, if someone is lighting, they're seeing it from that point of view. A production designer is seeing it from the placement of furniture that tells you about the character. Everything that goes into the room should tell you about the person who lives in that room.”

Ifs Should Persons Different Character Rooms Views Seeing Productions Point Of View Designer Furniture Lighting Different Points Of View Placement

Author:Fred Schepisi

“In a way, there's nothing more intimate than a piece of jewelry. A painting is hung on somebody's wall. You put a piece of furniture in your home. But jewelry is worn by a person, so there is a fascination with the history of a piece.”

Way Persons Home Pieces Painting Wall Intimate Worn Hung Furniture Fascination Jewelry

Author:Simon de Pury

“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.”

Kind Home Natural Tvs Technique These Days Fabric Equipment Furniture Presentation Anthology Advertisers Appliances Motifs Furnishings

Book:Conversations

Source: Conversations

“O, that we who declare war against wars, and acknowledge our trust to be in God only, may walk in the light, and therein examine our foundation and motives in holding onto money! May we look upon our estates, our treasures, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these, our possessions.”

Trying Looks May War Light House Walks Foundation Possession Seeds Treasure Acknowledge Motive Look Up Estates Furniture Holding On Garments Nourishment Against War

Author:John Woolman

“It's quite an experience to have filming done in your house. When they come in, they photograph every piece of furniture and where it is so they can get them back exactly where you had them. You'd never know they'd been here.”

Knows Done House Pieces Photograph Furniture

Author:Doris Day

“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.”

Seems Beautiful Moving Style Species Architecture Visuals Dimensions Furniture Psychedelic

Author:Terence McKenna

“The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable.”

Mind Deals Inevitable Furniture Momentum Arranging

Author:Terence McKenna

“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.”

Littles Values House Personality Standing Filled Series Atmosphere Furniture Inviting Shabby Intrinsic Value Enclosure

Author:Emily Post

“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.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Two Ideas Home Able Purpose House Parent Minutes Roots Sells Investment Chosen Principal Furniture

Author:Sister Parish

“I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.”

Thinking Kids Scales Block Furniture

Author:Nate Berkus

“If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.”

Ifs Thinking Space Organized Furniture Clutter Small Spaces

Author:Nate Berkus

“What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it.”

Men Persons Soul Philosophy Wish Accepting Pieces Depends Philosophical Rejects Furniture Animated

Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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

Men Pieces Bed Lifetime Odd Furniture Men Women

Author:Tallulah Bankhead

“The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist (our friends being friends only in the light of an agreeable folly which travels with us through life and to which we readily accommodate ourselves, but which at the bottom of our hearts we know to be no more reasonable than the delusion of the man who talks to the furniture because he believes that it is alive.).”

Knows Men Giving Believe Heart Doe Reality Light Artist Hours Alive Sacrifice He Man Conversation Giving Up Bottom Folly Reasonable Delusion Furniture Accommodate

Book:The past recaptured

Source: The past recaptured

“Surprise parties are strange 'cause people jump up and they yell the word, 'surprise' at the party. I came home and you emerged from my furniture. You don't have to tell me how to feel. I don't need a hint.”

People Needs Feels Home Causes Party Strange Surprise Furniture Hints Surprise Party

Author:Demetri Martin

“I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.”

Want Architecture Designer Architect Interiors Furniture Interior Designer

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“I remember going into Steve's [Jobs] house, and he had almost no furniture in it. He just had a picture of Einstein, whom he admired greatly, and he had a Tiffany lamp and a chair and a bed. He just didn't believe in having lots of things around, but he was incredibly careful in what he selected.”

Believe Jobs Remember House Bed Careful Chairs Furniture Lamps Selected

Author:John Sculley

“My dad also survived five divorces, and the women he married cleaned his ass out every time. I used to think my dad got divorced because he wanted new furniture. At one point in my life, all we had left was a wooden box, a 12 black-and-white TV, and a four-man rubber raft for a couch. And yet, I was the coolest kid in third grade. Mom, can we have a sleepover in Christopher Titus' house? They have a raft in the living room! We can row to breakfast in the morning. I can actually be Captain Crunch!”

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