Best Wallpaper Quotes

John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

My friend Sally is a nudist. I went to her house. The closets have no doors. The walls are covered with see-through wallpaper. — Steven Wright

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life. — Nick Flynn

He had a long thin nose, a moustache like flock wallpaper, sparse, carefully combed hair, and the complexion of a Hovis loaf. — Len Deighton

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. — Alistair Cooke

If I were in a room full of people, I'd rather be the person who is more interesting than the one who is wallpaper. — Marilyn Manson

The room was too much there. I could feel the color of the wallpaper
burgundy
invading. — Rivka Galchen

Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, - to dress and entertain, and order things — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Sunlight is bad,' he wheezes. 'It's the exact same stuff as breeds maggots in wounded soldiers' legs. And when there's no war on, it fades wallpaper. — Michel Faber

When you had the world and your body as canvases, why deal in squares of wallpaper? — Kim Stanley Robinson

I am offended only by certain sorts of wallpaper — Thomas Pynchon

I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper. — Yoko Ono

We may yearn for rustic detail and old-world charm, but those who have it set their minds on vinyl wallpaper, fitted carpets and all mod cons. — Tahir Shah

Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed ...
This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go. — Oscar Wilde

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper. — Alistair Cooke

Television news is akin to audible wallpaper. — George F. Will

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of ... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich. — Norman Rockwell

Doesn't this place give you the creeps? You could perhaps do something with some floral wallpaper and a fire-bomb. — Terry Pratchett

Poetry served as a sort of intellectual wallpaper to brighten up the closet. — Paul Monette

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology. — David Bromstad

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it). — Katy Lederer

I could wallpaper a room with rejection letters. — Robin Moore

Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings. — Gunter Grass

History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned. — Demetri Martin

It's music as wallpaper, utilitarian, music as Prozac or Xanax to control how you feel. Music as aerosol room freshener. — Chuck Palahniuk

Content alone is propaganda; form alone is wallpaper. — Philip Jones Griffiths

My childhood bedroom had wallpaper that was printed with clouds and rainbows. — Brad Goreski

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go. — Oscar Wilde

We'll sleep together tonight trying to fit ourselves inside the wallpaper. — Charles Bukowski

I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath. — Shimon Attie