John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame."
Furniture quotes
Furniture
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Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!"
Erma Bombeck
Humorist, Writer
"It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture."
Joseph Roth
Novelist
"That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories."
Edith Wharton
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers."
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"The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable."
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"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."
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"I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels."
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"Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic."
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"No furniture is so charming as books."
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"How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture."
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"I've read about all the sales today. If you're an auto dealer, you're feeling it. If you're a furniture retailer like we are, you're feeling it. If you're a jewelry retailer, you're feeling it. I know some of these businesses because we're in them. Yeah, it's being felt, but it will be felt big time more if we don't do something about it, what's going on."
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"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."
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"No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!"
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"Most furniture is not made for people - they are made for the people who sell them."
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"Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse."
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"Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him."
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"It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture."
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"A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world."
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"I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up."
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"No one chair should be isolated."
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"If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture."
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"I have over 5000 costumes, and the furniture and memorabilia that goes with them."
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"A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion."
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"No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this [digital] stuff."
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