Best 96 quotes in «furniture quotes» category

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

For instance, [Adolf Hitler] would never have spent the night at the Widenmayerstraße apartment. He visited it before we moved the furniture in, he visited maybe 4 times afterwards and he never spent the entire night.

Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.

I already know how strong you are. You didn't have to break the furniture." —Bella Swan

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

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

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

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.

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

I learned that buying expensive furniture with toddlers around is pointless.

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.

I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization.

I have over 5000 costumes, and the furniture and memorabilia that goes with them.

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.

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

I make very basic country rustic furniture.

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

In my head, my business is architecture and furniture; it's 70 percent Prouvé, and Corbusier, Royer, Jeanneret - they all passed away. So it's retrospective, I'm looking back.

I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

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.

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

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

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.

I only work out because I have high anxiety, and if I don't I tend to... I say I'm like a border collie. If I don't have something to expend my energy, I chew the furniture. So it just helps me level out so I don't do copious amounts of drugs.

I shopped a lot on 1stdibs.com when I first started modelling. Just whenever, I've always been on and bought all my furniture on 1stdibs.com.

Is your relationship strong enough to survive a trip to Ikea? Is their furniture strong enough to survive a relationship? Have you ever bought a bed there?

It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.

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

It's trust issue more than anything. I mean, whats stopping them from teaming up, dressing up like a really tall person in a trenchcoat, and then BAM. They sneak out with all your furniture

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up.

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

I've read about all the sales today. If you're an auto dealer, you're feeling it. If you're a furniture retailer like we are, you're feeling it. If you're a jewelry retailer, you're feeling it. I know some of these businesses because we're in them. Yeah, it's being felt, but it will be felt big time more if we don't do something about it, what's going on.

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.

No: What the heck happened? Or: Why did you go from nearly kissing me to tossing me across your yard and into the patio furniture?

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.

Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.

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

The key to life was rearranging the furniture.

My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture.

That furniture cost me a fortune! It's designer furniture." "Designed by whom ? Darth Vader ? The Hitler Youth ?

The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.

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

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.

There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

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.

There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.

There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.