Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“for the first time since I have lived in it, this old house seemed like home.” — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards. — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
“He had been walking for a long time, ever since dark in fact, and dark falls soon in December. ("The Old House… — Charlotte Riddell Copy Share Image
Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in… — Lorene Scafaria Copy Share Image
Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them. — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses. — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
My partner, Patrick, and I live in an old house in Belgium that was built in 1840 and is out in the… — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don’t haunt old houses or abandoned… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“My streets, my cistern. My old house. Its beams, floorboards and staircase creaked slightly, almost imperceptibly, with a dry, uniform, almost constant… — Ismail Kadare Copy Share Image
I highly recommend Aubrey Plumbing Company. I did extensive remodeling on a large, old house in the Murphy, TX. Aubrey Plumbing basically… — Tom Brewer Copy Share Image
“In an old house,' he said, 'there is sometimes an atmosphere of evil.' 'That's it, sir,' said Ellen, eagerly. 'Evil. Bad thoughts… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Larry said that Michelangelo was a poof, so I wondered why he’d sculpted a guy with a really tiny cock. But I… — J.L. Merrow Copy Share Image
“History was like an old house at night. With all the lamps lit. And ancestor whispering inside. To understand history, we have… — Arundhati Roy; The God of Small Things Copy Share Image
I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century.… — Catherine Martin Copy Share Image
“Charlotte had never forgotten it - she was always looking for it. An old house facing seaward, ships going up and down.… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“You'll marry me, my dragon, and you'll bear my children, and you'll drive me mad and live in that ramshackle old house… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
It is a thought as sweet as heaven to know that in the minds of each of us the may by the… — Eve Langley Copy Share Image
“BODY OF LIES When he looked at her again, he gestured toward her attire. “I take it you haven’t packed anything yet.”… — Deirdre Savoy Copy Share Image
Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all… — Ben Maddow Copy Share Image
I heard a knock upon my door the other day I opened it to find death staring in my face The feel… — Falling In Reverse Copy Share Image
“When do you think you're leaving?" I asked. "I don't know. Probably soon. Got what I came here for." "Even though we… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“…though he hated to admit it, they were all Anglophiles. They were a family of Anglophiles. Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“She truly hates being on the East Coast. All this humidity and greenery. She'd do almost anything to avoid the past. Most… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“And so we have gone back over the television we recall watching before we gave it up entirely and made a list… — Pope Michael Copy Share Image
“Very well, but - who are you?' again asked Gil Gil, in whom curiosity was beginning to get the better of every… — Pedro Antonio de Alarcón Copy Share Image
“She had been looking all round her again—at the lawn, the great trees, the reedy, silvery Thames, the beautiful old house; and… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Jocelyn, as the bus rolled along, looked across a space of green grass, elm-bordered, to the grey mass of the Cathedral. Its… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“She glanced over her shoulder at the house, which was now bathed in a warm tint of yellow from the sun. "Yes,… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Why do old houses creak so much?" he asked idly, playing with her braid and drawing the silky end across her cheek.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
“She loved old houses and old legends well enough to enjoy them; but was not sufficiently credulous to believe, or cowardly to… — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
