THIS EDITION: furnish :: furniture
Quoted In The Grove:
Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.
~Dee Hock
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
~Wallace Stevens
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
~Peter Ustinov
EndQuote:
It is true, Reason is not sufficient to bring us to a perfect Knowledge of all Things, but it is able to furnish us with enough to make us happy, and that is as much as we need care for.
~Thomas Burnet
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The best aphorisms are…. portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.
~William Rounseville Alger
It is in fact one of the charms of the book, that it has gathered its contents from almost every latitude and longitude, and sometimes from the opposite poles of thought. Jew, Pagan, and Christian—classic and patristic—primitive and recent authors—furnish each his quota to the design. Men are here found standing side by side who were wide apart in time, space, and character—agreeing in nothing, except that they thought on the same subject, and thought well.
~James Elmes, 1863
Next to the simile is the quotation. But this is a science by itself, on which some ingenious person has composed a large volume, by the aid of which, and an index, the most unfurnished head is able to cope with the most learned.
~The London Magazine
…and as people like to lay out their money according to their notions, our writers usually furnish their pages rapidly with the productions of their own soil… The greater part of our writers, in consequence, have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them; and those who never quote, in return are never quoted!
~Isaac D’Israeli
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There’s a real hunger to understand where objects come from, how artists show their understanding of materials. And there’s something fascinating about watching people work, whether it’s someone engraving a gun or sewing beautiful clothes together. I know that myself; I’ll make a piece of furniture and feel the wood’s grain talking to me.
~David Linley
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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.
~Bernard Beckett
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment, and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr (comma added for clarity)
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Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
~Akhenaton
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe for felicity. The idle are the only wretched. In a world which furnishes so many emploiments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui is…
~Thomas Jefferson
It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
~Emmet Fox
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Give me something to assemble, I won’t look at the directions, I’ll try to figure it out by myself. It’s why I love Ikea furniture.
~Dave Grohl
I’m a master assembler of Ikea furniture, in case anyone wants to know.
~Allison Williams
I live by fallacy. ‘If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I’ll be a grown-up.’ Then I catch myself. Or, ‘If I get off by myself, away from the stress of modern life, I’ll be OK.’ Then I catch myself.
~Chuck Palahniuk
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
~Kate Chopin
I had rather fashion my soul than furnish it. There is no weaker or stronger occupation than that of entertaining a man’s own thoughts according as the soul is; the greatest men make it their whole business…
~Michel de Montaigne
So in the world; ’tis furnish’d well with men,
And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive;
Yet in the number I do know but one
That unassailable holds on his rank,
Unshaked of motion: and that I am he,
~William Shakespeare
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Posted From The Grove
The surveyors brought back more tarantulas with them, and so we had quite a menagerie arranged along the shelves of the room. Some of these spiders could straddle over a common saucer with their hairy, muscular legs, and when their feelings were hurt, or their dignity offended, they were the wickedest-looking desperadoes the animal world can furnish. If their glass prison-houses were touched ever so lightly they were up and spoiling for a fight in a minute. Starchy?— proud? Indeed, they would take up a straw and pick their teeth like a member of Congress.
~Mark Twain
History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory.
~James Howard Kunstler
And I like the idea of change. Because I don’t see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it’s there like a piece of furniture.
~Minoru Yamasaki
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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.
~Tony Hale
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This nation has given the world an object lesson in the whole duty of neutrals, which is to furnish an outlet for the wrath of a belligerent who is annoyed because he cannot defeat his opponent.
~Elmer Davis
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The Swedish government needs to understand that relations in the Middle East are more complicated than a piece of furniture from IKEA that you assemble at home.
~Avigdor Lieberman
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The proverbs of a nation furnish the index to its spirit and the results of its civilization.
~Timothy Titcomb
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I should be pleased to see all the nations on the earth prosperous and happy and rich, for it would furnish to me the best evidence of the prosperity of my native land.
~John Tyler
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Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.
~Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales)
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
~Niccolo Machiavelli
Osama bin Laden characterized his terrorist activities as ‘defensive jihad,’ provoked by ‘debauched infidels’ bent on enslaving the Muslim world. The lead industry blamed ‘ignorant parents’ for applying lead paint to juvenile furniture.
~Albert Bandura
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
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Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.
~Yair Lapid
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
~Thomas Jefferson
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Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.
~William Graham Sumner
One winter, I went to Erfoud to research trilobites and got to know the quarries, the dealers, and the remote mining villages. They are not easy places to visit, and this was a completely unknown corner of the world economy: children slaving away on desert cliffs to furnish wealthy collectors in San Francisco.
~Lawrence Osborne
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If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?
~W E B Du Bois
Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their ‘white’ culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.
~Langston Hughes
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
~Tatyana Tolstaya
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~Mayyas Official: HORRA (4:54) dance as choreographed spectacle
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~Great Big Story: The Furniture Farmer (2:42) growing chairs
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~Harris Sockel: 16 Stories of My Favorite Writing Advice & Inspo
This begins a series of prods and aids for writers in the making. Check the menu. Something here may be new, or a useful reminder for you.
