A Quote by Anna Quindlen

Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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Bookshelves Building Consists Decorating Enough Mostly

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Anna Quindlen
American - Journalist
Born: July 8, 1953

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.

Anna Quindlen

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

Anna Quindlen

I had a wife and children. I was mostly working in painting and decorating and then taking the occasional acting job as they came along. At that stage in your life you have to think about your priorities. It looked like I was going to have to take the building more seriously and give up acting.

Charley Boorman

Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about building what is appropriate and about attaining beauty through such an approach. I describe this premise as 'inherent buildability', and I believe it is central to what I do.

Moshe Safdie

Shah Rukh himself, if he wasn't an actor, would probably have liked to become an architect or interior designer. He's totally into buying property, building, and decorating.

Gauri Khan

When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the preparation and cooking; decorating is the final seasoning, the savoring.

Albert Hadley

The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.

Rebecca Solnit

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between?

Buwei Yang Chao

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

Friedrich Engels

London scene consists of mostly foreigners. We see ourselves as British in many ways, but not English.

Hussein Chalayan

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

Gottfried Leibniz

Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

Norman Mailer

The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts are thought enough, the doing will automatically follow.

Marianne Williamson

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.

Mahatma Gandhi

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