Attic Quotes

82 quotes by 74 authors

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic. — Stephen King
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… — Ann Hood
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident… — Ernest Lawrence
While I was there, I was just gathering images and names, and ideas and rhythms, and I was storing all of these things - which… — Robbie Robertson
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… — Laurence Olivier
Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken seriously. — Barry Nelson
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer — Peter Ustinov
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
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… — Michel Gondry
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… — Paul Muni
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.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecterâ€™s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held… — Thomas Harris
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his… — Eugene H. Peterson
Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get… — Aristotle Onassis
The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long. — John Milton
I've read Flowers in the Attic and The Other Side of Midnight and Go Ask Alice and I don't want to read any more books… — Rebecca Godfrey
What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible… — Stanley Kauffmann
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
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… — Michael Graves

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