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I started off by doing everything myself, driving the truck, going to the woodshop, buying the wood, designing the furniture, cutting it out, making it myself, finishing it, polishing it, and delivering it, and writing the invoice and writing the letters, doing the books, doing the telephone bill and everything else like that.
~David Linley
When I left Parnham aged 18, I could easily have ended up twiddling my thumbs in a workshop all week. But I lucked out and found an agent who immediately got me work and before long there was enough demand for my furniture to start a shop.
David Linley
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My theory was that good furniture could be priced so that the man with the flat wallet would be attracted to it, would make a place for it in his spending, and could afford it.
~Ingvar Kamprad (Ikea)
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There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero ‒ practically in the world.
~Gerry Harvey
Netbot was the first comparison shopping company. We realized comparison shopping can be quite tedious if you are driving from one furniture store to another. On the Internet, you can automatically look at a bunch of different stores and see where can you get the best price on a computer or some such thing, so that was the motivation.
~Oren Etzioni
My favorite website is The Daily Beast, and I also like 1stdibs.com, where I’ll browse for great rugs or classic furniture.
~Rande Gerber
Even one’s own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There’s nothing ‘natural’ about one’s home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment ‒ we’re living inside commercials.
~J G Ballard
I’m quite enthusiastic about any kind of gadget and app and feature and things that enable me to have a very convenient lifestyle. We buy our groceries on the Internet; I buy furniture, clothes for myself and my kids.
~Margrethe Vestager
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I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
~Barbra Streisand
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.
~Robert Kiyosaki
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.
~Ursula Andress
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My dad was in furniture for 35 years. He got run out of furniture when everything went to China, went overseas. Manufacturing in the country broke down. Everything left.
~Eric Church
If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I’ve worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.
~David Autor
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In our early days, being recognized on any list of great companies was hard to imagine. There were times when we sold the office furniture to make payroll.
~Bobby Kotick
I’ve talked to several CEOs ‒ from a recycling company in Indiana, a furniture company in Kentucky, a brewing company in Colorado, and more ‒ who believe paying higher wages is both the right thing to do and part of a successful business model.
~Tom Perez
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It was likewise accepted by many as an economic axiom that the free spending of money, regardless of the purpose, needs, or occasion of the spending, was a good thing for the business interests of the country. The indulgence in extravagance by the wealthy was looked on with favor because it was said such practice “keeps money in circulation, furnishes employment for those who otherwise would be idle, and lends encouragement to lines of business that thrive on the reckless expenditures of the improvident.”
~S W Straus
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Mountains and oceans do not furnish any impassable barrier to the extension of trade.
~Henry J Heinz
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I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can’t think if I’m wrong I’ll blow $30,000.
~Jennifer Tilly
I mean, in A ball, there were five of us in a two-bedroom apartment. In Double-A, I think there were like eight of us in a four-bedroom house… and the whole time, you’re sleeping on air mattresses and you’re using Rubbermaid bins as furniture.
~Sean Doolittle
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My brother and I loved to body-slam each other when we were kids. We tore up a lot of furniture.
~Mark Henry
I just broke up all the furniture in the house. My mother had to get rid of me. So she put me in dance class.
~Chita Rivera
I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house.
~Nadia Comaneci
Now that I’m a mom, I’m way more laid back. If you come into my house, don’t look for a coaster. Forget it. There is not a piece of furniture in my house now that is too precious.
~Angela Kinsey
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The thing I like about my body is that it’s strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse… I can play basketball. It’s a well functioning machine.
~Cindy Crawford
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The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.
~Gene Hackman
Audition is the worst thing. It’s like cleaning furniture in a department store.
~Udo Kier
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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.
~Charles Nelson Reilly
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I never felt that I was recognised for anything in particular. I was just part of the TV furniture.
~Hugh Dennis
I don’t want to play father roles. And I use father roles figuratively for roles that are just hanging around… don’t want to be a piece of furniture in films.
~Rishi Kapoor
I’d rather sit at home than be a part of a popular show and be a piece of furniture.
~Ashish Sharma
Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I’ve got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I’m asking you to move furniture.
~Lee Daniels
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I don’t know why modeling worked for me, because I’m short. But I liked it because it let me buy my own furniture.
~Riley Keough
I’ve been really lucky. When I decided to go to LA 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.
~Estella Warren
My salary for ‘Splash‘ was $350,000. I got about $800,000 for ‘Summer Rental.’ So, yes, I thought, ‘Well, here’s a chance to get some furniture for the house and some clothes for the kids.’
~John Candy
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It’s so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that there are no props or costumes or furniture, so the performers can be anywhere doing anything; cut from underground to space, and it doesn’t matter.
~Andy Daly
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The elements that create glamour are not specific styles ‒ bias-cut gowns or lacquered furniture ‒ but more general qualities: grace, mystery, transcendence.
~Virginia Postrel
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I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
~Frank Lloyd Wright
I’ve experienced firsthand the disconnect between furniture, their environments, and the way people work.
~Joe Gebbia
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.
~Toni Tennille
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Know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.
~Spencer Tracy
Just say the lines and don’t trip over the furniture.
~Noel Coward
I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don’t bump into the furniture.
