Chimneys Quotes

93 quotes by 83 authors

The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The… — Robert Bridges
Snowstorms may yet whiten fields and gardens, high winds may howl about the trees and chimneys, but the little blue heralds persistently proclaim from the… — Neltje Blanchan
You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere. — Peter May
At present I am using a good sized bedroom in the 2 bedroom house here as a studio, and it is large enough to step… — E. J. Hughes
A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon… — John James Audubon
I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through… — Stephen King
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than… — Benjamin Franklin
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of… — Vincent Van Gogh
Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys. — Christopher Columbus
There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt… — Hubert H. Humphrey
I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly. — Steve Martin
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The… — Bertrand Russell
The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes… — Lorrie Moore
She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that… — Terry Pratchett
My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story?… — Diane Setterfield
What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? — Diane Setterfield
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill… — William Shakespeare
Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange… — H P Lovecraft

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