Best Furniture Quotes

Renewing the mind is a little like refinishing furniture. It is a two-stage process. It involves taking off the old and replacing it with the new. The old is the lies you have learned to tell or were taught by those around you; it is the attitudes and ideas that have become a part of your thinking but do not reflect reality. The new is the truth. To renew your mind is to involve yourself in the process of allowing God to bring to the surface the lies you have mistakenly accepted and replace them with truth. To the degree that you do this, your behavior will be transformed.

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.

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.

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

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

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I’m not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.

I started out making furniture because I couldn’t find certain things, and then I really got into it.

Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture – furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small.

A gentleman doesn’t pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.

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

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

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.

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

Better rooms better furniture, better objects d’art can only be created for a society interested in living – not existing.

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.

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

There’s a lot of work being done today that doesn’t have any soul in it. The technique may be the utmost perfection, yet it is lifeless. It doesn’t have a soul. I hope my furniture has a soul to it.

My goal is to make furniture that people can be comfortable living with. If you’re not preoccupied with making an impact with your designs, chances are something that looks good today will look good tomorrow.

I came up to New York at 20 with a suitcase and a ceramic tiger. That was my one piece of furniture and I wanted to save it.

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window–maybe rearrange all the furniture.

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

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

Confidence in one’s self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.

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!

Television as we have it isn’t an art form – it’s a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

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

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.

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. No furniture, no light fittings, no carpet, no bodies. Not a single body. Nothing but the million ducks, the three million ducklings and a window.

I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I’m like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn’t matter which wine.

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

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.

Some women want the strong silent type, so they can tell him to shut up and rearrange the furniture.

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

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

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