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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed. Votes: 4

Natalie Morales

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We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture. Votes: 4

Robin Williams

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I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own. Votes: 4

Les Dawson

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Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life. They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them. Votes: 4

Terence Conran

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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. Votes: 4

Fran Lebowitz

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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. Votes: 4

Arthur Conan Doyle

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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. Votes: 4

Brian Eno

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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind. Votes: 4

George Berkeley

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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess. Votes: 4

H. P. Lovecraft

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What was I drinking last night? Furniture polish? Votes: 3

Paul O'Grady

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Furniture that is too obviously designed is very interesting, but too often belongs only in museums. Votes: 3

Milo

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Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse. Votes: 3

Henry David Thoreau

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Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you. Votes: 3

David Schwarzer

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Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment Votes: 3

Arne Jacobsen

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Arne Jacobsen

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Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture. Votes: 2

Dee Hock

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I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture. Votes: 2

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. Votes: 2

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture. Votes: 2

Noel Coward

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I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture. Votes: 2

Kelly Wearstler

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Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference. Votes: 2

Anthea Turner

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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. Votes: 2

Henry Ward Beecher

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I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew. Votes: 2

Tim Conway

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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. Votes: 2

Ted Williams

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I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture. Votes: 2

Kevin McCloud

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They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese. Votes: 2

Christian Lacroix

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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. Votes: 2

Wallace Stevens

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I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. Votes: 2

Frank Lloyd Wright

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We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. Votes: 2

Alfred Newman

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It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. Votes: 2

Benjamin Franklin

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Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture. Votes: 2

Dave Grohl

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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. Votes: 2

Pamela Anderson

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I want to design jewelry for girls and guys... I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design, probably when I'm just designing furniture and buildings, I'll probably being the jewelry thing, too. Votes: 2

Tyler, The Creator

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Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions. Votes: 2

Marc Newson

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The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine. Votes: 2

Cindy Crawford

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I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people. Votes: 2

Donna Karan

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If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks. Votes: 2

Nicole Holofcener

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I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture. Votes: 2

Margaret O'Brien

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I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization. Votes: 2

Dave Grohl

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The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot. Votes: 2

Arne Glimcher

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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. Votes: 2

Arthur Conan Doyle

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When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good. Votes: 2

Al Goldstein

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I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China. Votes: 2

Jung Chang

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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal. Votes: 2

Tatyana Tolstaya

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The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming. Votes: 2

John O'Donohue

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In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor. Votes: 2

Trevor Nunn

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We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God. Votes: 2

Duane Chapman

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Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians. Votes: 2

Lapo Elkann

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At first, my bedroom had flowers and yellow walls and huge furniture in plastic that was orange and green - and furry green bed cover and everything. Then, I think the day I turned 13, I painted the walls black and put Kurt Cobain on the wall and just changed everything into a dark theme. Votes: 2

Tove Lo

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History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory. Votes: 2

James Howard Kunstler

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Parents who want a fresh point of view on their furniture are advised to drop down on all fours and accompany the nine or ten month old on his rounds. It is probably many years since you last studied the underside of a dining room chair. The ten month old will study this marvel with as much concentration and reverence as a tourist in the Cathedral of Chartres. Votes: 2

Selma Fraiberg

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Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture. Votes: 0

Helmut Newton

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Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture. Votes: 0

Arnold Newman

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Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture. Votes: 0

Jacquelyn Mitchard

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No furniture is so charming as books. Votes: 0

Sydney Smith

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I make very basic country rustic furniture. Votes: 0

Thomas Middleditch

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The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture. Votes: 0

Nelson Rodrigues

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Men do cry, but only when assembling furniture. Votes: 0

Rita Rudner

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The key to life was rearranging the furniture. Votes: 0

Robert Ferro

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Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark. Votes: 0

Steven Wright

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Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture. Votes: 0

Spencer Tracy

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I don't have any furniture of mine in my room. Votes: 0

Marc Newson

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We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture. Votes: 0

