Furniture Quotations

If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks.

Actors spend most of their time out of work, so I actually spend more time making furniture. The thing about furniture that's much better than acting is that it's just me. There's no director, no script - the concept is me, unless a client wants something.

I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.

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.

The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot.

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

A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary.

I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.

I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.

The Eisenhower Building - the furniture is mismatched; everything is just bad decor and bad quality. Everybody's looking down at their Blackberry. It's a really frantic, mismatched environment. But on the exterior, it's this whitewashed, gorgeous building. It's a fascinating contrast.

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

My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn't make me any more graceful - they just helped keep me from bumping into the furniture on stage.

When you're choosing furniture for your home that's supposed to express who you are, what you are also saying is you want other people to infer what you want them to infer. What if they see something different? Wouldn't it be really depressing if you're trying to be bohemian and instead they see you as Rush Limbaugh?

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.

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

My parents did not pay a cent for my education; they didn't give me a car or furniture - I did that 100% on my own. I had to pay back a lot.

I will not serve lunch to anyone in the middle of a workday. I rarely rearrange my furniture or cabinets; once I find a drawer for something, it stays there. I don't garden. And I don't knit.

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.

If you're entering a room for the first time, do it the way you would in life - look around; see how they have the furniture arranged. If your character is meeting another character for the first time, meet them the way you would in life.

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with Bob Crosby's band - but he had to give up show business when his father died. He had to come back to Montgomery and take over the furniture store.

My favorite piece of furniture is my bed, cause' it's fluffy and so comfortable!

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.

My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing break.

Every time I score the passion comes out and I try to relay that back to the fans and to the players and the staff how grateful I am to be playing for such a good football club. The fans have taken well to me. I am part of the furniture at Everton, but I don't take it for granted.

I want to design jewelry for girls and guys... I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design, probably when I'm just designing furniture and buildings, I'll probably being the jewelry thing, too.

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

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

I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.

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

The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor.

There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.

I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it.

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

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

It was fairly obvious to anyone who studied the situation that China was dumping bedroom furniture in the U.S. to the detriment of our American workers and manufacturers to gain market access and share.

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

I moved to Hollywood when I was 22. I was married. I had a kid right away. And I had worked as a furniture mover amongst various other jobs, and I'd work eight, ten hours a day to support my family - and I'd come home and write for two hours a night or two and a half, or three hours a night.

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.

Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

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

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

Sometimes I fantasize that all my furniture has been destroyed in a cataclysm, and I have to start again with only the stationery catalogue. My entire house would become an office, which would be an overt recognition of the existing state of affairs.

The elements that create glamour are not specific styles - bias-cut gowns or lacquered furniture - but more general qualities: grace, mystery, transcendence. To the right audience, Halle Berry is more glamorous commanding the elements as Storm in the X-Men movies than she is walking the red carpet in a designer gown.

If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.

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

I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

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.

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.

When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she'd pay a little toward the purchase.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don't have a lot of furniture in our house, so it's really simple. And we're trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don't want to get isolated to do that.

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

We are proud to be able to carry traditional Chinese furniture styles that were popular in the 12th century.

There are companies that will rent furniture for houses on sale.

There are some excellent city shops, but watch out for the big box stores where guy selling you skis today is moving onto patio furniture next month.

When we first opened we wanted the restaurant to be slow- paced, the bar area with its couches to be medium-paced and this bit to be fast-paced. That's why we had square tables and wooden padded chairs here. The furniture wasn't bad but it was harder than it is now. Then we had a rethink and decided that really we didn't want anywhere in here to feel as though there should be a quick turnaround, so we moved in round tables and curved, leather seats.

When we first came to Pascagoula, we saw him quite a lot. He came in here a lot and we always thought he was quite a gentleman and very nice, very pleasant. My son rented furniture from him and he was very nice to him. We always felt he was a kind person and very good to do business with.

We bring up old beams out of Mexico that are 150 to 200 years old. This goes a long way in making furniture appear authentically old and rustic.

We're far from dead, as some would suggest. We're still around, and we'll stay around. We've been a successful niche market catering to promotional and mid-priced furniture manufacturers and retailers, and we'll continue to do so.

Ultimately, I'm responsible for the care and well-being of the horses, and I did not feel comfortable with the situation. I don't feel you can train horses from 2,000 miles away, from the back of a furniture store.

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

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

If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

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

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

We did not expect it to be catastrophic. I expected to come back to a mess, maybe our furniture and clothes would be all wet, then we thought maybe the worst was that the house would be gutted.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

The only preparations I made were getting ice, batteries, and canned foods. I also place my lawn furniture inside so that the wind will not blow it away.

No furniture is so charming as books.

We have quite a few styles that perform more than one function to fulfill small- or limited-space needs. Most of Ikea's furniture is designed around the European market, which is calling out for smaller-scale items.

When I decided to go to L.A. I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York.

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

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

We're looking forward to working with other local showroom owners to promote the continued success of the furniture market in North Carolina. Hopefully, we'll bring fresh insight and renewed energy to the High Point showroom scene.

We've taken a wall out of one room because the class was too small and we just didn't have enough space. We've brought in all of the furniture that's here. We've just received some new furniture not too long ago. We've had things painted. We've also wired the entire building for Internet access.

Lots of things made it special. It was the most current of the hotels, and it boasted 100 baths, some private and some shared. It was very sumptuous. The furniture was lavish; there were beautiful imported carpets; beautiful draperies and blinds; telephones; electricity; and all the latest innovations.

Learn your lines and don't trip over the furniture

Many companies are under pressure to keep their costs down, but they don't steal their office furniture off the truck, ... One of the reasons people steal software is that it's easy to do.

No one should let their guard down. Rivers are at dangerously high levels. It's not the time to go out and put the lawn furniture back up.

My dad came over from Ireland when he was 13 and lived on the streets, working on building sites, and has just retired from his job delivering furniture for John Lewis. My mum has had the same job for 30 years as a sales assistant at Marks and Spencer. They've always been really great; they just want me to be happy.

Pottery Barn's had a big influence on the furniture industry. We have a lot of similar items that you can take home now and in a lot of cases, better quality.

One of the first projects that we have is a $15 million room renovation. We are going to renovate virtually all our guest rooms. New everything - new bathrooms, new bedding, furniture and soft goods; just a complete redo. We've got a lot of capital projects lined up behind that.

I grew up in a time when Eames and Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and other architects were putting their furniture and objects on the market. You could buy some of those objects on the open market. Eames was a huge influence on all of us in school.

I don't know at this point what else we can do, and I can't imagine us funneling tax dollars into the Furniture Market, ... It would have to be something with infrastructure, and they've already got the infrastructure.

I'd like to reach some of the people who are moving out of the area and don't want to bring all their furniture with them.

Basically my car's is pretty bad shape and I won't be able to run it at Airborne, ... But I'll be there with a car...Earlier this week, I got a call from Mike Sangermano, who owns a Late Model that runs at Waterford Speedbowl...We're going to combine the two teams for Sunday's Furniture World of Vermont Fall Foliage 150 and hope for the best.

Basically, it's a cabin we have that we're trying to get some furniture into and get it ready to move into.

Furniture manufacturers will clearly be nervous with the potential (of) slowing in the housing sector.

Furniture doesn't typically spell romance. A sporting goods store is another off-beat destination. I mean, what would you get? A paddle, a tennis racquet?

If a piece of furniture is top-heavy or unstable, fasten it to a wall using angle braces or anchors. Keep heavier items on lower shelves or in lower drawers.

If the furniture doesn't come, I'll scrounge up some old stuff myself.

He was there before the furniture was in.