161 Furniture Quotes for You to Enjoy

I love white linens and walls mixed with antique Victorian furniture. Mary Helen Bowers

Love Walls White Furniture Mixed Antique Victorian

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

Work Home Family Car Daughter Big Gone Sold Furniture Visit Johannesburg Had Over Because Said Sale Lots Canada Modeling Getting Move Where Wanted While Really Garage

For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself. Michael Graves

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

Work Time Me Director Better Unless Spend Furniture Out About Something More Most Concept Client Making Than Just Wants Script Much Acting Actor Actually Thing

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

Everything Furniture Like Dependable Heavy English

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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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

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It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture. Nadia Comaneci

Me Mother Back Furniture Destroying Classes Gymnastics Couch Involved Got Doing Sending Six Just Stop Who Flips

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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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

Love Saying Fashion People Sense Furniture Purest Never Term Piece How Understood Worked Products Who Grasped Works Keep Actually

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

Art Too Way Furniture Bought Piece Lord Exhibition Very Antique Quite Expensive Lady Sculptures Actually Two

I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where. Olivia Newton-John

Love Design Bathroom Finally Furniture Kitchen Colours Picking Houses Accessories Materials Contractors Goes Where Working

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

Best You Shopping Internet First Furniture See Some Computer Price Driving Look Another Motivation Bunch Get Quite Where Different Store Stores Automatically Realized Company Comparison Thing Tedious

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

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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

Life Faith Great My Life Took Everything Furniture Out See Had Step Divorced Like Look Most Got How Very Going Essential Just Room Then Inherited

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

Try Design Furniture Stuff Want Interiors Fascinated Designing

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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My family were wheeler-dealer class. They were their own bosses and very glamorous. We lived in a beautiful, big townhouse in Arklow, in Ireland, that we couldn't afford to heat. My father had a business fitting bar furniture, and my mother is an antiques dealer. Roisin Murphy

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