Mignon McLaughlin

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I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me. Votes: 0

Karen Morley

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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes. Votes: 0

Manolo Blahnik

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Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture. Votes: 0

Janina Gavankar

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My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood. Votes: 0

Ettore Sottsass

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I learned that buying expensive furniture with toddlers around is pointless. Votes: 0

Nicole Polizzi

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I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle. Votes: 0

Kelly Wearstler

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His lies matched my wooden furniture, they were both highly polished Votes: 0

Charmaine J. Forde

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I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. Votes: 0

Brad Pitt

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My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture. Votes: 0

Alicia Markova

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It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things. Votes: 0

Stephen Bayley

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Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture. Votes: 0

Adrienne Monnier

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As a Christian, I am responsible for the furniture of my mind. Votes: 0

Frank E. Gaebelein

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I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame. Votes: 0

John Ruskin

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I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums. Votes: 0

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

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Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind. Votes: 0

Isaac D'Israeli

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I have over 5000 costumes, and the furniture and memorabilia that goes with them. Votes: 0

Debbie Reynolds

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Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity. Votes: 0

Walter Lippmann

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The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture. Votes: 0

Eric Church

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This is Buford," Leo announced. "You name your furniture?" Frank asked. Votes: 0

Rick Riordan

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A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted. Votes: 0

Hope Mirrlees

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She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture. Votes: 0

Arundhati Roy

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It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture. Votes: 0

Neil Simon

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As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania. Votes: 0

Roland Barthes

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No violence, gentlemen â no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture! Votes: 0

Arthur Conan Doyle

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My favorite piece of furniture is my bed, cause' it's fluffy and so comfortable! Votes: 0

Vivica A. Fox

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I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture. Votes: 0

Frank Gehry

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Yeah, I enjoy musical chairs. My furniture is deaf, so it gets rather interesting. Votes: 0

Jarod Kintz

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Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won't come through. Votes: 0

Susan Sontag

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Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible. Votes: 0

James Laver

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To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers. Votes: 0

Edith Wharton

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There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero - practically in the world. Votes: 0

Gerry Harvey

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I speak in a loud, clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture. Votes: 0

Alfred Lunt

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A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds. Votes: 0

Robertson Davies

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In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture. Votes: 0

Tallulah Bankhead

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I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture. Votes: 0

Ty Pennington

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I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff. Votes: 0

Prabal Gurung

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I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books. Votes: 0

Aerin Lauder

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You cannot separate the old furniture from the memories and the memories from the old furniture! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in. Votes: 0

Francis Jourdain

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I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture. Votes: 0

Mick Jagger

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If I gave this guy more time, there would be a swimming pool and rattan furniture. Votes: 0

Joe Teti

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I already know how strong you are. You didn't have to break the furniture." Bella Swan Votes: 0

Stephenie Meyer

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Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. Votes: 0

Todd Gitlin

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No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain. Votes: 0

Graham Greene

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Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first. Votes: 0

P. J. O'Rourke

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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love. Votes: 0

Barbra Streisand

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Most furniture is not made for people - they are made for the people who sell them. Votes: 0

Laura Huxley

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Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best. Votes: 0

Albert Hadley

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That furniture cost me a fortune! It's designer furniture." "Designed by whom ? Darth Vader ? The Hitler Youth ? Votes: 0

Jennifer Crusie

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You just may be a redneck if your lawn furniture used to be your living room furniture. Votes: 0

Jeff Foxworthy

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I designed every piece {of furniture} for a different reason and purpose, so I love each one. Votes: 0

Savannah Brinson

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A cat, by any other name, is still a sneaky little furball that barfs on the furniture. Votes: 0

Chris Rock

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It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world. Votes: 0

Anton Chekhov

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The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea. Votes: 0

Robert Henri

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I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture. Votes: 0

Steve Hamilton

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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect. Votes: 0

Nate Berkus

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I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it. Votes: 0

Lenny Kravitz

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Men don't live well by themselves. They don't even live like people. They live like bears with furniture. Votes: 0

