Furniture Quotes

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.

A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.

It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.

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.

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

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

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

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

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

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.

What was I drinking last night? Furniture polish?

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

... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year.

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.

I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.

On Furnishing One's Home - Pick your furniture like you pick a wife; it should make you feel comfortable and look nice, but not so nice that if someone walks past it they want to steal it.

The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.

I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space.

While I was gone, somebody rearranged on the furniture in my bedroom. They put it in exactly the same place it was. When I told my roommate, he said: "Do I know you?"

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

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.

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.

I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

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

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.

A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a bit like mixing a salade. (I am better at room than salads).

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.

How hard is hitting? You ever walk into a pitch-black room full of furniture that you've never been in before and try to walk through it without bumping into anything? Well, it's harder than that.

Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write.

No furniture is so charming as books.

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

If I could find a real life place to make me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name.

The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy. - Wally's Keynote Speech

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

People buy very badly made furniture and fabric. Instead, buy a beautiful dining table, well-made upholstery. It's almost like dressing for success.

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.

I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.

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

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

I speak in a loud, clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

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

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

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

The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.