Italian Furniture Quotes & Sayings

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers. — Leonard Bernstein

I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself. — Allan Carr

Choose your thoughts and beliefs wisely.
Be your own best friend, and not your enemy. — Maddy Malhotra

The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor. — Elaine Sciolino

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome. — Wilbur Smith

We all enjoy the band and what we're doing, but we know this isn't gonna last forever. — Shannon Hoon

We as women look around for things that we need to pay attention too just in case. — Gabrielle Dennis

I had a very Italian house - the "plastic furniture you couldn't sit on" house. Did anybody have the museum house? For a kid it's traumatic. Towels you can never touch. China no one's ever gonna use. Everything is for a special occasion that never happens. My mother was waiting for the Pope to show up for dinner. Or Sinatra. Or Chachi. — Ray Romano

I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical. — Ferran Adria

I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair. — Thom Filicia

The United States is a conceited nation with shallow roots, and what happened before living memory doesn't seem to interest most people I know at home. We like living in our houses with our new furniture, on our new streets in new neighborhoods. Everything is disposable and everything is replaceable. Personal family history can feel simply irrelevant in our new world, beyond the simplest national identifications, and even those who can get sort of vague for people. I remember a boy in high school who told the history teacher he was 'half Italian, half Polish, half English, half German, and one-quarter Swedish.' I think one of the reasons so many of us are disconnected from our histories is because none of it happened where we live in the present; the past, for so many, is a faraway place across an ocean. — Katharine Weber

He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be. — Douglas Adams

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. — D.H. Lawrence

It pleased me to think of his being happy.
It really pleased me to think that I might have influenced another being's emotions. — A.M. Jenkins

The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author. — Roberto Calasso