Rita Rudner

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I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair. Votes: 0

Thom Filicia

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I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums. Votes: 0

Zaha Hadid

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I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture. Votes: 0

Alison Bechdel

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I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up. Votes: 0

Barbra Streisand

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I make furniture that can be used as weapons. The most dangerous piece of furniture is the Loveseat. Votes: 0

Jarod Kintz

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Difference between diversity and inclusion is being invited to a house and being able to rearrange the furniture. Votes: 0

Jane Silber

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Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture. Votes: 0

Salman Rushdie

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When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture. Votes: 0

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture. Votes: 0

Susan Strasberg

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I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels. Votes: 0

Lisa Marie Presley

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... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year. Votes: 0

Phyllis Diller

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...you have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!... Votes: 0

John Geddes

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What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room. Votes: 0

Lisa Alther

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Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it. Votes: 0

Frank Gehry

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Make sure furniture decor has similar scale. It's all about scale, proportion, measuring, being conscious of the overall plan. Votes: 0

Michael S. Smith

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A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody. Votes: 0

E. W. Howe

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A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams. Votes: 0

Anne Perry

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Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture. Votes: 0

Alfred Lunt

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Some women want the strong silent type, so they can tell him to shut up and rearrange the furniture. Votes: 0

P. J. O'Rourke

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Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers. Votes: 0

Billy Casper

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The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.' Votes: 0

P. J. O'Rourke

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Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate! Votes: 0

Horace Mann

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So many people arrange furniture in order to see what's going on outside. But why? The view isn't going anywhere. Votes: 0

Albert Hadley

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When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture. Votes: 0

Emilio Pucci

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Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing. Votes: 0

Van Day Truex

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I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time. Votes: 0

Nate Berkus

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The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture. Votes: 0

Alfred Lunt

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It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture. Votes: 0

Erma Bombeck

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No one knows why, but second only to eating the brains of the living, the dead love affordable prefab furniture. Votes: 0

Christopher Moore

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I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture. Votes: 0

Danny Bonaduce

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Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us. Votes: 0

John Ashbery

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A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion. Votes: 0

Edmund Burke

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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8. Votes: 0

Nate Berkus

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The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process. Votes: 0

Gianfranco Ferre

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It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture. Votes: 0

Johnny Cash

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There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start. Votes: 0

Mary Margaret McBride

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Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii. Votes: 0

Michael Martin Hammer

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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. Votes: 0

Sophia Tolstaya

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... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician. Votes: 0

James McCartney

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When your home is perfect, every plant in place, every piece of furniture suits the space completely - you've completed a task. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture. Votes: 0

Benjamin Rush

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Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile. Votes: 0

Theodore Roosevelt

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That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories. Votes: 0

Joseph Roth

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People buy very badly made furniture and fabric. Instead, buy a beautiful dining table, well-made upholstery. It's almost like dressing for success. Votes: 0

Michael S. Smith

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I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000. Votes: 0

Jennifer Tilly

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Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things. Votes: 0

Pauline Kael

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The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours. Votes: 0

Christiaan Huygens

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I jog at the Rose Bowl, and I collect antique and vintage furniture, so I'm there every few weeks for the flea market. Votes: 0

Theo Rossi

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My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing break. Votes: 0

Stephen J. Cannell

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In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture. Votes: 0

Stephen Gardiner

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I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities." Votes: 0

Erin Wasson

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His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs. Votes: 0

Laura Hillenbrand

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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space. Votes: 0

Nate Berkus

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I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities. Votes: 0

Erin Wasson

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Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor. Votes: 0

Alan Chadwick

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I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer. Votes: 0

Lenny Kravitz

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The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable. Votes: 0

Robert K. Merton

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It is not enough just to open the door to the rooms of power. We have to get inside and rearrange the furniture! Votes: 0

Gertrude Mongella

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Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture. Votes: 0

Paige Butcher

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I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up. Votes: 0

Paul Smith

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Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small. Votes: 0

