Garret Quotes

27 Garret quotes by 21 unique authors

Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their… — Henry Ward Beecher
Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained… — Unknown Author
The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed;… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
Born in a cellar, and living in a garret. — Samuel Foote
In Paris, friend of Bequerel’s, a young physicist-chemist couple named Pierre and Marie Curie, began to scour the natural world for even more powerful chemical… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek… — Charles Baudelaire
If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me… — Henry David Thoreau
To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it? — Edith Wharton
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour… — Lincoln Child
I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret'… — Felix Dennis
Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply… — H P Lovecraft
Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me… — Henry David Thoreau
Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has… — Gaston Bachelard
I pointed in the general vicinity of my left ovary, "This is Beam Me Up." Then to my right. "And this is Scotty." Garret chuckled… — Darynda Jones
Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line. — Rollo May
Though if love was an animal, Garret knew, it would probably be the Loch Ness Monster. If it didn’t exist, that didn’t matter. People made… — Tao Lin
Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
...In Paris she found Magnus, who was living in a garret apartment and paiting, an occupation for which he had no aptitude whatsoever. He let… — Cassandra Clare
Garret Swopes was a lot like a hot gay friend only he wasn't gay, which was too bad because then I could tell him how… — Darynda Jones
There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for… — Gaston Bachelard
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, where, creeping in… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me… — Henry David Thoreau

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