Quotes About Antique Furniture

#1. precisely the same way the pastoral novels of George Sand, which she was giving me for my birthday, were regular lumber-rooms of antique furniture, full of expressions that have fallen out of use and returned as imagery, such as one finds now only in country dialects.

Marcel Proust

#2. To be modern means to like antique furniture - and youthful neurosis.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#3. People rich enough to redecorate every 10 months are certainly careless with antique furniture. I found four 1760 French side chairs, tapestry seats intact. Claiming them proved easier than persuading any cabdriver to transport the things.

Allan Gurganus

#4. I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.

Debra Winger

#5. I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages.

Susan Choi

#6. What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don't want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.

Allie Burke

#7. Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#8. I don't have any pictures of the lovely Aboriginal people I met because they think it traps their spirit, and if they're correct then Facebook is basically creating a living hell. Which is really not that surprising, now that I say it out loud.

Jenny Lawson

#9. Not everyone will accept you, not everyone will listen to what you have to say & not everyone will care. Does that really matter? I think not. Others may have any opinion whatsoever, but that should not influence who you are or who you want to be.

Emily Gabriela Vira

#10. What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#11. Suffering turns us into egotists, for it absorbs us completely: it is later, in the form of memory, that it teaches us compassion.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#12. To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.

Maya Rudolph

#13. A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.

Aristotle.

#14. Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

Daisy Ashford

#15. 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.

Ursula Andress

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

Theo Rossi

#17. I am very pleased it has all been resolved. I wanted to stay at the club and they wanted me too, there was never a problem. There were only a few small matters to sort out,

Ronaldinho

#18. I will protect your tax money! It won't be spent on Prime Minister and Governor houses. InshALLAH the day PTI government comes in power these walls of governor houses will be brought down. We will break these walls and make libraries and playgrounds for the public to use

Imran Khan

#19. My stuff is direct. Critics have compared my writing style with boxing all the way back to 1978 when my first book of essays appeared: it was compared to Muhammad Ali's style.

Ishmael Reed

#20. It wasn't that she was mad at him for being uninjured. She was so relieved she could have vomited, actually.

Sarah J. Maas

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

Erin Wasson