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

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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. Votes: 0

Megan Whalen Turner

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The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping. Votes: 0

Arthur Miller

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The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale. Votes: 0

Massimo Vignelli

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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. Votes: 0

Jen Kirkman

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I love furniture. And I thought, why are we not seeing who's making the cool new coffee table and these new designs that come out? Votes: 0

Ellen DeGeneres

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No: What the heck happened? Or: Why did you go from nearly kissing me to tossing me across your yard and into the patio furniture? Votes: 0

Alyson Noel

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I told the tree it was going nowhere in life. It was hurtful, but true. Now, maybe in death it will go somewhere, as furniture. Votes: 0

Jarod Kintz

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No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this [digital] stuff. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna

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If I could find a real life place to make me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name. Votes: 0

Holly Golightly

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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. Votes: 0

Tim Gunn

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I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture. Votes: 0

Billy Bob Thornton

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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. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna

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The citric acid in lemon juice makes it perfect for bleaching, disinfecting and cutting through grease. And olive oil is a great alternative to furniture polish. Votes: 0

Sheherazade Goldsmith

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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. Votes: 0

Anna Sui

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Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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You ask my advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday. Votes: 0

Noel Coward

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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. Votes: 0

Michael S. Smith

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I like living sparsely. In the main room, there's no furniture - no tables, no chairs, no coffee table - not even a decaffeinated coffee table. Votes: 0

Sebastian Horsley

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I shopped a lot on 1stdibs.com when I first started modelling. Just whenever, I've always been on and bought all my furniture on 1stdibs.com. Votes: 0

Erin Heatherton

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Is your relationship strong enough to survive a trip to Ikea? Is their furniture strong enough to survive a relationship? Have you ever bought a bed there? Votes: 0

Greg Gutfeld

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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. Votes: 0

Rex Smith

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I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where. Votes: 0

Olivia Newton-John

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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. Votes: 0

Aldo Leopold

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I haven't got time in my life to do all the things I should be doing, like running and dieting and decorating my house, buying some furniture. Votes: 0

Jennifer Saunders

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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. Votes: 0

Janet Street-Porter

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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. Votes: 0

Ellen DeGeneres

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The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersome furniture, and spend the rest of their lives in trying to dodge it. Votes: 0

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture. Votes: 0

Donald Judd

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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. Votes: 0

Nicky Singer

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In my head, my business is architecture and furniture; it's 70 percent ProuvÃ©, and Corbusier, Royer, Jeanneret - they all passed away. So it's retrospective, I'm looking back. Votes: 0

Patrick Seguin

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By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit. Votes: 0

Kelly Wearstler

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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. Votes: 0

Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

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A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read. Votes: 0

Donalyn Miller

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I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor. Votes: 0

Emily Procter

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My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself. Votes: 0

Jonathan Ive

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My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture. Votes: 0

Anne Hathaway

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No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out. Votes: 0

Jacki Weaver

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I try never to say no when it comes to creativity, but I do try and lead down an "appropriate road" - like not on furniture or the walls. Votes: 0

Sarah Michelle Gellar

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I'm OK with being single, but I'm not OK when the time comes where I have to move my furniture around and to change the high ceiling light balls... Votes: 0

Hiroko Sakai

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The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture. Votes: 0

Gene Hackman

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I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space. Votes: 0

Gae Aulenti

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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. Votes: 0

John Woolman

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I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store. Votes: 0

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words. Votes: 0

Robert Wilson

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...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. Votes: 0

William Morris

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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. Votes: 0

Aldous Huxley

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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. Votes: 0

Anne Lamott

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I believe in trying foods from all over the world, going to markets and finding jewelry and furniture and just treating myself well. It's important for me creatively to travel. Votes: 0

Crystal Renn

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A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary. Votes: 0

Elsa Peretti

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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. Votes: 0

Bill Bailey

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There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture! Votes: 0

Jim Rohn

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Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write. Votes: 0

Danielle Steel

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I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting up new ones, and buying new pieces of art. Votes: 0