~Danny Bonaduce
The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.
~Alfred Lunt
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I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it’s set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!
~Peter Mullan
Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers ‒ even if you don’t see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met.
~John Lasseter
Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, ‘West Side Story‘ incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.
~John Lahr
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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.
~Debbie Allen
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I just saw ‘Tiny Furniture‘ and became so obsessed with it that Judd Apatow jokes that I’m the distributor of it. I was making copies and giving them out.
~Jennifer Konner
When the mumblecore ‘Tiny Furniture‘ thing happened, it reminded me of the thing we were trying to do in my little 1995 way.
~Susanna Fogel
I really want to make something that makes people think. I love that movie ‘Tiny Furniture‘ that Lena Dunham made. I just love that movie, and I laugh at that movie a lot, but I also felt a lot too. I’m just inspired by people like that.
~Jason Nash
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The Box would not play ‘Takin’ These‘ because we had a scene where we were taking furniture out of Rockefeller’s mansion and giving the stuff out on the street for free.
~Boots Riley
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Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.
~Alexandra Adornetto
The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother’s house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
~Ingmar Bergman
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When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don’t feel very good.
~Al Goldstein
People rich enough to redecorate every 10 months are certainly careless with antique furniture. I found four 1760 French side chairs, tapestry seats intact. Claiming them proved easier than persuading any cabdriver to transport the things.
~Allan Gurganus
I don’t have any furniture of mine in my room.
~Marc Newson
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I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.
~Margaret O’Brien
A bit of me would like to be a furniture designer or a criminal profiler.
~Anna Madeley
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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.
~Christina Baker Kline (author)
Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
~Todd Gitlin
My former assistant used to tell me I have a problem with cushions and she was totally right. The reason is because I’m constantly rearranging things in my house. And if I can’t move a whole piece of furniture, the easiest thing to rearrange is cushions. I like to keep things fresh.
~Marcela Valladolid
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When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn’t know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were ‘dance’ and ‘Michael Jackson.’ We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
~M.I.A.
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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.
~Paul Haggis
I worked as an interior designer. I worked as a furniture salesman. I worked as a financial adviser. I worked as a painter and decorator that wasn’t for very long. I was a baker for about four-and-a-half years.
~Anton du Beke
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I like to hike and cook. I enjoy furniture and design ‒ not making it, just looking at it. I’m always kind of trying to spread my interests around and try new things.
~Kevin Bacon
I’m always moving furniture and things around in my house.
~Belinda Johnson
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~Marquee Louisville: Blackbird (16:03) AI, but is it love
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~jivko darakchiev: À Table (5:54) daring, darling even… but is it dining
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~Hero Status Films: Couch (5:31) old furniture, fight is heirloom
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Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.
~Tamara Taylor
It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two.
~Mercedes McCambridge
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I think backgrounds are important. We all should know what suits us best for what we are, or for the role we want to play, and furnish our homes accordingly.
~Agnes Moorehead
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?
~Sheena Iyengar
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The difference between me and a lot of other people is I can feel the effect of light, space, furniture, height, scale, distance, all these micro-environments affect me in a strong way.
~Miguel McKelvey
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I always encourage my young clients just starting to create a home, to buy at least one piece of investment furniture, or accessory, or piece of art each year rather than following a trend that will come along, be copied cheaply for the mass market and then be gone.
~Hilary Farr
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I learned how to incorporate heirloom furniture, artwork and objects d’art to work with exciting new contemporary pieces.
~Hilary Farr
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I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.
~Aerin Lauder
Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
~Natalie Morales
A house full of new furniture doesn’t mean a whole lot.
~Lindsey Buckingham
It’s so important for people to have a space that they love, and that you wake up happy every morning in your house. A big part of that is what you have for your furniture, your art, your decor.
~Drew Scott
I actually have a hard time finding furniture I like.
~Christina Anstead
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To be weighed down by things ‒ books, furniture ‒ seems somehow terrible to me.
~Claire Messud
In my humble opinion, having tons of products and furniture and magazines and clothes is not luxurious ‒ living minimally is.
~Emily Weiss
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.
~Hilary Mantel
Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.
~Luca Guadagnino
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I’m not an interior decorator; I’m a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you’ve got big trouble.
~Anouska Hempel
My favorite piece of furniture is my bed, cause’ it’s fluffy and so comfortable!
~Vivica A Fox
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
~Nate Berkus
I love having beautiful furniture and things, but I don’t want my space to look like a showroom.
~Brad Goreski
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In close-nailed furniture, if the nails used are identical they have been manufactured industrially, which implies a date after 1850.
~David Linley
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I do know people who buy these huge houses but I always think, ‘What about all that furniture? You’re never even going to sit on it!’ I don’t want to rattle round in a big house.
~Neil Morrissey
In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.
~Stephen Gardiner
I don’t enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.
~Kevin McCloud
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I love white linens and walls mixed with antique Victorian furniture.
~Mary Helen Bowers
Everybody knows I’m interior-design obsessed because when I got my office, I came in and painted everything and put all-white furniture in. People would literally go, ‘Can we just stop by and peek in your office? We heard it’s fabulous.’
