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


Jane Green

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LEIGH CAPPILLINO I don't like posh hotels. I like small, eclectic hotels, and luxury for me would mean really goo...
AMANDA DONOHOE This music is very eclectic, ... It's tough to find musicians who are experts in 15 different styles...
DAVID GRISMAN To some, beautiful can mean a field with flowers, birds, trees, green grass and a clear blue sky, an...
RENE ALARCON Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, TIme held me green and dying Though I sang in ...
DYLAN THOMAS The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of ...
JANE AUSTEN I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old mai...
JANE AUSTEN And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has
been many a one, I fancy, o...
JANE AUSTEN My favourite eras for styles are still the 70s and 40s, and there will be a few iconic pieces to bui...
PHOEBE PHILO Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age
ALBERT EINSTEIN The decor is very traditional with a lot of local touches, local art and pottery, and other things o...
LEWIS SHROPSHIRE I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
TOM WAITS Looking forward for perfection simply means looking forward for complexity.
AHSAN HASSAN My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something tha...
NATE BERKUS I am a lover of words and tragically beautiful things, poor timing and longing, and all things with ...
NICOLE LYONS Eclectic means you can put anything together as long as it's expensive.
CHAUNCEY HOWE I love the Nineties because more than any other period of time, there was such an eclectic mix of st...
CHARLI XCX Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schoo...
MARTIN AMIS [They showed me photos of the once-smooth, lush, green lawn.] It was beautiful, ... Walking on it wa...
JIM HAYES I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.
NANCY KERRIGAN You know something is wrong when you are known for what you are against, instead of what you are for...
JADE HAJJ I love strange things; my favorite movies are weird, eclectic, and intriguing.
GEMMA ARTERTON I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.
EMMA WATSON A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
ALBERT EINSTEIN I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rath...
WALTON GOGGINS A club like Chelsea, for whom winning is a must, will play 60 matches a season and therefore needs f...
MATEJA KEZMAN Perfectionism is slow death
HUGH PRATHER It was like a pottery oven in there.
LAURENT VIBERT And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
LAETITIA CASTA Life is like a tree, even if it is not always green, it still is colourful and beautiful.
ZAIN BALOCH In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the f...
STEVE JOBS There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.
SHANNON L. ALDER Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age
ALBERT EINSTEIN Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
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DODIE SMITH Quite definitely a Bingley
LAUREN WILLIG Things I Love: The Many Collections of William I. Koch.
THE BRAVERY I think the thing about being a film composer is that you have to be pretty eclectic-be able to turn...
ANNE DUDLEY On a traffic light green means go and yellow means yield, but on a banana it's just the opposite. Gr...
MITCH HEDBERG I haven't got time in my life to do all the things I should be doing, like running and dieting a...
JENNIFER SAUNDERS One of the best things a trainer ever told me was green (horse) and green (rider) equals red ? meani...
LORI THOMSON Give it up for Harry Pottery
NIALL HORAN Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid an...
LISA ANN SANDELL I really like to go for the essence of things - the most beautiful parts of things - of human beings...
BILL KREUTZMANN With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quit...
MITCH HEDBERG In designing my bridal collections, I love mixing luxe fabrics, which give the most beautiful textur...
REEM ACRA You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you a...
WILHELM REICH The means are inconsequential, only the ens matter
RITA STRADLING I have two beautiful children and my husband. The perfect day for me is just to be with them and hav...
ALISON SWEENEY I'm 19, I'm a girl, I'm very young, I like all sorts of different things, I like all sor...
JOSS STONE I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases....
WALTER KIRN Selfish people look for success and are in great majority with good bonhomie, but others who crave f...
ANUJ SOMANY Kira is evil ... There's no denying that ... But lately I've been starting to think of it more like ...
TSUGUMI OHBA You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happen...
ROBBIE WILLIAMS The strikers' actions were violent and Solidarity is in possession of photographs showing the extent...
JAHNI COWLEY Geek and Sundry has an eclectic line-up of shows all targeted around things I love: Comics, Tabletop...
FELICIA DAY Jane, the family and the doctors keep me going.
CHARLES MUSIC But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
ANTONIO TABUCCHI I watch him inhale Mary Jane .. He kisses me and blows her into my mouth. High with Mary Jane. .. Th...
NERISSA IRVING We've had some of our season-ticket holders call this year's schedule 'eclectic' - and I like that.
JACK WALKER No person is completely wicked, just as no person is perfect. We are all grey
SHINDE SWEETY Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.
The secret is in action -...
NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ I was obsessed with the Canadian novel 'Anne of Green Gables'. I decided I was Anne of Green...
CHRISTINA HENDRICKS It's soft, lush and green -- all the things we don't like here at Oakmont.
BOB FORD Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. ...
JACK FALAHEE This is sort of a rubber match for me and Tracy.
CHERYL JOHNSON Reading gardens are a beautiful, fresh way for communities to enjoy green spaces with lasting positi...
GAIL CUNNINGHAM It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of t...
STEVEN SEAGAL I am blessed.
I am beautiful.
I am great.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas...
JANE AUSTEN As for Elizabeth Bennet, our chief reason for accepting her point of view as a reflection of her aut...
MARY LASCELLES You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.
JANE AUSTEN I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.
JANE AUSTEN I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. A...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I like you in green,’ he said. ‘You look as if you’re a very beautiful imp.’

SARA SHERIDAN If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson...
CHRIS BOHJALIAN I go for crunchy things - I like green beans, broccoli, asparagus, celery and carrots. I'm not a...
RICO RODRIGUEZ Mother Nature's job is to create beautiful things and then age, degrade and destroy them. It’s not...
KEN O. ELDIB Jane Grigson is the nearest thing that we have on this side of the great green bouillabaisse to M F ...
PHILIP HOWARD 'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of techno...
EVGENY MOROZOV In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agricultur...
CAROL P. CHRIST The fox trot and dance steps like that were our grandparents' way of dancing and we recreate those s...
JASON GILKISON Me Tarzan, you Jane.
JOHNNY WEISSMULLER Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.
ALI MACGRAW I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.
FELICITY JONES But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigila...
ANTONIO TABUCCHI It's a big, mixed eclectic list that goes from 1900 to the present day, and the Design Museum felt t...
EDDIE MORGAN I like 'Elle' magazine. I love things online, like when all the big brands have a fashion sh...
TIESTO All our wisdom is stored in the trees.
SANTOSH KALWAR For me, it's really day to day. I don't really plan ahead and I like to be excited about wha...
VICTORIA LEGRAND Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich,
OSCAR WILDE When you make it an issue, it does not just become an issue, but it also grows to become a history a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If I want to deprive you of your watch, I shall certainly have to fight for it; if I want to buy you...
MAHATMA GANDHI A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.
RONALD REAGAN.

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JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
JANE AUSTEN I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o...
JANE AUSTEN What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
JANE AUSTEN With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
JANE AUSTEN There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman t...
JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be...
JANE AUSTEN And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dea...
JANE AUSTEN America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is...
JANE ADDAMS The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
JANE ADDAMS Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion,...
JANE AUSTEN Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara...
JANE AUSTEN Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
JANE AUSTEN