Furniture Quotes - Page 2

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

Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.

I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding.

The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.

I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.

To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.

The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.

Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.

No furniture is so charming as books.

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.

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

I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

It is not enough just to open the door to the rooms of power. We have to get inside and rearrange the furniture!

I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically, since I now live in capitalism. It was certainly 'realism', but in another form - the capitalist form, as it were. It wasn't meant that seriously. It was more a slogan for that particular Happening at a furniture store.

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

Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.

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

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.