~Tish Cyrus
Cozy, I think. Cozy and well-appointed is what’s wanted in a home.
~author unknown
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I’ve always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic ‒ you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.
~Zaha Hadid
I’m a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.
~Kelly Wearstler
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Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.
~Joe Gebbia
I’m always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.
~Janina Gavankar
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Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.
~Anthea Turner
I have a vintage bohemian style of decor with a lot of candles, and second hand furniture and my crystals and my books and plants.
~Jessica Origliasso
You don’t need to rip open walls to transform a space. One of the big things that count is furniture design and painting things you can do yourself ‒ that alone can transform the space.
~Drew Scott
You can go to any second-hand store and get an amazing piece ‒ I have pieces from flea markets at home. You don’t need to buy throwaway furniture.
~Marcel Wanders
I’m usually able to reuse at least 50 percent of the clients’ furniture. Most times, I’ll just clean it up, make it look like new, and that’s the best way to save money.
~Jonathan Scott
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The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It’s good to have an influence.
~Olivier Theyskens
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.
~Tyler, The Creator
I’m fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.
~Prabal Gurung
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To be able to make furniture has always been a fantasy of mine.
~Jonathan Anderson
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§ MUSIC:
There’s something special in music about the repetition of playing something where it becomes a home and a fortress and a space that you inhabit, like maybe we could move this little thing here, or rearrange the furniture. You’re so acquainted with every part of it.
~Adrianne Lenker
AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.
~Joe Perry
Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing ‒ which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.
~Skitch Henderson
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
~Izaak Walton
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I’ve never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
~Manolo Blahnik
When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn’t need aerodynamic furniture.
~Emilio Pucci
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I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.
~Erin Wasson
If I had to choose between clothes and furniture, I’d choose furniture.
~Julianne Moore
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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I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.
~Mikhail Khodorkovsky
I make very basic country rustic furniture.
~Thomas Middleditch
I really do build furniture to be used, you see, to be lived with.
~David Linley
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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.
~Anna Sui
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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.
~Arne Glimcher
I had fancied that the freezing of sound was necessary to be wrapped up and preserved in breath; but I found my mistake when I also heard the sounds of musical instruments which played at length as the thaw continued. These sounds that melted and became audible furnished us with a great deal of mirth in our return to England…
~Isaac Bickerstaff
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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.
~Robert Wilson
I was looking for some vintage furniture, and I came across this booth where they sold old pictures. This guy didn’t just have things in a box; he had really curated his collection. Each image was like this little folk masterpiece.
~Ransom Riggs
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I love the way the Victorians found a way to put faces in everything: you know, furniture and marble and, you know, everywhere you turn around ‒ the banister, you know, there’s someone looking at you.
~Gillian Flynn
I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.
~Kelly Wearstler
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As for buying new things, it all depends on what really attracts you. It could be anything from art installations to silver, sculptures and new furniture. The whole idea is to give the environment an auspicious touch to let in new energy.
~Sussanne Khan
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I bought two sculptures of two baboons called Lord and Lady Muck on an antique piece of furniture from an art exhibition, and it was quite expensive. It was very expensive, actually ‒ way too expensive.
~Noel Fielding
For the novice furniture collector, buying antiques can seem a rather daunting prospect. Nobody wants to feel that they may not make a wise choice and that ultimately they could be throwing their money away. The main thing is that you should always buy something first and foremost because you like it.
~David Linley
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When I was younger and obsessed with becoming an artist, the hospital was my New York loft apartment. I would move the furniture around to create space on the floor, throw down some sheets and indulge in any form of art that I could get my hands on.
~Claire Wineland (dead of cystic fibrosis @21)
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There are people I’ve worked with who have never understood how fashion works. They keep saying they love fashion, yet they’ve never actually grasped that this isn’t yoghurt or a piece of furniture ‒ products in the purest sense of the term.
~Nicolas Ghesquiere
Color is a big part of what I do. It’s like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there’s no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.
~Evelyn Lauder
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In the Virginia of the olden time no breakfast or tea-table was thought to be properly furnished without a plate of beaten biscuits… Let one spend the night at some gentleman-farmer’s home, and the first sound heard in the morning, after the crowing of the cock, was the heavy, regular fall of the cook’s axe, as she beat and beat her biscuit dough.
~Mary Stuart Smith, 1885
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NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest Songs & Mini-Concerts: Theme is variety
~Souki: Abakis ‒ Home (2:59) folk trio rhapsodizing about…
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~Mighty K Bot: Shiloh Hill • Seasons (3:50) home-grown love of music
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~Jackie Junkies: Jackie Evancho – Handel • Ombra mai fu (3:56) tiny being the operative word
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~Vanessa Reynolds: Dua Lipa ‒ Concert (15:33) stylish return
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~Julio Llorente AMC: Silvana Estrada ‒ Concert (20:24) in Spanish
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~jasapaal: Bill Frisell ‒ Concert (19:59) voice of a guitar unleashed
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~Sam Cansaya: Talyor Swift ‒ Concert (28:55) it’s Taylor, live
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~Gunnar Widowski: Nané ‒ Blue Velvet (3:37) where else but a laundromat
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~Vama Music: Bed for Love (3:48) bad for love
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~Ross Langtree: Couch Potato (3:30) Home-grown smarts out on a lark
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~Inamible Romina: Peter Gabriel & Sinéad O’Connor • Don’t Give Up (Chile, 1990) (7:20) beauty of irony turned sad
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~Hamdaoui Abdelkader: vedio desk (3:50) high energy dance, gyrating bodies
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~APLUSFILMZ: Roddy Ricch ‒ (Home) Concert (14:08) melody of rap
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~M Sharkey Studio: Joseph Keckler (18:57) poetry rendered as music
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
~H Jackson Brown, Jr
I’ve owned more sofas than I’ve had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.