Evangeline Lilly

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Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Edwards

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I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take. Votes: 0

Barbara Mertz

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People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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... we never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture ... Votes: 0

Gene Stratton-Porter

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Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century. Votes: 0

John Lahr

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I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with my time, it made me take my writing seriously. Votes: 0

Simon Van Booy

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The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy. - Wally's Keynote Speech Votes: 0

Scott Adams

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The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine Votes: 0

Cindy Crawford

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The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture finished and put inside boxes. Votes: 0

Dave Barry

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But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture. Votes: 0

Raymond Carver

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The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence. Votes: 0

Olivier Theyskens

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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. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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Speaking as someone who's played a lot of video games, and at the end of the video game all you have is a memory, after woodworking you get this piece of furniture. Votes: 0

Thomas Middleditch

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My parents did not pay a cent for my education; they didn't give me a car or furniture - I did that 100% on my own. I had to pay back a lot. Votes: 0

Constance Wu

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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. Votes: 0

Julia Glass

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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. Votes: 0

Tadao Ando

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I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things. Votes: 0

Douglas Coupland

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Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season. Votes: 0

Carl Honore

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Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that's what excites me. Votes: 0

Tom Ford

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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. Votes: 0

Anthony Burgess

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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 Votes: 0

Ingvar Kamprad

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SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture. Votes: 0

Patrick Califia

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In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'. Votes: 0

Emanuel Celler

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We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know. Votes: 0

Joan Ryan

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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?" Votes: 0

Steven Wright

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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway. Votes: 0

Rachel Sklar

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I would tell to young people to sit on their heels. Children do that naturally so if they never had furniture they would do it. It's wonderful for all parts of the body. Votes: 0

Laura Huxley

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Pray, for what do we move ever but to get rid of our furniture, our exuviÃ¦; at last to go from this world to another newly furnished, and leave this to be burned? Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Aristocracy is relative: there are all sorts of inexpensive little resorts where the son of a furniture salesman may be the arbiter of all things elegant, holding court like a young Prince of Wales." Votes: 0

Marcel Proust

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I can tell by your eye shadow, you're from Brooklyn, right? . . . Me too. My mother has plastic covers on all the furniture. Even the poodle. Looked like a barking hassock walking down the street. Votes: 0

Elayne Boosler

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It was like bouncing tennis balls off a mystery piece of furniture and deducing, from the direction in which the balls ricocheted, whether it was a chair or a table or a Welsh dresser. Votes: 0

Marcus Chown

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Sellout... I'm not crazy about the word. We're all entrepreneurs. To me, I don't care if you own a furniture store or whatever - the best sign you can put up is SOLD OUT. Votes: 0

Bill Withers

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I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932! Votes: 0

Peter Mullan

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I strongly believe that people may not want, or may not be able, to start again from scratch, so giving old furniture a new lease of life is at the heart of my philosophy. Votes: 0

Nina Campbell

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What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice? Votes: 0

George Eliot

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You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'Stop shouting,' 'Stop jumping around on the furniture.' But 'Stop showing off'? That's awful. Votes: 0

Charles Dance

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It's trust issue more than anything. I mean, whats stopping them from teaming up, dressing up like a really tall person in a trenchcoat, and then BAM. They sneak out with all your furniture Votes: 0

Zach Braff

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AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works. Votes: 0

Joe Perry

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If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa. Votes: 0

David Brooks

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How hard is hitting? You ever walk into a pitch-black room full of furniture that you've never been in before and try to walk through it without bumping into anything? Well, it's harder than that. Votes: 0

Ted Kluszewski

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Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met. Votes: 0

John Lasseter

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Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort. Votes: 0

Alexandra Adornetto

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A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one. Votes: 0

Quentin Crisp

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Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets. Votes: 0

Ursula Andress

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It was fairly obvious to anyone who studied the situation that China was dumping bedroom furniture in the U.S. to the detriment of our American workers and manufacturers to gain market access and share. Votes: 0

Howard Coble

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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. Votes: 0

Katharine Hepburn

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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance. Votes: 0

F. Sionil Jose

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Just because I'm Native American doesn't mean I can track furniture through the wilderness." She deepened her voice: ""Yes, kemosabe. A three-legged table passed this way an hour ago.' Heck, I don't know. Votes: 0

Rick Riordan

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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. Votes: 0

Sam Maloof

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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. Votes: 0

Olympia Brown

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Thatâs a divorce. You ever seen a divorce? Thatâs like her taking not only the furniture and the silverware -- she took the dog, too. (Harvick) didnât get the animal, I would say.

