Quotes About Furniture

The citric acid in lemon juice makes it perfect for bleaching, disinfecting and cutting through grease. And olive oil is a great alternative to furniture polish.

The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.

Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item.

I'm obsessed with my couch. I have the greenest couch on the planet.

It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table.

Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.

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.

I sit on a leather easy chair. It's the most comfortable piece of furniture in the universe. My ass wants to divorce me and marry it.

The furniture looks like it was stolen from the lobby of a fancy hotel trying to pass itself off as folksy.

The little weasel ripped all the buttons off my couch. Ivan Petrovsky, pg 350

Odd how a few sticks of furniture hung around like that. It made her feel better to see them. They would unpack, deploy the furniture, use it until it became invisible. Habit would once again cloak the naked reality of the world. And thank God for that.

The sad rocking chair in the corner was actually a joke of a chair: if one started laughing at it, one could die laughing. It was too low for a grown man, and besides, it was so tight, one needed a shoehorn to get back out of it. In short, this room was simply not furnished in a way appropriate to intellectual effort, and I did not intend to keep it any longer.

Satin occupied a couple of rooms which a chemist had furnished for her in order to rescue her from the clutches of the police; but in little over a year she had broken the furniture, knocked in the chairs and dirtied the curtains in such a frenzy of filth and disorder that the two rooms looked as if they were inhabited by a pack of mad cats.

Certainly, Doctor. Let's talk about your chair. Victorian?

Excellent. We keep your furniture. Whose bed?" "Yours." "Why mine?" "It's bigger, for one." "And for another?" "Mine doesn't have the sort of headboard you can tie someone to. I've always sort of wanted to do that." "Bend over. Now. Take off your pants and bend over. I'll be done in five minutes. No one will ever know.

By the time the guys left that night, I had a dresser, a coffee table, and a mattress that had been inflated by all of us because the little electric motor kept spazzing out. (One of us would get light-headed midblow and tap out.)

Provide multi-level cat furniture like trees and perches or hiding places.

When I decided to go to L.A. I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York.

I jog at the Rose Bowl, and I collect antique and vintage furniture, so I'm there every few weeks for the flea market.

I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.

My mom took up belly dancing. In order to make it appear like she was moving, my father and I had to jiggle the furniture in back of her.

Consider the results of a study conducted at Northwestern University. Researchers gave online participants information about a pair of sofas we'll call the Dream and the Titan. The two, manufactured by different furniture companies, were comparable in all respects except for their cushions. The Dream's cushions were softer and more comfortable than the Titan's but less durable. In

It was a plain table, and unadorned like all of her furnishings, some of which she suspected might be of indifferent workmanship. A trivial matter; so long as furniture did what it was supposed to do, nothing more mattered

overstuffed, out-of-period wingbacks and a matching couch sat before a walk-in fireplace;