Quotes of Furniture - somelinesforyou

“ Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being — much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund. ”

- Garrison Keillor

“ I think theater ought to be theatrical... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's — there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is. ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. ”

- Robert Fulghum

“ All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind. ”

- George Berkeley

“ The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse… I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine. ”

- Cindy Crawford

“ I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own. ”

- Les Dawson

“ Science is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“ What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room. ”

- Lisa Alther

“ Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart. ”

- William Makepeace Thackeray

“ All those Nupboards in the Cupboards theey're good fun to have about. But that Nooth gush on my tooth brush.....Him I could do without. ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ Just let the wardrobe do the acting. ”

- Jack Nicholson

“ I guess it wouldn't discourage a real mob for very long, but it packs all the authority you can put in a desk drawer. ”

- Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

“ I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it. ”

- Dawn French

“ We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage. ”

- Mordecai Richler

“ The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard. ”

- Penelope Lively

“ I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser. ”

- Shirley MacLaine

“ Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture. ”

- St. John Baptist de La Salle

“ We live in a world where lemonade is made from aritificial flavoring and furniture polish is made from real lemons. ”

- Alfred E. Neuman

“ Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture. ”

- Jacquelyn Mitchard

“ No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. ”

- Fran Lebowitz

“ The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes. ”

- Dave Barry

“ Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet. ”

- Jeff Melvoin

“ My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy. ”

- Pamela Anderson

“ A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one. ”

- Quentin Crisp

“ A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody. ”

- Edgar Watson Howe

“ 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. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle

“ An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture. ”

- Mario Burata
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