#wallpaper

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper. ↗

— David Quammen

#david-quammen #wallpaper #love

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology. ↗

— David Bromstad

#color #could #created #design #exciting

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else. ↗

— Albert Camus

#art #creating #flowers #marcel-proust #wallpaper

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#oscar-wilde #wallpaper #death

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#taste #wallpaper #wild

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#canned #like #music #wallpaper

When I was a little girl,' I said, sitting down, 'the wallpaper in my room had pictures of Noah's story.' [...] You know what's weird though? It's weird that the ark would be such a kids' story, you know? I mean, it's...really a story about death. Every person who isn't in Noah's family? They die. Every animal, apart from two of each on the boat? They die. They all die in the flood. Billions of creatures. It's the worst tragedy ever,' I finished, my voice tied off by a knot in my chest.[...] 'What the hell,'I said, 'pardon my language, was that doing on my wallpaper? ↗

— Adam Rex

#noah-s-ark #wallpaper #death

The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet. ↗

— Macy Gray

#carpet #deep #floor #house #i

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#audible #cocktail #music #wallpaper

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time. ↗

— Martin Mull

#challenge #down #each #get #i