~Janet Street-Porter
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
~Voltaire
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My wife even thinks our next album should be recorded in our house, and we should move all the furniture out to the garage. I’m not sure how many spouses would be supportive of that, much less come up with the idea.
~Brandi Carlile
Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now.
~Elton John
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Until you get pregnant, you never know about baby brands and baby furniture…
~Katie Lowes
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When Elon was 17 and my daughter was 15, they really wanted to move to Canada, where my family is from. I said no, because I wanted to do a Ph.D. in Johannesburg, and I was getting lots of modeling work there. But Elon and I went over to visit, and while I was gone my daughter sold my home and my car and had a big garage sale with all my furniture.
~Maye Musk
I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.
~William Shakespeare
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Like, yes, we had a furniture fire get out of control in our backyard one time. But that didn’t harm a single person.
~Jake Paul
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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.
~Constance Wu
I did art; I made furniture. I didn’t want to be a cliche ‒ the Beatle’s son who became a musician.
~James McCartney
When I wanted to go away to college in Toronto, my dad said, ‘You can’t go.’ When I got to Toronto, I bought a couch, and my dad cried for the whole weekend because, as my mum told me, ‘Now you have furniture; he knows you are never coming back.’
~Nia Vardalos
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…a house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment, unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising six weeks.
~Robert Southey
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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
~Paul Klee
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.
~Tove Lo
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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.
~Leslie Mann
I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
~Nate Berkus
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I came out of the womb drawing on everything; I used to draw on my mother’s white furniture and her white walls with her red lipstick and my pencils. Little did she know that would later materialize into me doing what I do now – I’m a painter as well…
~Aldis Hodge
I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.
~Ty Pennington
You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, ‘Stop being rude,’ ‘Stop shouting,’ ‘Stop jumping around on the furniture.’ But ‘Stop showing off’? That’s awful.
~Charles Dance
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I have a big brother who would make dolls’ houses and playhouses and furniture out of wood. He was the one who taught me from such a young age that you could just make something. The physical act of gluing something together was really formative for me.
~Miranda July
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
~Rachel Sklar
I’ve got a friend who’s a builder, a friend in marketing, a friend who does furniture removals… It’s good to stay grounded like that.
~Alex Roe
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No, I’m so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that’s always been around that they’re not going to throw out.
~Jacki Weaver
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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.
~Nicole Holofcener
I remember my mom would read the newspaper, and if she saw a place that was cheaper in rent, we were gone. She’d pack everything up, move the furniture and we were out of there.
~Jason Sehorn
My grandmother was divorced, and she had 10 children herself. She never finished high school. She started selling lace on the side of the road and then grew that into a multimillion-dollar business ‒ a retail store selling mostly furniture and appliances.
~Ann-Marie Campbell
This circus that’s advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by a woman, one whose pluck catches my sympathy every time.
~Wild Bill Hickok
In retrospect, I have come to recognise just how astounding my mother was during our childhood. She kept a woodwork shop and made beautiful furniture, as well as raising the pair of us in a society dominated by men. There really is nothing like war to reveal the power of patriarchy, but she always retained her independence.
~Alexandra Fuller
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I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.
~Les Dawson
I like living sparsely. In the main room, there’s no furniture ‒ no tables, no chairs, no coffee table ‒ not even a decaffeinated coffee table.
~Sebastian Horsley
We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
~Robin Williams
I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.
~Tim Conway
Spring Cleaning! A most idiotic name! Any man could tell you it’s actually spring dirtying. All the dust that has settled down quietly, and doesn’t show and only asks to be left alone, germs and all, is stirred up. Everybody is choked and as far as possible infected. Instead of being under the carpet, it’s on your furniture and in your food. There’s nowhere to sleep and nothing to eat; nowhere even to sit down. The moment you try disaster comes. You are told to get out of the way; you are pushed here and there; you step in things you are warned to avoid; you—oh, confound it all!… It’s not till the next spring cleaning comes round that you find your most treasured possessions, and then the cleaner sees to it that you lose them again instantly.
~Edward Burke
GLOBE An all-round proposition which has furnished its shareholders a living for several thousand years, though its stock is two-thirds water.
~Charles Wayland Towne
So the bottom line is that home centers are even worse than lumberyards as a source for lumber. The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
~Dave Barry
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Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze ‒ just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they’re all ‘Made in Italy.’ We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians.
