Best pieces & furniture Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran

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

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Author:Sophia Tolstaya

“No one with a living room radio that was a piece of furniture at the time would say, gee. I want to carry that around on my hip pocket. That was not a thought until NASA initiated this whole exercise. So there's an influence that's not just spinoff.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art.”

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Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.”

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Author:Kelly Wearstler

“I came up to New York at 20 with a suitcase and a ceramic tiger. That was my one piece of furniture and I wanted to save it.”

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Author:Rex Smith

“I hate the word "eclectic" .I'm a classicist, and I like comfort. Lots of books, lots of artwork, pieces of family furniture, and newer upholstery.”

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Author:Tim Gunn

“I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship.”

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Author:Bill Bailey

“I became interested in building furniture, because I couldn't find pieces I really loved for myself and my clients. I picked stuff up from the street, and tweaked those pieces to make them what I really wanted. It became a career!”

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Author:Jeremiah Brent

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

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Book:The Lock Artist: A Novel

Source: The Lock Artist: A Novel

“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.”

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Author:Julian Huxley

“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.”

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Author:Ben Folds

“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.”

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Author:Susan Orlean

“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.”

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Author:Jason Reitman

“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.”

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Author:Katharine Hepburn

“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.”

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Book:THE

Source: THE

“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.”

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Author:Emilio Pucci

“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.”

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Author:Simon de Pury

“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.”

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Author:Doris Day

“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.”

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Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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

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Author:Tallulah Bankhead

“I designed every piece {of furniture} for a different reason and purpose, so I love each one.”

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Author:Savannah Brinson

“Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.”

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Book:Performance in the Garden: A Collection of Talks on Biodynamic French Intensive Horticulture

Source: Performance in the Garden: A Collection of Talks on Biodynamic French Intensive Horticulture

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