When I had no roof I made audacity my roof. — Robert Pinsky
The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland. — Anne Frank
The sky's the limit if you have a roof over your head. — Sol Hurok
I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious! — Steven Wright
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. — A. E. Housman
Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's Catacomb? — Emily Dickinson
An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open. — Walter Darby Bannard
I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere! — Axel Munthe
My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul. — Michel de Montaigne
Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room. — Albert Hadley
Short Attic Quotes
The store of rice in your attic is your enemy — it makes them who have none very jealous. — Thai Proverbs
And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps — Thom Yorke
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things. — G. Gordon Liddy
Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached. — Leonard Cohen
My first crush was this kid in kindergarten who told me he had tigers in his attic as well. — Kendall Jenner
Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic. — Stephen King
Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing. — Julia Cameron
Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic. — Terry Pratchett
No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic. — Ann Landers
A clean basement, garage and attic are signs of an empty life. — Doug Larson
Atticus Quotes
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts. — Harper Lee
Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough. — Harper Lee
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. — Harper Lee
Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. — Harper Lee
You rarely win, but sometimes you do. — Harper Lee
There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them. — Harper Lee
This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home. — Harper Lee
Atticus, he was real nice.
Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them. — Harper Lee
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. — Harper Lee
No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than yours, plus a bonus for alliteration." I grinned. "It's a deal. You're the best hound ever. — Kevin Hearne
Even in Hitler’s Germany you could cross the Alps into Switzerland, you could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends. — Rob Sheffield
I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner. — Ann Hood
It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine.' Yet, I hesitate to name our story that. For I think of us more as flowers in the attic. — Virginia C. Andrews
A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT. — Meg Cabot
I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that's what I did, gluing and nailing them together. — Kurt Schwitters
People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it. — Harlan Ellison
When I was little, I would always lie about the stupidest things. In kindergarten or first grade, I would tell people I had tigers living in my attic and a room full of gold. — Kendall Jenner
The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head. — Michael Graves
Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them. — Jodi Picoult
I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books. — C. S. Lewis
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. — James Thurber
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. — Arthur Conan Doyle
My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home. — Michel Gondry
An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life. — Sting
I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass! — Meshell Ndegeocello
Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency. — John Steinbeck
I don't really have studios. I wander around - around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me. — Andrew Wyeth
At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore. — Erica Jong
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic. — James Broughton
We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska. — Amory Lovins
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. — Peter Ustinov
Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering? — Arnold Wesker
my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic. — Ana Castillo
Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready at his hand! How I should have slipped up to him in his quiet hour, noiselessly climbing the winding stair to take him by surprise, and then with talk and music we should have held heavenly festival throughout the night! — Hermann Hesse
What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel — Francine Prose
I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book. — Laurence Olivier
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman. — Sinclair Lewis
A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning. — Paul Muni
The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring. — Thomas Gray
Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen. — Alberto Manguel
The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long. — John Milton
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. [...] It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. [...] It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. — Arthur Conan Doyle
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