~Lapo Elkann
Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture ‒ furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small.
~Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
I always felt like I was kind of an outsider because I didn’t have the right things. I didn’t have a Cadillac. I didn’t have, you know, plastic on my furniture. That was the right way to be if you were Italian.
~Leah Remini
I think the set looks great. It’s kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.
~Thom Filicia
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There are apothecaries’ shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers’ shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price.
~Hernan Cortes
I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.
~Lisa Marie Presley
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.
~Kelly Wearstler
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
~Tad Williams
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It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.
~Stephen Bayley
Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects ‒ furniture, clothes, jewellery ‒ that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.
~Carl Honore
The maker movement is about people who want to gain more control of the human design world that they interact with every day. Instead of accepting off-the-shelf solutions from institutions and corporations, makers would like to make, modify, and repair their own tools, clothing, food, toys, furniture, and other physical objects.
~Mark Frauenfelder
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It is funny, the things you miss about a more conventional lifestyle. I miss seemingly mundane tasks, like cleaning the kitchen, moving my furniture around to achieve just the right look, and checking the mailbox. I miss making my bed in the morning before work.
~Lauren Gibbs
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As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative itself, but also in creating the emotional and psychological atmosphere of that narrative – the imaginative furniture, as it were, in which any story unfolds.
~John Burnside
Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package.
~Jon Katz
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
~Fran Lebowitz
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One farmer says to me, “You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;” and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones, walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plough along in spite of every obstacle.
~Henry David Thoreau
I was a fairly strict vegetarian – I ate eggs and dairy products but nothing that would involve killing an animal to furnish the food on my plate.
~Alice Roberts
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If you have problems of conduct that are difficult and hard to settle, I will furnish you with solutions, for I not only know matters of practice and duty, but I even know them beforehand.
~Apollonius of Tyana
I believe I am not interested to know whether Vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn’t. To know that the results are profitable to the race would not remove my hostility to it. The pains which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity towards it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further. It is so distinctly a matter of feeling with me, and is so strong and so deeply-rooted in my make and constitution, that I am sure I could not even see a vivisector vivisected with anything more than a sort of qualified satisfaction. I do not say I should not go and look on; I only mean that I should almost surely fail to get out of it the degree of contentment which it ought, of course, to be expected to furnish.
~Mark Twain
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@Writers Platform:
For one moment he stood outside on the flagged walk and let the sun soak into him; then he returned, took up his letters and withdrew into the deep peace of his study. Sunshine and the smell of lavender and roses streamed into it from the garden. It was lined with books…
~May Sinclair
He had now not only a bedroom, but a study, furnished with a simplicity that had the effect of luxury, and lined from floor to ceiling with his books.
~May Sinclair
Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!
~Henry Ward Beecher
I couldn’t live a week without a private library ‒ indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
~H P Lovecraft
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You can’t love a library of e-books. You can’t furnish a room with e-books.
~Joanna Trollope
Books do furnish a room.
~Anthony Powell
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Flowers about a rich man’s house may signify only that he has a good gardener, or that he has refined neighbors, and does what he sees them do. But, if on visiting the dwelling of a man of slender means, I find the reason why he has cheap carpets and very plain furniture to be that he may purchase books, he rises at once in my esteem. Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house… Let us pity those poor rich men who live barrenly in great, bookless houses!
~Henry Ward Beecher
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A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can’t stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can’t live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff ‒ mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.
~Frank Gehry
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In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors’.
~Emanuel Celler
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
~Anthony Burgess
There’s no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can’t put your feet up on it and a dog can’t jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.
~Elizabeth Gilbert
My books are very few, but then the world is before me ‒ a library open to all ‒ from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me ‒ in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.
~Joseph Howe
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I remember being taken to visit houses by my father, who then tested my powers of observation by expecting me to describe the things I had seen… Unusual furniture always seemed easier to remember than other things.
~David Linley
It’s really weird because my house is very ornate, but my writing lair is very, very blank. It’s white, the furniture is white. It gives me nothing to look at, so I just have to concentrate!
~Jane Goldman
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I want to do stories that are about the bits of cultural furniture that are sitting there that we’re like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s been there for years! What could possibly be weird about it?’ And then we’re going to lift that piece of furniture and look at all the bugs scurry away.
~Adam Conover
I am a writer, and the duty of a writer is not only to furnish pleasant pursuits for the mind and taste: he will be held accountable if things useful to the soul are not disseminated by his works and if nothing remains after him as a precept for mankind.
~Nikolai Gogol
My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything.
~Thomas Love Peacock
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I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born; I knew I should not find a single original thought in any philosophy, and I knew I could not furnish one to the world myself, if I had five centuries to invent it in.
~Mark Twain
I am playing in a playground that’s already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in science fiction is second hand.
~Alastair Reynolds
Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what’s been done, what’s been superseded, what’s so much part of the furniture it’s practically part of the fabric now, what’s become no more than a joke…
~Iain Banks
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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.
~Jonathan Carroll
If I’m writing about a modern-day suburb, there’s going to be details of the home and furniture, and if I’m writing about a historical period, those details, those pieces of the world are going to be there as well, but they’ll be simplified, because I’m cartooning it.
