Quotes About Furniture

#1. Most people who bother to think about plants at all tend to regard them as the mute, immobile furniture of our world - useful enough, and generally attractive, but obviously second-class citizens in the republic of life on Earth.

Stefano Mancuso

#2. 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.

Donalyn Miller

#3. Patterns that Arthur knew, rough blobby shapes that were as familiar to him as the shapes of words, part of the furniture of his mind. For a few seconds he sat in stunned silence as the images rushed around his mind and tried to find somewhere to settle down and make sense ...

Douglas Adams

#4. They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

John Ruskin

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

Kevin McCloud

#6. Being inside this cottage, with dark wooden walls and hand-carved furniture like my own home, cast a darkened stain onto my heart.

Katherine McIntyre

#7. This bullet can go straight through the couch."
He was right. Fuck Ikea for making such flimsy furniture.

Karina Halle

#8. Poisoning us," Bren said, faced with what was a truly attractive service, and with the servants still in the room, "is a process of inconveniently many steps, though conservative of the furniture. One believes we may just have breakfast this morning, nadiin-ji.

C.J. Cherryh

#9. 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

#10. 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.

Terence McKenna

#11. 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.

Donna Karan

#12. Furniture that is too obviously designed is very interesting, but too often belongs only in museums.

Milo

#13. Yeah? What're you planning?"
"She nixed the keg and the strippers, so I don't know. Maybe we'll have a bonfire and torch some furniture.

Jessica Martinez

#14. I felt about him as I might feel about a friendly, dimwitted dog that had decided to move in with us. He could not be cast out into the street, but he was shedding all over the furniture.

Elizabeth Peters

#15. 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.

Tove Lo

#16. 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.

Pablo Picasso

#17. 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

#18. When it comes to life, all you can change is the equivalent of furniture, paint and windows. Doors, maybe. Change the things that are in too bad a state and hope the core holds.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#19. I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.

Frank Gehry

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

Erma Bombeck

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

P. J. O'Rourke

#22. 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?

Ellen DeGeneres

#23. I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively. In London, it's all about color because the weather is so gray, and in that cold light they look beautiful.

Mario Testino

#24. 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.

William Morris

#25. We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.

Mignon McLaughlin

#26. 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.

Susan Orlean

#27. As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative itself, but also in creating the emotional and psychological atmosphere of that narrative - the imaginative furniture, as it were, in which any story unfolds.

John Burnside

#28. It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.

Johnny Cash

#29. A collection of chairs seems to show someone that is used to resting while others get the work done. I have no use for finely crafted furniture.

Kat Daughtry

#30. Then will the poor worldling exclaim: "Alas! my house, my gardens, that elegant furniture, those garments, will soon be no longer mine: the grave alone remaineth for me.

Alfonso Maria De Liguori

#31. 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.

Terry Pratchett

#32. 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.

Jung Chang

#33. I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.

Candice Olson

#34. Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.

Albert Hadley

#35. How truly novel. The emotional life of furniture. I never.

Gregory Maguire

#36. I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in science fiction is second hand.

Alastair Reynolds

#37. You never really got to know people properly until you had seen them within the ambiance of their own home. Seen their furniture and their books and the manner of their lifestyle.

Rosamunde Pilcher

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

Alfred Lunt

#39. I am always there.
But they don't care if I am
because I am furniture.
I don't get hit
I don't get fondled
I don't get love
because I am furniture
Suits me fine.

Thalia Chaltas

#40. She opens her eyes slowly. It takes her a moment to adjust to the bright kitchen light, shining in her eyes. "Can we rearrange the furniture this weekend?" she asks sleepily. "So when I sleep out here, you don't shine all of Satan's fiery hell lights in my eyes first thing in the morning?

Lisa McMann

#41. And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.

Minoru Yamasaki

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

Billy Casper

#43. 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.

Anne Hathaway

#44. 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.

Simon Van Booy

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

Michael Martin Hammer

#46. I try about four or five looks during a shoot. A look can be defined by changes to hair, makeup, jewelry, props, furniture, background, partial clothing, fabric accents, accessories, lighting, etc.

A.K. Nicholas

#47. You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won't take it.

Mignon McLaughlin

#48. 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.

Arne Jacobsen

#49. Perhaps he should give up on love and just build furniture instead. He could do with a few more free standing wardrobes for a start.

Jenny O'Brien

#50. 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.

Aldous Huxley

#51. Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture.

Lee Daniels

#52. The furniture and trappings in the apartment are all in a state of flux - here today, gone tomorrow. Nothing is anchored to its place, not even the coffee-pot, which floats off and returns, on the tide of the signora's marine nature.

