Best Furniture Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 9

“If the business were a play, Act One is: Woohoo, bright and bushy-tailed. We're going to make something great! Act Two is: We're six months behind on back-end development. We're trying to raise venture capital. We're trying to figure out what furniture we should sell to make payroll.”

Ifs Should Trying Two Ends Play Business Behinds Figures Months Development Six Raises Sells Venture Six Months Furniture Venture Capital Payroll

Author:Caterina Fake

“And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he's the one who paid for it.”

Want Courses Asks Fans Dog Training Paid Furniture Dog Training Lassie Personal Question

Author:Julia Glass

“For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones, or acted out with wax dummies and period furniture. It takes place in glass bubbles filled with water and chunks of plastic snow; it’s stamped on souvenir pencils and summarized in reprint newspapers. History nowadays is recorded in memorabilia. If you can’t purchase a shopping bag that alludes to something, people won’t believe it ever happened.”

“My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.”

Hours Ideals Therapy Buying Shops Relaxation Furniture Junk Upholstery

Author:Pamela Anderson

“Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.”

Book Reason Moments Hands Cutting Objects Wall Bears Miracle Witness Furniture Ceilings Colonization Fingernails

Author:C. S. Lewis

“My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.”

Design Exercise Architecture Mood Furniture Interior Design

Book:Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography

Source: Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography

“In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.”

Want Form House Quality Sky Design Fields Harmony Independent Secure Sensual Colour Furniture Interior Design

Author:John Ruskin

“It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own....style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture in a room that is without architectural distinction is as absurd as wearing a tiara with a bathing suit.”

Individual Rooms Mistake Pieces Style Design Fine Taste Architecture Absurd Suits Distinction Furniture Interior Design Bathing Bathing Suits Tiaras

Author:Nancy Lancaster

“A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a bit like mixing a salade. (I am better at room than salads).”

Wells Bits Rooms Design Flow Gentle Furniture Mixtures Continuity Salad Interior Design Mixing

Author:Nancy Lancaster

“Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.”

Art Rooms Design Objects Furniture Interior Design

Author:Van Day Truex

“If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages, harmless fun for children of all ages, and they won't mar the furniture.”

Ifs Want Trying Children Use Age Language Fun Fire Design Objects Software Locks Mars Furniture Software Design Pascal Lock Up Ada

Author:Scott Fahlman

“In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding.”

Understanding Common Materials Losing Strive Realms Furniture Gaudy

Author:Olympia Brown

“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”

Ifs Way Love Book Soul House Dark Wall Walking Meetings Your Soul Mates Shelves Furniture Soul Mate Drawers

Author:Jandy Nelson

“My goal is to make furniture that people can be comfortable living with. If you’re not preoccupied with making an impact with your designs, chances are something that looks good today will look good tomorrow.”

People Ifs Looks Today Goal Chance Design Tomorrow Comfortable Impact Furniture Chances Are

Author:Sam Maloof

“There’s a lot of work being done today that doesn’t have any soul in it. The technique may be the utmost perfection, yet it is lifeless. It doesn’t have a soul. I hope my furniture has a soul to it.”

May Soul Done Today Perfection Technique Furniture Being Done Lifeless

Author:Sam Maloof

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

Mind Book Force Weed Pulling Furniture Pulling Weeds

Book:For Your Eye Alone: The Letters of Robertson Davies

Source: For Your Eye Alone: The Letters of Robertson Davies

“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”

May Done Easy Design Cost Designer Desks Furniture Ikea

Author:Ingvar Kamprad

“As a Christian, I am responsible for the furniture of my mind.”

Mind Christian Responsible Furniture Of My Mind

Author:Frank E. Gaebelein

“Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won't work, because it doesn't 'take'.”

Life Inspirational Self Hands Happens Order Change Events Transformation Psychological Transition Furniture Changing Your Life Making Changes Self Transformation Spiritual Transformation Incorporation

Author:William Bridges

“I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.”

Men Ends Fall He Man Husband Falling In Love Furniture Sofas

Author:Janet Street-Porter

“The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.”

Men Doe Ideas Paint Painter Landscape Furniture

Author:Robert Henri

“I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.”

Clothes Shops Furniture Obscurity Antiques

Author:Erin Wasson

“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.”

Men Littles Brain Knowledge Empty You Choose Furniture Funny Inspirational Aggravation Scarlet Attics Heart And Brain Study In Scarlet Empty Heads

Book:A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”

Ifs Men Want Should Littles Use Rooms Business Brain Library Finance Furniture Holmes Attics Lumber

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.”