~Gene Luen Yang
Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even ‘furniture’ characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere.
~Nancy Kress
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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.
~F Sionil Jose
These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic; that he is a discoverer and collector of writers’ faults.
~Jonathan Swift
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The publishers wish me to stand in the vestibule of this book and open the door for the people. Those who enter these portals will find three rooms grandly furnished, a picture-gallery, a music-hall, and a library.
~T De Witt Talmage
So if you’re a robot and you’re living on this planet, you can do things that you can’t do in real life – things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive.
~William Joyce
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People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don’t think I could ever write a book thinking of it as a movie the whole time. This would be like building a house and filling it with furniture just so you could have blueprints.
~Jess Walter
I’m really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can’t see what I’m doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space.
~Joanna Scott
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When I was writing ‘Kitchen Confidential,’ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.
~Anthony Bourdain
I spent 18 months with the furniture parked in front of the radiators, cooking as quickly as I possibly could to use the least amount of gas and electricity. I unscrewed the lightbulbs in the hallway, unplugged everything at the wall so not even the LCD display was blinking away on the oven.
~Jack Monroe
I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.
~DJ Khaled
When I was writing ‘Withnail,’ I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.
~Bruce Robinson
I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with my time, it made me take my writing seriously.
~Simon Van Booy
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Prewritten Prompt: furnish :: furniture
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth ‒ in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world ‒ have not any subsistence without a mind.
~George Berkeley
Nature, or that sacred and supreme Cause of all Things, which we term God, has furnished his Creatures with such Guides as may best conduct them to the several Ends of their Beings.
~Thomas Burnet
We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he’s given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God.
~Duane Chapman
I look at my faith like a room, and there was all of this furniture in there, but I had inherited most of the furniture. Then, when I got divorced, I took everything out just to see how I was going to refurnish the room, and that was a very essential step in my life. It was great.
~Pete Holmes
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Ministers should be Bible students. They should thoroughly furnish themselves with the evidences of our faith and hope, and then, with full control of the voice and their feelings, present these evidences in such a manner that the people can calmly weigh them, and decide upon the evidences presented.
~Ellen G White
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
~Tryon Edwards
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It’s very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
~Irvine Welsh
Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
~Aldous Huxley
I would have tested the furniture if they’d asked me.
~Karen Morley
Man resides awhile in the house of unbelief, in order that the mansions of faith may be furnished anew.
~Henry James Slack
I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.
~Elie Saab
I like Church furniture.
~Andres Serrano
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
~E Franklin Frazier
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I find the history of toys very interesting on an academic level ‒ they’re very much products of their time, just like paintings and furniture tell us about their time.
~James May
To me, all these things tell a story, and I find clothespin parts as interesting as ‘collectors’ furniture.’ Good pieces of Shaker furniture are interesting, but only so much. It is the other things and the personal effects that let me feel the Shakers.
~Ken Hakuta
It is well known that many of our novelties were in use by our ancestors! In the history of the human mind there is, indeed, a sort of antique furniture which I collect, not merely from their antiquity, but for the sound condition in which I still find them, and the compactness which they still show. Centuries have not worm-eaten their solidity, and the utility and delightfulness which they still afford make them look as fresh and as ingenious as any of our patent inventions…
~Isaac D’Israeli
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‘Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection…
~William James
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To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.
~Vannevar Bush
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn’t got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, ‘Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.’
~Neil deGrasse Tyson
With recording, everything changed. 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. It’s an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.
~Brian Eno
Technology is a huge part of our lives and it’s only a matter of time that it becomes a part of every corner of your home, even part of something like furniture.
~Sussanne Khan
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How wonderful if we human beings could have such power of emitting light as do the fireflies, — a sort of personal flash to be turned on at will! How it would aid one on dark streets at night, how advantageous for finding lost articles in the hall closet, how tremendously helpful for locating the elusive keyhole at midnight! Yet maybe the cost of upkeep for that light would be too great. Before I had it installed in me, I should wish to have an estimate as to how much of my vitality would be expended to keep it burning. We have no power of knowing what that firefly sacrifices to furnish illumination.
~Dorothy Scarborough, 1919
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
~Isaac Newton
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose…
~Nicolaus Copernicus
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Scorpio is a very beautiful group of stars, and easily traced out in the heavens. It furnishes striking evidence of the facility with which most of the constellations may be so accurately delineated…
~Elijah H. Burritt, 1833
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Many gardens are hijacked by their plants and end up looking like a room overstuffed with furniture.
~Monty Don
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I’m the disciplinarian. Nick doesn’t discipline. The cat can do whatever it wants. It can scratch on the furniture. It can do whatever it wants and Nick doesn’t do anything about it. So I have to yell. I’m the bad cop. He’s the good cop.
~Bridget Marquardt
No dog means no disgusting surprises on carpets… no hefty vet bills, no destruction of everything from eyeglasses to baseboards to legs of furniture, and no responsibility.
~Neil Macdonald
When cats scratch the furniture, it’s only because they’re trying to sharpen their claws, which means they get so long that they want to grind them down. So if you trim their claws routinely, it helps tremendously.
