Michael Stipe

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

American Musician

Lulu

Because I've been around forever and ever, like wallpaper, people ask me for secrets... it's the same with my skin care range; that's out of necessity. As soon as I saw the first signs, I bought everything in the market.

Scottish Musician

Hilary Farr

In a small powder room, the inclination is to go with a light wall color. My trick is to do the opposite - such as a patterned wallpaper or a deep color on the walls. It's more interesting and makes a design statement.

British Designer

Kelly Wearstler

I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I love wrapping everyone's gifts in hand-painted wallpaper sheets, which gives the gift extra love.

American Designer

Valerie Plame

In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.

American Writer

Harrison Birtwistle

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

British Composer

Nick Flynn

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.

Anne Reid

I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?

English Actress

I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.

French Artist

Yoko Ono

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

American Artist

In home decor contexts, 'wallpaper' suggests style and design choices specific to interior spaces.

Interior Design

Using the term 'wallpaper' can refer to the act of redecorating or renovating a room.

Renovation Projects

Wallpaper can be used metaphorically to express personality or artistic taste through wall design.

Artistic Expression

'Wallpapering' can be a do-it-yourself activity, implying it's something one can do at home.

DIY Activity

The verb 'wallpaper' often comes up in discussions about home improvement and updating room aesthetics.

Home Improvement

To 'wallpaper' a room can suggest a desire to change or refresh one's environment.

Change of Scene

In a technological setting, 'wallpaper' adds a personal touch to a device, reflecting the user's taste.

Personal Touch

Digital 'wallpaper' is chosen for its visual appeal and to make device screens more pleasant to view.

Visual Appeal

'Wallpaper' in the technological sense only applies to digital screens, not physical walls.

Technological Context

 the pen and I think they would lose their culture and their way of life no doubt and if they would be happy to do so that would be fine if they were saying you know yeah I am so sick and tired of eating this sago porridge it's like wallpaper glue fine but the thing is some of these people don't they want

Borneo: Paradise Under...

 show you just say cuz it's running now so now you can see that this is live otherwise I would have given you different it's actually quite funny maybe put this microscope in focus and maybe we'll just see it run across as it can feature like one of those live wallpapers that she gauges see okay

Safari Live - Day 4 PIPE...

 and people create a space out of any found objects or materials. It's remarkable to see the design decisions that they're making, like when everything is made out of red bricks, some residents will cover that red brick with another layer of red brick-patterned wallpaper

Iwan Baan: Ingenious...

 and women in green dresses reportedly collapsed from exposure to arsenic on their skin. Bed bugs were rumored not to live in green rooms, and it's even been speculated that Napoleon died from slow arsenic poisoning from sleeping in his green wallpapered bedroom.

History’s deadliest...

 geography as a whole and not just places this is rested having a huge wallpaper back behind you really opposite visualizing all the places in the world and it's a nice place where I can just study by myself and make sure I

AZ Finalist PIPE National...

 and stood in front of the palace with my drawing in my mouth. Look at this. Doesn't it look just like wallpaper? Contemporary art, I later discovered, isn't explained by a lame story like mine. No crows are brought up.

Young-ha Kim: Be an...

 It's capillary action and transpiration pulls water up, a drop at a time, pulling it, releasing it from a leaf and pulling it up through the roots. And they're creating -- you can think of it as a kind of wallpaper.

Biomimicry in action PIPE...

 on the round tin where the matches, you said, are always stowed. Who could sleep that night? Who could whisk away the thought of the one unlikely mouse padding along a cold water pipe behind the floral wallpaper,

Billy Collins: Everyday...

 one of the first meetings was to arbitrate a very passionate debate on office wallpaper. I needed therapy to figure out how to be considerate of others' normal lives when my own life is so very different.

3 ways companies can...

 Legos encouraged me to look to the streets for inspiration I use materials of everyday life in Beirut everything from plastic toys to artificial flowers and even glittery wallpaper you see in