Van Day Truex Quotes

#1. If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

Neil Simon

#2. If he wanted to break her curse, he need only find a human girl willing to marry him. But not any girl - a human with ice in her heart, with hatred for our kind. A human girl willing to kill a faerie.

Sarah J. Maas

#3. Rich colors are typical of a rich nature.

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#4. Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two!

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#5. The modern scene in decoration is not a unified or controlled one. The unified control of the arts during the reign of Louis XIV no longer exists; today the designer is free to achieve a wider variety and more personal approach to the interior.

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#6. I stood there feeling the lightness of my bones, knowing now this was not only lack of sleep that had transformed my bones into feathers, but my body's recognition that soon I would be leaving this place I had inhabited for one year, this place made entirely of grief.

Anne Spollen

#7. Whenever I hear someone make a highly improbable assumption, I always ask, "What's your second choice?

Tom Haikin

#8. In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.

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#9. The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#10. There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.

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#11. It is general knowledge for anyone interested in color that subdued value, intensity and hue make for quieter, less adventuresome interiors. Stronger approaches need stronger knowledge, more experience and flair.

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#12. Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never rely on something that someone else has done.

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#13. I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color.

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#14. The easiest approach to any strong color is to use a lot of it, thus unifying a room. However, beware of too many strong colors unless you happen to like living on a battlefield.

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#15. Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management.

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#16. The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.

Paul Eluard

#17. Good design is forever.

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#18. Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.

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#19. What I loved about working for Steve," says Cue, "is that you learned that you could accomplish the impossible. Again and again.

Brent Schlender

#20. It is obvious that any rather non-color, monochromatic design is safe, easier, more generally restful and with life being the hurdy-gurdy that it is, more and more of us prefer and interior giving the maximum response.

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#21. Stop for a moment... let's see what you have skipped!

Deyth Banger

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

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#23. Though firm, we are never too firm, though we love fun, we never have fun in a silly way that makes us appear ridiculous, unless that is our intent.

George Saunders

#24. It takes two years for the salt to reach the center of a wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

Mark Kurlansky

#25. It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

Maisie Williams

#26. How obvious it is that color has its various connotations-hue, value, and intensity - and without the basic understanding of these three determining factors, we are somewhat limited in the proper use of color in rooms.

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#27. Control, edit and distill.

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#28. Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.

Anne Bronte

#29. Remember, color is not just color, but mood, temperature and structure.

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