Furniture Quotes
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
Irvine Welsh
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Arthur had heard Peggy say that she didn’t wish for more comfortable furniture, because if the chairs were softer, company would be inclined to stay longer.
Orson Scott Card -
You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,' Hale said simply, as if that should explain everything. 'Binky has a nasty habit of shedding all over the living room furniture, you see.' Gregory Wainwright nodded as if he understood perfectly. 'And so we had to get new living room furniture, which, unfortunately, does not go with the Monet.' Kat stood there for a moment, staring into that small window of the world where someone would tire of a Monet simply because it clashed with the couch.
Ally Carter -
Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
Natalie Morales -
All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
Ted Williams -
I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
Manolo Blahnik -
I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.
Wendy O. Williams
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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.
Terence McKenna -
I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
Zaha Hadid -
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Wallace Stevens -
We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.
Ban Ki-moon -
Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first room and it's dark, completely dark. You stumble around, bumping into the furniture. Gradually, you learn where each piece of furniture is. And finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch and turn it on. Suddenly, it's all illuminated and you can see exactly where you were. Then you enter the next dark room.
Andrew Wiles -
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.
Bill Withers
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I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky -
We had to buy furniture and computers; we had to put a teacher's desk, wall unit and file cabinet in each classroom. We ordered all those items six months ago from different manufacturers. When they were delivered, they were stored and some pieces had to be assembled. We ordered half a million dollars worth of textbooks. It took a great deal of planning by everyone in the school district - from the custodians planning on how to schedule cleaning to how we were going to supply books and teachers. It was an unbelievably complex project.
J. M. Roberts -
I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
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 -
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 -
The world is a room of heavy furniture. Eventually you are allowed to leave.
Adam Foulds
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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.
Benjamin Rush -
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.
Katharine Hepburn -
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.
Sarah Michelle Gellar -
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.
Elayne Boosler