Mary McCarthy

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

Fran Lebowitz

#54. 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.

Gene Hackman

#55. Patty Flood and her good mood were starting to get on my nerves. Her mood was so good it was almost a physical thing, a monkey on a leash that she let leap all over the furniture, delighting only its owner.

Elizabeth McCracken

#56. How do you control your telekinesis while intimate with your mate?"
"I broke a damn lot of furniture at the start, including two beds." A curious glance. "What are you doing?"
"Traveling around the world.

Nalini Singh

#57. 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

#58. The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.

Eric Church

#59. At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.

Jonathan Carroll

#60. Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won't come through.

Susan Sontag

#61. 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.

Terence McKenna

#62. There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero - practically in the world.

Gerry Harvey

#63. 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.

F. Sionil Jose

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

Joseph Roth

#65. An odd arrangement ... to have a couch facing the bed, and I smile to myself - I've picked on the couch as odd, when really it's the most mundane piece of furniture in the room. - Anastasia seeing the playroom for the first time.

E.L. James

#66. The Nazis had broken our windows and torn apart our furniture, but they had not destroyed our selves.

Robert Sharenow

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

Tallulah Bankhead

#68. 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.

Angela Kinsey

#69. 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.

Leslie Mann

#70. 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

#71. 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.

Thomas Middleditch

#72. I started in the industry in Public Relations, Quality Assurance, Information Systems and furniture moving. I tried my hand in design and haven't looked back. I'm fond of hackysack, racquetball, BBQ grilling, hanging out with my wife and friends

Dan Miller

#73. Who has not found the heaven below
Will fail of it above.
God's residence is next to min,
His furniture is love.

Emily Dickinson

#74. 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.

Benjamin Franklin

#75. When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

Anthony Bourdain

#76. I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

Prabal Gurung

#77. 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.

Nina Campbell

#78. Oh, I am just that fabulous. So sex furniture.

Chuck Palahniuk

#79. Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

Jacquelyn Mitchard

#80. Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away with the spouting whales, monsters, waves and other twiddly bits of cartographic furniture that the often forgot to put the boring mountains and rivers in at all.

Terry Pratchett

#81. 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.

Patrick Califia-Rice

#82. There, display and extravagance, in dress, in furniture, in costly entertainments, are startling. They seem to push you back into a corner, like a poor intruder at a feast; they are apt to make you envious, or take your breath away with amazement.

Rabindranath Tagore

#83. One day I picked up the phone to hear a middle-aged female voice asking if there were "any green Salles" left; she wanted to match Salle's art to the color scheme of her living room furniture. It's all such a joke,

Kim Gordon

#84. 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.

Ernest Hemingway,

#85. The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and picks fights or forms alliances. The alliances build new structures, to defend themselves against intruders.

Bernard Beckett

#86. 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.

Nicky Singer

#87. The momentary darkness gave way to scores of small glowing lights. Blaise stepped into a candlelit room filled with people and furniture.
'Where are we?" he asked Livia. "How can a whole other room be here? There were only two rooms on the top floor.

Teresa Flavin

#88. 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

#89. Locking up the house - their home - and driving away. The only slightly good news was that they weren't selling it. Someday, Dad promised, they'd return. The big things - furniture, art,

Kristin Hannah

#90. A new lover. Fresh knowledge and a virgin body to paw. Shopping together for wicker furniture in the mall. Visiting the lingerie store. Picking out matching shotguns.

Kenneth J. Harvey

#91. Pray, for what do we move ever but to get rid of our furniture, our exuviae; at last to go from this world to another newly furnished, and leave this to be burned?

Henry David Thoreau

#92. You need to forget about him and ignore him completely like he's furniture Shivi!!

Ankita Guru

#93. 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

#94. One Hyde Park squatted next to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel like a stack of office furniture, and with all the elegance and charm of the inside of a photocopier. Albeit a brand new photocopier that doubled as a fax and document scanner.

Ben Aaronovitch

#95. So, are you just going to stand there looking like a piece of furniture?

Brenna Yovanoff

#96. Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.

Mason Cooley

#97. One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.

Francis Jourdain

#98. 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.

Tatyana Tolstaya

#99. The bride wore a dress of that peculiar style of calico known as "furniture prints," without trimming or ornaments of any kind. Whether it was cut "bias" or with "gores," I'm sorry to say I don't know, dress-making being as much of an occult science to me as divination.

George Kennan

#100. Also, whenever I read this paragraph to people who don't live in the South, they get hung up on the fact that we had furniture devoted to just guns, but in rural Texas pretty much everyone has a gun cabinet. Unless they're gay. Then they have gun armoires.

Jenny Lawson