Top Furniture Quotes

If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.

Most journeys are armchair calculations strategically charted in some reclined state that are designed to allow us to embark upon a grand journey without ever leaving the armchair. However, real journ...

Furniture Definition

(v. t.) That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.

(v. t.) Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.

(v. t.) The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc.

(v. t.) The masts and rigging of a ship.

(v. t.) The mountings of a gun.

(v. t.) Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings.

(v. t.) Pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height than the type, placed around the pages or other matter in a form, and, with the quoins, serving to secure the form in its place in the chase.

(v. t.) A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture.

Various pieces of huge dark furniture constricted the passage, and the place smelled of boiled fish. I was shown into the parlor, where the gloom of that overcast day was filtered through windows curt...

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

People get rid of plenty when they move--sometimes they're changing not just places but personalities.

In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich, and therefore end up looking like one another: it had damasks, ebony, plants, carpets, and bronzes,...

It made me think of the nice old Marimekko-clad ladies I sometimes went to see in the Ritz Tower: gravel-voiced, turban-wearing, panther-braceleted widows looking to move to Miami, their apartments fi...

Furnishing was not a priority in the Citadel. Shelves, stools, tables... There was a rumor among the novices that priests towards the top of the hierarchy had golden furniture, but there was no sign o...

In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.

The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'

I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

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

I had a 'Cats' phase, where I did lots of overturned furniture and trash cans. I asked for a fog machine for my birthday.

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

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, el...

Books do furnish a room.

Unlike fine furniture, a man is better unfinished.