Quotes About Decoration

My biggest word of advice that I could give to people that are dealing with a home renovation or decoration is to not think about design as it's been presented to you before. I think everybody needs to start designing based on the moments they imagine having in their home and that is what has guided me as a decorator.

A thought provoking number of the world's most intelligent people have disdained any interest in decoration and design, equating contentment with discarnate and invisible matters instead.

Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.

A boutonniere rested beside each plate. Everyone wore tuxedos. There was not a woman in sight.

gold n. [mass noun] 1 a yellow precious metal, the chemical element of atomic number 79, used in jewellery and decoration and to guarantee the value of currencies. (Symbol: Au) [with modifier] an alloy of gold: 9-carat gold.

Under the direction of the patriarch Niketas (741–775), iconoclasts removed figurative portraits (probably saints' busts) from the council hall of the church of Hagia Sophia and replaced them with plain crosses.31 Already, by 743, Constantine V had rebuilt the earthquake-damaged church of Hagia Eirene and ordered its apse decorated with a simple, unadorned cross. Somewhat surprisingly, this cross has remained its sole decoration to this day.

He was dressed in green, and blades must not have bothered him the way they do me, for a good-sized one hung at his right side. He seemed to be using a rolled cloak for a backpack, and he wore its clasp like a decoration upon his left breast-an elaborate thing, a golden bird of some sort.

the ancient Greek word for adornment, kosmos, means both "decoration" and "world order." (This is, of course, why the words cosmetics and cosmology share an etymological root.)

Hier, on se disputait à reconstituer le séjour de Leningrad, l'emploi du temps des deux jours. Il voulait lire mon journal. On a encore parlé de Staline, de la guerre. Son père a été « décoré » par Staline...

I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit.

I was promoted to be a major, and every Allied government gave me a decoration—even Montenegro, little Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea!

Furthermore, we are so accustomed to seeing the cross functioning as a decoration that we can scarcely imagine it as an object of shame and scandal unless it is burned on someone's lawn.

The reason why I wanted to direct is because there are personal stories that I want to tell, but also because I love every part of movie making - from the wardrobe to the set decoration to cinematography.

the big vases, that could not hide the vacancies her pretty

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

He was just under three inches tall. His blue-black hair, done in a plait and pressed to his head by a colored headband, gleamed in the sun. So did the minuscule muscles of his tiny naked torso, and the skin of his arms. His legs were covered with buckskin leggings, which had some decoration on them too small to see properly. He wore a kind of bandolier across his chest and his belt seemed to be made of several strands of some shiny white beads. Best of all, somehow, were his moccasins.

Gaam's room was decorated in accordance with the Shanti-Joddhist Principles of Harmony. On entry, he was welcomed with great affection by his dog, Queeen, who had been called Queen before Gaam discovered numerology.

Cosmetic decoration, which frequently distorts the data, will never salvage an underlying lack of content.

For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.

Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the dead care?

Charm is like tinsel without the tree. What's tinsel without the tree? Shredded tinfoil.

Charm is like tinsel without the tree. What's tinsel without the tree? Shredded tinfoil. I

Charm is like tinsel without the tree. What's tinsel without the tree? Shredded tinfoil.

The hall they entered had arched ceilings over twenty feet high that were painted in tromp l'oeil, basically a bunch of butt-naked baby angels pointing at each other.' (Carlos)