Furniture Quotes

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

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of 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.

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

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.

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.

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

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in 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.

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

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

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.

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

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.

Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

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

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

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.

Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

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.

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.

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.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

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'.

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

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. 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.