Elsa Peretti Quotes

Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.

There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Accessible design is good design.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

I always tried to design something new and of the moment. The idea was not to make something that would last, but to make something a woman could really wear when she needed it, like a good friend.

A heart makes a good home for the friend.

I love being at home, having friends over.

When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.

Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.

Personally, I like to be at home, relax, and just be around my friends.

I miss my friends in London, and I really miss New York. But I also miss the stability of staying in one place and being able to just open a drawer if you've run out of sticky tape and chuck a new roll in the holder.

I love being in people's houses.

Home life is best for me. But I do enjoy the company of good friends whether from long ago or newer friends who only know me as George, not the ex-Beatle.

Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.

Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?

I have a tradition of working with actors, over and over again. I've worked with Jason Bateman, over and over again. You get to know an actor, and you get a certain trust and a comfort, and you become really good friends, and you feel like you've got a short-hand.

Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.

It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest Home with mirth and song, or where two or three friends of simple tastes could sit about as they pleased and eat and smoke and talk in comfort and contentment.

Home in bed listening to the rain getting ready to order a pizza. Sounds like a song til the last part.

Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.

The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere.