#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. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#clothes #eye #fine #furniture #houses

When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#bank #dying #every #feel #florida

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#chamber #common #common sense #first-rate #floor

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#been #black #blue #contacts #furniture

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#clothing #design #furniture #milanese #say

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#back #came #come #difficult #early

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. ↗

— Margaret O'Brien

#always #ancient #ancient times #antiques #authentic

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture. ↗

— Dee Hock

#every #furniture #mind #packed #room

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. ↗

— Donna Karan

#about #building #development #fashion #form

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal. ↗

— Tatyana Tolstaya

#develop #disappears #furnished #furniture #goal