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I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it. -- Cristina Saralegui
Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. -- Anna Quindlen
If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree! -- Sylvester Stallone
After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement. -- Albert Hadley
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
Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul. -- Albert Hadley
The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there. -- Duff Goldman
Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same. -- Rachael Ray
I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time. -- Nate Berkus
Decorating has always been my hobby. -- Lee Radziwill
Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting. -- Charlotte Moss
Decorating is not a look, it's a point of view. -- Albert Hadley
Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well. -- Charlotte Moss
Decorating the gym can't mask the fact that it smells like a mix between corsage and balls. -- Daniel Tosh
Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key. -- Charlotte Moss
Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They don't copy each other - or build themselves nests as described in The Birds' Decorating Magazine. -- Dorothy Draper
Decorating in relation to hotels is really nothing more than planned showmanship or the art of attracting attention in a delightful way and thus creating an increased consumer acceptance. It gives the guest the feeling of anticipation, excitement, expectancy, delight, and pride in the management of his favorit hotel. -- Dorothy Draper
I bought a house, and I've been decorating it -- Charlie Hunnam
Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason. -- Sister Parish
My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch. -- Katharine McPhee
Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. -- Nirmalananda
I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with -- Suzy Bogguss
I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with. -- Suzy Bogguss
I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. -- Jeanette Winterson
Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating. -- Albert Hadley
By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.' -- Virginia Postrel
Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer. -- Ron Ben-Israel
I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I've always dreamed about decorating my baby's nursery. -- Rebecca Romijn
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works. -- Steve Jobs
An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view. -- Albert Hadley
When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams. -- Pippa Middleton
I haven't got time in my life to do all the things I should be doing, like running and dieting and decorating my house, buying some furniture. -- Jennifer Saunders
Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage. -- Peter Behrens
I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers! -- Johnny Vegas
What a house. Turns out they're doing OK, the Malfoy's. However, the interior decorating leaves a lot to be desired. And needless to say, Voldemort isn't the greatest houseguest. -- Tom Felton
Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now. -- Picabo Street
I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture. -- Andy Goldsworthy
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. -- Steve Jobs
Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance. -- Tove Jansson
I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all! -- Joe Nichols
Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family. -- Samantha Isler
I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he? -- Ian St. John
I don't think of decorating as a science or a discipline. People always say start with the rug, but it is often the last thing I end up selecting. I begin with whatever makes my heart sing. -- Deborah Buck
Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little. -- Malaika Arora Khan
I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and finding perfect gifts for everyone. -- Tess Gerritsen
After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment - its floor plan not much bigger than the vintage Hermes scarves I then wore side-knotted on my head, pirate-style. -- Hamish Bowles
The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting. -- Hamish Bowles
I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business. -- Rick Astley
My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that's obviously modern with it. You can't put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle. -- Nate Berkus
I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea. -- Jennifer Lopez
I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Fans don't mind him doing a little touch-up work, but Jesus wants complete renovation. Fans come to Jesus thinking tune-up, but Jesus is thinking overhaul. Fans think a little makeup is fine, but Jesus is thinking makeover. Fans think a little decorating is required, but Jesus wants a complete remodel. Fans want Jesus to inspire them, but Jesus wants to interfere with their lives. -- Kyle
I also love real estate and decorating. -- Deana Carter
She wanted out of the decorating scheme. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
Cooking is like decorating - it never bores me. -- Robert Denning
Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs. -- Antonin Scalia
Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. -- Hillary Clinton
A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors. -- Joseph Chilton Pearce
I like interior decorating. I really like to build houses. And landscaping, I like that. -- Ester Dean
You might be a redneck if you watch Little House on the Prairie for decorating tips. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking. -- Paulo Coelho
For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers. -- Jane Green
I would like to be invisible because I'd love to go into people's houses and see their interior decorating. -- Rachel McAdams
I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me. -- Gloria Vanderbilt
Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off. Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final defence of the dying. (252) -- Suzanne Collins
I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it. -- Max Greenfield
My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing. -- Candace Bushnell
I like to add personal touches to my decorating style, including photographs and nostalgic items that remind me of family and home. -- Karlie Kloss
The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have. -- Deborah Needleman
My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.' -- Candace Bushnell
All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast. -- Warren Zevon
I'm decorating my parents' house for Christmas... I hope they find my manger with a baby yeezus in it as funny as I do! -- Lisa Lampanelli
No matter what our decorating style - realized or aspired to the essential spiritual grace our home should possess is the solace of comfort. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
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'm an actor. I'm just a creative person. I figure if I wasn't a good writer, I'd take to renovating homes... not renovating... decorating homes. -- Andrea Gabriel
In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
Acting becomes my real job, writing becomes my second job, and then when I turn 50, I think I'm going to open up an interior decorating company. -- Ester Dean
Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people. -- George Monbiot
My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture. -- Anne Hathaway
The concept of having staple pieces with clean, basic lines, and adding accessories to funk it all up is one that applies to both fashion and decorating. There are so many parallels. -- Jeremiah Brent
Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from 'Ace of Cakes' at Duff's Charm City Cakes. It's, like, 4 three-hour classes. -- Busy Philipps
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

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