Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them. — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
“These old houses are only brick and wood, soaked in human sweat, grained with human dirt.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Give me an old house full of memories and I will give you hundred novels!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The moment you let your courage leave you, you turn to an abandoned old house! — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
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
Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
In these old houses, I mean, we're here in the 17th century part of the palace and I can really belt out… — Princess Michael of Kent 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
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
All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I gave away the money advanced from my record company on my first album, I'm the type of person who likes to… — Jo Dee Messina 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
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
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
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
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
There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
“He would not chance arrest by crawling into a corner of one of the old houses on Lower Broadway where the cops… — William Kennedy 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
“The old house had a thousand doors in it. All old houses do. You can see them if you know how to… — Michael Montoure Copy Share Image
We don't have to remain in this radically destructive mind-set and institutional-set. We can change, and the natural order of things could… — Dee Hock 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
An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out. — Lucy Maud Montgomery 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
“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
My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas… — Henry James Copy Share Image
We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that… — Joseph Goebbels 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
I would love to take an old space and restore it to exactly the way I want it. Like an old factory,… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But thats only because people only see that side of me… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
And there were times when one yielded quite shamelessly to the sentimental. They were more likely to be times of crickets, I… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
“I thought,” Eleanor said carefully, “that I might even look around. Old houses are usually cheap, you know, and it’s fun to… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image