~Beth Ostrosky Stern
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The capsules of the geranium furnish admirable barometers. Fasten the beard, when fully ripe, upon a stand, and it will twist itself or untwist, according as the air is moist or dry.
~Dorothea Dix
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§ The Exercise:
coming soon
Blue Room of nature
the sky
birds for furniture
decorate trees
sprinkle the air
there’s talk of horizon
but only vastness so far
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ufo or uap
if of one race
of human trace
in alien space
then grant with grace
this request
and furnish it
with friendship
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handicapped
living arrangements
furnished apart
meant
lovers’ caution
paid two rents
bet on their success
less’n two cents
two with burdens
both parents
~
plaza moment #15
eyes closed
sharp sudden yapping
impertinent barking
distant dog in reply
low drone of background musics
nearby conversations
someone giggles
eyes closed
pleasures unqualified
aural furniture
laughter alive
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lesser definitions
eternity: useless cousin of infinity
fecundity: the hope of sterility
insanity: dream’s escape from brand Sanity
karma: wisdom earned womb to tomb
furniture: the hope of an empty room
future: when what looms is doom
answer: hope some are coming soon
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etc
young one
memory’s empty rooms
lifestyle to outfit
decades to furnish
story unfinished
bio’s unwritten chapters
museum’s hollow echo
rode his bike into a car
~
prognosis
they say rash
my way to blush
red hot
furnace fever
they say virus
furnished it,
but more deadly
yet
I know it’s love
~
confession #15
poetic license
level of anarchy
outright lie
sheerest hypocrisy
blatant fraud
to write of love
pure fantasy
pretend furniture
don’t even wannabe
having watched
other lives clash
lash and disagree
~
Rhinotillexomania BFRB
Daring to outstare
judgement’s glare
crowd’s baleful stare
mount the bucking mare
climb the ever-stairs
don’t care where
away from the censors
Nose mining causes covid
related dementia
but finding those nuggets
turns viral cold into virtual gold
~
5s ‘n 7s
furnished heart at large, rent free
vacancy where you could be
proudly sane need not apply
experience, my reply
’tis kindness drops this cruel tip
true spoke from dread druid’s lip
love’s blue moon soon ruins it
~
old memories place
view, background furnished
used biographies
different others
apartment dwellers
lived and shared love here
same as the others
~
fidelity’s sanctity
furnishing family needs
true love now a bedding sport
ravished furniture, stained sheets
exhibit A divorce court
~
roll dice in love’s game again
start at go and try again
furnish with old furniture
remembrances of the past
homestead, livable or not
~
romantic feuds, jealousies
treacheries of family
ancient sibling rivalries
older now still immature
quibbling over furniture
~
furnished with a phone
SSN, email
mapped face on record
registered human
trackable being
~
plethora of ideas
served up tight in thought capsules
solid with substance and heft
nourishments furnished in words
ripe harvest yield, seed for worlds
trite weeds or great words
dead wood or fine furniture
mind that time measures
~
furnaces furnished
room 773Ч
compliments of hell
or come spend a little spell
splendid HOT L Baltimore
~
canine souvenir
coiled brown sidewalk furniture
or so it is hoped
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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes
I don’t particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
~Zaha Hadid
You just touch on things. You don’t go round the room describing the furniture.
~Evan Hunter
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Well, 9/11 made me think about the towers, and the fact that I lived in New York for a long time, while they were being built. In fact, I had a studio that was ripped out, along with the whole neighborhood, to put the towers in. I saw them go up. I lived with them, running past them in the morning. And they were like part of my furniture.
~Mordicai Gerstein
My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it’s like therapy.
~Pamela Anderson
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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
~Arthur Conan Doyle
I always bring divining rods when I’m on tour because you can change energy streams by moving furniture around your hotel room.
~Chris de Burgh
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Television is hypnotic, and it hides among the furniture of your living room. It doesn’t reveal itself, but it distorts everything.
~Richard Dreyfuss
I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.
Kenny Leon
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I’m a very soft-spoken person. I don’t throw furniture. I don’t throw tantrums.
~Jennifer Yuh Nelson
I’m good with furniture, very bad with plants.
~Dan Levy
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The citric acid in lemon juice makes it perfect for bleaching, disinfecting and cutting through grease. And olive oil is a great alternative to furniture polish.
~Sheherazade Goldsmith
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.
~Alfred Newman
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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.
~Elsa Peretti
The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.
~Donald Judd
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I’m not a furniture person. You sit on the stuff, sleep on it, make love on it.
~Jack Hemingway
I don’t have any furniture.
~Bridget Marquardt
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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.
~Douglas Coupland
The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.
~Gianfranco Ferre
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I recognized that the passion I have and feel for interior and design and furniture was not organically there for styling. The fuel that drives you when doing something you truly love… wasn’t there.
~Jeremiah Brent
When you’re paying everybody nothing, I mean, they have homes to pay for. And my movies are like putting on theater. Nicole Kidman is at craft services, and John Cusack is moving furniture; there are no egos. The only ego is the story.
~Lee Daniels
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The Olio
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The Salmagundi
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