Clint Bowyer

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On Furnishing One's Home - Pick your furniture like you pick a wife; it should make you feel comfortable and look nice, but not so nice that if someone walks past it they want to steal it.

Justin Halpern

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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).

Nancy Lancaster

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We always had dogs,so I understood all the joy and the love animals are capable of giving. It's crazy to me that some people have dogs in thier homes, but they treat them more like furniture.

Alicia Silverstone

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Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

Mark Twain

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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.

Sam Maloof

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Even now, if I am thinking about spending a lot of money on clothing or furniture, I think 'I can't spend so much money on one thing; my poor old Daddy could have raised his family five years on that!'

Dolly Parton

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Great. So if I saw a guy standing still, and he wasn't wearing an old uniform, I just had to ask him to walk through furniture. If he stared at me like I was crazy, then I'd know he wasn't a ghost. - Chloe

Kelley Armstrong

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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.

Betsey Johnson

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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.

Langston Hughes

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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.

William Joyce

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For instance, [Adolf Hitler] would never have spent the night at the WidenmayerstraÃe apartment. He visited it before we moved the furniture in, he visited maybe 4 times afterwards and he never spent the entire night.

Gretl Braun

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However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.

Jonathan Lethem

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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

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A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.

Allen Johnson

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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.

Doris Day

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What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?

Honore de Balzac

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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!

Jeremiah Brent

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Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.

Philip Sidney

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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.

Simon de Pury

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Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.

Friedrich Schiller

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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

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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.

Jason Wu

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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.

Jandy Nelson

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The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

Jacques Barzun

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I designed furniture that pulled apart, folded, and broke down into neat stacks. Since arriving in California, I had moved four times and it looked as if I would move again. Was it the land running under my feet or my feet running over the land?

Gretel Ehrlich

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If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.

Chuck Klosterman

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A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.

C. S. Lewis

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I started in the industry in Public Relations, Quality Assurance, Information Systems and furniture moving. I tried my hand in design and havenât looked back. Iâm fond of hackysack, racquetball, BBQ grilling, hanging out with my wife and friends

Dan Miller

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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.

Alain de Botton

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There is a new codeword going round school. DFS. It means 'desperate for sex.' It sounds like you are talking about the furniture shop. For the record, I'm certainly DFS. In fact I am permanently shopping in DFS with no hope of getting out of the store.

Rae Earl

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When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out of your mind all the worn and shabby furniture of thought. You wish to refurbish yourself with living thought so that you can begin to see.

John O'Donohue

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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.

John Ruskin

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There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later:

George Orwell

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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.

David Trubridge

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The Pantechnicon stored and distributed a good deal of furniture as well. The very idea of a lady of good breeding visiting such a place. There would be tables lying about, on their sides, naked! Not to mention flaccid dirigibles! Alexia shuddered at the very idea.

Gail Carriger

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Want to try it?" Dad offered, patting the arm of the chair. "Fifteen different kinds of massage. It analyzes your back muscles and makes recommendations. It also grabs and stretches the thigh and calf muscles." "No, thanks. I prefer my furniture to keep its hands to itself.

Lisa Kleypas

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My wife is been extremely supportive and when doubt creeps in, she's there pushing me along. She's helped me move up here, get all of my furniture and brought all my groceries. That's what marriage is about: supporting each other and helping each other reach our fullest potential.

Eddie George

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I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their pictures, for instance, is a mystery to me; very revolting all the same--portraits obliged to face each other for ever--prints put together in portfolios.

Robert Browning

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