Quotes About Interior

All the windows were fogged over now. Neither Walt nor Lem tried to clear the misted glass. Unable to see out of the car, confined to its humid and claustrophobic interior, they seemed to be cut off from the real world, adrift in time and space, a condition that was oddly conducive to the consid eration of the wondrous and outrageous acts of creation that genetic engineering made possible.

wallpaper, gleaming floors, and a coin

So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body.

He said he felt like the gut heart and lungs of Africa's interior. He said he felt like the Kongo: "Land of the Panther." He said he felt like "deserting his master," as the Kongo is "prone to do." He said he felt he could dance on a dime.

I say to myself that the result of the unnatural effort to which I subject myself, writing, must be the respiration of this reader, the operation of reading turned into a natural process, the current that brings the sentences to graze the filter of her attention, to stop for a moment before being absorbed by the circuits of her mind and disappearing, transformed into her interior ghosts, into what in her is most personal and incommunicable.

It could be an important feature to be added to your portrait: your mind has interior walls that allow you to partition different times in which to stop or flow, to concentrate alternately on parallel channels.

I say to myself that the result of the unnatural effort to which I subject myself, writing, must be the respiration of this reader, the operation of reading turned into a natural process, the current that brings the sentences to graze the filter of her attention, to stop for a moment before being absorbed by the circuits of her mind and disappearing, transformed into her interior ghosts, into what in her is most personal and incommunicable. At

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

I like transparency. I love to have views throughout the house.

The living cell almost always contains, locked in its interior, the visible or invisible products of its physiological activity or its nourishment.

What's interesting about the studies is that prelingually deaf people (people such as my parents, who were born deaf or who lost their hearing early on) have no interior monologue.

Everyone, he knew, had one. A locked room. Either in their home, or their head, or their heart. Where things that should never see the light of day lived, and waited. For their chance to escape.

Armand Gamache had expected to need a few moments to adjust to the dark interior. He hadn't expected that he'd need to adjust to the light.

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.

Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden

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

The easiest approach to any strong color is to use a lot of it, thus unifying a room. However, beware of too many strong colors unless you happen to like living on a battlefield.

I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.

Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.