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.
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.
Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.
She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.
To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best
I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.
I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.
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.
That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories.
They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.
Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.
Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.
The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy. - Wally's Keynote Speech
Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving 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.
I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.
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.
