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.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Blissful home furniture quotes that are about antique furniture
Difference between diversity and inclusion is being invited to a house and being able to rearrange the furniture.
One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.
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.
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.
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination.
Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours. By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, I try to show new ways to encourage people to use their phantasy and make their surroundings more exciting.
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
Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us.
This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.
They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.
A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.
One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.
It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.
The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable.
The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!
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.
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Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.
I mean, I never liked being told what to do.
It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Want to know the key to a long-lasting relationship? Don't go with your loved one to Ikea. One psychologist says the stress of a visit to the popular furniture store can cause serious friction between couples, whether it's disputes over what to buy or spats while you assemble the items that you bought there.
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.
Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life.
They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them.
It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.