Decorative Items Quotes

When I was little, I got to pick my hair ribbon from my mother's collection that hung over her dressing-table mirror. I have an entire room of ribbons in my New York apartment.

I love nutcrackers, as I was a ballerina growing up.

I'm a big fan of twinkly things, anything sparkly.

I still have a fondness for books. Many a time I will be antiquing, and I'll say, 'What's that old-timey curio over there? What is that, a candlestick telephone, one of those old pull-chain toilets? Oh no, it's a book. I used to help make those things! I will buy it and use it to decorate my chain of casual family-dining restaurants.

I'm a magpie - I collect accessories and trinkets. But I don't have expensive tastes.

I'm a big candle guy.

Michael patted him on the shoulder. “I like this plan,” he said. “You and Eve, picking up cake and flowers, and you can’t even say a word. Should be tons of fun.” Shane almost choked, and gave Michael a sideways glare. Michael sent him a hundred-watt smile in return—no fangs, which was probably for the best.

Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.

There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around so that it looks as if the cat's been sitting on it - and it usually has. The cat may even be in it! I always put on stickers and beads and worry beads. You can get them from Greece, Israel, Palestine - from anywhere in the world.

I love trophies. I collect them in my room. I don't know, it's beautiful. Makes my phone look good.

I just always wear bows. I always love bows, and it's always been my thing.

Strider's bedroom "The only thing hanging on the wall that wasn't a weapon was the portrait just over the bed. No. Not true, he thought then. The portrait was a weapon, too. Of seduction. In it Strider was utterly naked and whisking through the cloads like an avenging angel. He was holding a teddy bear in one hand and a stream of pink ribbons in the other. Anya had given him the nearly life-size monstrasity as a joke. But the joke was on her. He loved the thing.

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

I like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in.

I'm always buying glasses and teacups. I have way too many to use, but I just love them, particularly anything vintage.

For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.

I seem to go through phases with collecting stuff: vintage Japanese men's magazines, coconut monkey carvings, '70s belt buckles.

I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.

I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.

A knick-knack is a thing that sits on top of a whatnot.

I'm not a big fan of the tchotchkes. It always reminds me of a grandma's stuffy home with a million Santa dolls.

All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.

Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating.