#furniture

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

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

#animal #certain #conversation #ever #furniture

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

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#complete #design #drawn #furniture #i

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. ↗

— Alfred Newman

#flavors #furniture #lemonade #lemons #living

I like Church furniture. ↗

— Andres Serrano

#furniture #i #like

A Marquetry Odyssey: Historical Objects and Personal Work ↗