(14 quotes found)
“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“I like all the chairs to talk to one another and to the sofas and not those parlor-car arrangements that create two Siberias.”
Mario Buatta
“On a sofa upholstered in panther skinMona did researches in original sin.”
William Plomer
“Before, it was bunk beds and a microwave. Now it is sofas and other things we are doing on them, and we have made them a lot bigger and made the bedrooms private.”
Ray Williams
“Offering my sofa in N.H.”
Kansas
“We don't have a lot of antiques, and I like to mix and match comfortable sofas with funky items on the walls.”
Rex Rankin
“I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.”
Shirley Conran
“What a hurricane does is it completely disrupts persons' lives, ... Your meal, your sofa, your air conditioning, your clean street, the newspaper delivered, whatever -- each fragment of normalcy that you can get back to the people, it's very important for their well-being.”
Joe Riley
“Although the reasons for the rise in deaths when a parent sleeps with their infant on a sofa are unclear, we strongly recommend that parents avoid this sleeping environment.”
Peter Fleming
“Our data clearly show that SIDS is now largely confined to deprived families, and if we exclude deaths on sofas, the numbers of babies dying whilst in bed with their parents has fallen by 50 percent over the past 20 years.”
