“So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
“Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has… — John Le Carre 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
Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
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
“Here in the shadow of the firs lay everything the old house had spat out in the course of its life, everything… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“But my heart is an old house (the kind my mother grew up in) hell to heat and cool and faulty in… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
I'm very lucky to go back to my old club, my old home, my old house. To start my new chapter in… — Javier Hernandez Copy Share Image
The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from… — Paul Lynde Copy Share Image
“We drove past our old house,” the woman told me, “and I noticed that the tree he had watered through the droughts… — Eula Biss 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
“You make me thirsty, Promethea, my river, you make me eternally thirsty, my water. As if I had spent my life in… — Hélène Cixous 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
“Sometimes I worry that I'll slide back into the mindless rotisserie of work and projects that guided me in my old house...… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
“Trees arched over the road, their scraggly arms outstretched. Spring was on its way, though ice was still trapped in tree crevices,… — Jaime Jo Wright Copy Share Image
“Shawn slowly climbed the old wooden stairs, listening to the low creak that sounded from his footsteps. He hoped the wood wouldn’t… — Joe DeRouen Copy Share Image
“The sidewalk was all cracked and wavy, like little hills, and the weeds pushed their way up through the cement. I had… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
“The two worst things ever invented was air-conditioning and television. First, the air-conditioning made it so folks didn’t want to go out… — Pamela Duncan Copy Share Image
“I love you, Godric St. John, and now I'm breaking my word. I will not leave you. You may either come with… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“Danny and the Memories was the band at the root of Crazy Horse. They were a vocal group with Danny Whitten, Ralphie,… — Neil Young 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
“…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
“And as if by magic - and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“...Until they stood at last by a crumbling wall, looking up and up and still farther up at the great tombyard top… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I am constantly mystified by what John ends up remembering… I just don’t understand why he’s able to hang on to information… — Michael Zadoorian Copy Share Image
“I call it Joy. 'Animal-Land' was not imaginative. But certain other experiences were... The first is itself the memory of a memory.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“MY MOST CONSTANT and vivid memory is not so much of the people but of the actual house in Aracataca where I… — Gerald Martin 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
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
“Memory, I must suppose, if it is neglected becomes like a box room, or a lumber room in an old house, the… — Sebastian Barry 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
“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
“The cold November sun sent weak rays onto the floor of the old house. The floor beneath snickered, trying hard to hold… — J. Thorn 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
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