Needs Looks Long Matter Painting Wine Stores Hotel Furniture Drinkers Barbershop

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.”

Humans Given Environment Everyday Furniture Inertia

Author:Todd Gitlin

“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?”

Years Done Rooms Clear Color Months Gay Green Plant Glasses Poison Covered Delightful Furniture Faded Porcelain

Author:Diana Vreeland

“Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm.”

Lasts Nature Land Warm Desperate Furniture Utility Finality

Author:Aldo Leopold

“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.”

Life Dream Wanted Design Positive Painting Architecture Architect Interiors Furniture Interior Design

Author:Tadao Ando

“The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.”

Wells Earth Science Universe Mystery Planets Dresses Furniture

Author:Christiaan Huygens

“It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.”

Funny Moving Can Do Theory Fats Furniture Obesity

Author:Erma Bombeck

“I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.”

Thinking Looks Kind Fairs Italian Furniture Battlestar Galactica

Author:Thom Filicia

“There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.”

Persons Different Pieces Influence Depends Seasons Furniture Obsessing

Author:Anna Sui

“Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.”

Knows Want Looks Persons Book Values Fiction Furniture Unread Books Money Wasted

Book:You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess

Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess

“Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.”

Fantasy Modern Furniture Attics

Author:Terry Pratchett

“A logo doesn't need to say what a company does. Restaurant logos don't need to show food, dentist logos don't need to show teeth, furniture store logos don't need to show furniture. Just because it's relevant, doesn't mean you can't do better. The Mercedes logo isn't a car. The Virgin Atlantic logo isn't an airplane. The Apple logo isn't a computer. Etc.”

Needs Mean Doe Shows Company Car Computer Stores Teeth Apples Restaurants Etc Relevant Airplane Virgins Furniture Dentist Logos

Author:David Airey

“I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors background, so I'm not an expert. I just enjoy going to antiques shows and finding interesting things.”

Shows Enjoy Interesting Findings Architecture Backgrounds Experts Interiors Furniture Collecting Interesting Things Mixing Polished Antiques

Author:Jason Wu

“I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.”

Book Rooms Objects Furniture

Author:Aerin Lauder

“Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.”

Writing Littles Bigs Fantasy Pieces Doors Furniture

Book:As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“This can be one of cheerfulness or gloom because color which is so inexpensive, is what does the trick. Not color alone but color plus imaginative lighting and cleverly grouping of the furniture. You say you have an old lobby that nothing much can be done with? Oh yes it can!”

Doe Done Color Tricks Plus Furniture Imaginative Lighting Gloom Cheerfulness Inexpensive

Author:Dorothy Draper

“Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.”

Differences Candle Furniture Tweak Rearranging

Author:Anthea Turner

“When you're designing clothing, you really only have one point of focus, and that's the body. But home is fabrics and furniture and floors and natural light. If fashion is a planet, home is more like a universe.”

Ifs Home Body Light Universe Natural Focus Fashion Design Planets Clothings Fabric Furniture Natural Light

Author:Betsey Johnson

“My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece of lumber is a work of art, after all, and I'd like to honor that gift and pass it on for someone else to appreciate.”

Art Use Simple Pieces Design Honor Appreciate Everyday Boxes Woods Practicals Works Of Art Grain Furniture Lumber Everyday Use

Author:Steve Miller

“When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.”

Wanted Parent Let Me Lists Furniture Cookies Malls Cab Sears

Author:Leslie Mann

“I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.”

Fall Woods Falling Apart Furniture

Author:Tim Conway

“Now that I'm a mom, I'm way more laid back. If you come into my house, don't look for a coaster. Forget it. There is not a piece of furniture in my house now that is too precious.”

Ifs Way Looks House Forget Pieces Mom Furniture Forget It Coasters Laid Back

Author:Angela Kinsey

“Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.”

Firsts Home Funny Imagine Journalism Journalist Plastic Sheets Furniture Covering

Book:Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

“Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.”

Lasts Night Hell Claims Tricks Shooting Piano Knives Furniture Last Night Great Success Absinthe

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“It is very important that you should choose the person you will marry and stay with that person. There are many people now who believe in serial love, loving one person after another. I don’t think that is good for our mental health. I think we should get it over with. Love is like measles, you know. You only get it once in your lifetime and you are immune forever. I am very happy to say that is what happened to me. I am completely immune to any temptation. All men who have passed my life after I got married might as well have been sticks of furniture.”

“I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.”

Ifs Tested Furniture Euthanasia

Author:Karen Morley

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