Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by David Linley
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British celebrity David Linley.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Life, work, money - everything is such a battle. It's just nice to sit down at home, look at one thing, and think, 'Hmmm. A man made that.'
America is wonderful.
In an ideal world, you would have his-and-hers bathrooms and his-and-hers dressing rooms, complete with a single bed where the Mrs. need not be woken up when there's a 7 o'clock flight to catch.
I remember my father making many things. Once we made a shed, and a man in the village came along to help. After a couple of glasses of beer, he said, 'Give me a tape measure and I'll make it by eye,' and the result was so beautiful.
I went to church with my grandmother every Sunday.
Nothing tests a marriage more than insomnia or snoring.
Food and wine are my extravagances.
My dining room table is just a huge, great thick slab of oak on a beautiful frame. Whenever people come to supper I invite them to carve their name in it.
Our chief aim is to make beautiful things that will last forever.
I don't use my title.
For the novice furniture collector, buying antiques can seem a rather daunting prospect. Nobody wants to feel that they may not make a wise choice and that ultimately they could be throwing their money away. The main thing is that you should always buy something first and foremost because you like it.
The best ideas come from sitting down with a piece of paper and a pencil.
I used to sit and draw in the evening with a couple of crates of beer. That makes the ideas flow.
I started off by doing everything myself, driving the truck, going to the woodshop, buying the wood, designing the furniture, cutting it out, making it myself, finishing it, polishing it, and delivering it, and writing the invoice and writing the letters, doing the books, doing the telephone bill and everything else like that.
We are a modern family who need to live in a certain way.
Bedales was perfect for my sister and me. Very open. Very few rules. No uniforms. Co-educational. And very little of 'You have to do this like this.' You very much controlled your education.
Beautiful engineering always held a fascination for me.
There was a time when craft used to mean anything but the considered, stylish or academic. It was a term of derision. The 'craft fair' on the village green was to be avoided.
Usually, when people think of marquetry, they think of Dutch 17th-century furniture with inlaid flowers and jugs. Our goal is to break down the barriers between old and new, to combine traditional marquetry techniques with a modern idiom.
I made an urban-looking bicycle that could stand up to potholes. Of course, it was stolen instantly - proof of the genius of its design.
I love partridge and duck casseroles, and have been known to hunt my own game. It's important to eat off the land where possible.
We should promote and celebrate and enthuse the artisans and craftsmen of Great Britain.
Someone did once bow to me, and my mother immediately told them off. Although whether she was prompted by the breach of protocol or the fact I enjoyed it a little too much, I really couldn't say.
Controlling the design of an everyday object is very satisfying.
I'm a very methodical cook - it appeals to the logical side of my brain.
On a fine day, I'm a keen cyclist.
I love Burgundy but my favourite is a Bordeaux - Chateau Leoville-Barton.
My father's rooms, as a child, were a very exciting place to be. Not only because of the beautiful models who were coming to be photographed for Vogue or The Sunday Times but also because of the very avant-garde furniture that he had made. He made designs for the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969 at Caernarfon Castle.
It's extraordinary how a physical disability makes people think that somebody is frail.
My teaching was primarily focused on making, it wasn't about the pounds, shillings and pence. I remember being in college and being in business and there was just a weekend in between.
I'm a maker, not a designer.
I like to say we can make anything in wood.
My daughter makes great jewellery and my son wants to pursue engineering. They've both been indoctrinated by the school of Linley. People want to get back to painting, building, exploring what their creative sides can do - it's something all human beings crave.
Personally, I find the world of memorabilia fascinating: how people get so focused on one genre, music, or person.
There are so many super yachts being built nowadays. I don't know where the people go with them. Because the people who can afford them haven't got the time to use them.
We had an immensely happy childhood.
My design teachers were teaching us how to mass-manufacture; how to create something, but it's not lasting - it's always about the next trend, it's the next thing.
Ideally you should try to buy upholstered items that have retained their original fillings of horsehair, wool or down, because they provide a much more satisfying shape than when they have been replaced with foam rubber or other modern materials.
If you cut me open, you would find bits of me looking at things with an aesthetic eye, also with a historical eye. But mostly at the way things have transported themselves through time.
In close-nailed furniture, if the nails used are identical they have been manufactured industrially, which implies a date after 1850.
I'm extremely proud of my relations and my heritage and my family. That's one side of my life, and my work is the other side of my life, and... I've always tried to keep them, you know apart.
There is something reassuring about British-made products and their inventiveness and ingenuity, their creative spirit and eccentricity and their British wit and charm.
Since childhood, Claridge's has always been a very special place for me. I associate it with celebrations, happy times.
Wood is very warm and sensual and meant to be touched.
We are no longer teaching young people to make things that are beautiful and of very high quality. We are not giving them the chance to learn how to create artefacts to a high standard of design and workmanship.
My parents are very supportive of my work. It's my father who encourages me to keep going and my mother she's very proud. She's keen that I do something creative rather than just printing money in some city bank, you know which I couldn't have done, anyway.
There's a real hunger to understand where objects come from, how artists show their understanding of materials. And there's something fascinating about watching people work, whether it's someone engraving a gun or sewing beautiful clothes together. I know that myself; I'll make a piece of furniture and feel the wood's grain talking to me.
I loved the idea of evolving traditional methods and design to make products that last but are also relevant for the modern age.
There was a submarine that I desperately wanted to buy in the toy shop. My father said, 'No, you go and build it yourself.'
I would love to get into the dictionary as synonymous with great quality and service.
You can never split yourself from the family you were born into.
Beeswax is always preferable to chemical polishes because it does not destroy the natural surface of wood.
A lot of my pieces have involved teamwork, but hopefully they've inspired people to make things - that inspiration would be a great legacy.
I have bought and sold and bought and sold things that have given me great pleasure over the years, and I find I go through phases of what I'm passionate about. And then the next thing comes along, and so the only way of being able to collect the next one is to sell a few of the other ones.
I remember being taken to visit houses by my father, who then tested my powers of observation by expecting me to describe the things I had seen... Unusual furniture always seemed easier to remember than other things.
The workshop to me always means great atmosphere, working, smell of wood, dust and, at the end of the day, you've created something.
I must have made 20 different bicycles in my life; bicycle parts are like works of art in miniature.
Most craft is, you know, terrible, absolutely terrible, so I don't like the word, or the word 'artisan' either.
I reckon if you stick to the same thing every day for lunch when you are traveling, you know where you are. And it is one less decision to make.
I've seen that, over the centuries, India has still got its passion and its soul. Wherever you go, people have such inner strength and beauty.
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