Quotes About Interior

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

What a house. Turns out they're doing OK, the Malfoy's. However, the interior decorating leaves a lot to be desired. And needless to say, Voldemort isn't the greatest houseguest.

Your home should be a reflection of how you want to live right now, and for the next phase of your life.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

All that interior violence and complication to defend themselves from the very tenderness.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service.

A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.

I always try to craft spaces around the moments that I imagine people or families having in them.

The intelligent practice of self-control, quickly leads to a knowledge of one's interior thought-forces, and, later on, to the acquisition of that power by which they are rightly employed and directed.

He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden.

There is an unalterable and widening gap between exterior and interior, symbol and content, form and function -a gap which is making the environment more and more inarticulate, impossible to understand and difficult to manipulate.

Daily, quiet reflection on the word of God as it applies to me ... becomes for one a point of crystallisation for everything which gives interior and exterior order to my life." —MEDITATING ON THE WORD

Even the furniture in the glass room was transparent—off-the-shelf Louis Ghost chairs and a matching transparent table.

We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride. Sometimes I can't sit still for all the asininities I read. Give me the hummingbird, who has to eat sixty times His own weight a day just to stay alive. Now that's a life on the edge.

I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition.

Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

I feel my writing comes from a desire to... well, it's motivated by many things, but it's inherently a contradiction in that I'm writing for myself, and it's a very interior journey. On the other hand, I feel that writers do make that interior journey out of a desire to connect.

Lifted, by his fantasy, into a high interior world, he scored off briefly and entirely all the grimy smudges of life: he existed nobly in a heroic world with lovely and virtuous creatures.

Despite his title, the Secretary of the Interior was a shallow man. He was given to surfaces, not depths; to cortex, not medulla; to the puff, not the cream. He didn't understand the interior of anything: not the interior of a tenor sax solo, a painting or a poem; not the interior of an atom, a planet, a spider or his wife's body; not the interior, least of all, of his own heart and head.

A horsehair sofa of uncompromising firmness sat next to two straight-backed, hard-seated chairs.