Attics Quotes

• So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

  John Steinbeck

  Lovely, World, Want

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.85, Penguin

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• It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine.' Yet, I hesitate to name our story that. For I think of us more as flowers in the attic.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Flower, Sunshine, Thinking

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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• Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.

  Leonard Cohen

  Barns, Building, Garage

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.19, Emblem Editions

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• 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

  Funny Inspirational, Knowledge, Men

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.13, ebookspub

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• No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

  Ann Landers

  Book, Reading, Successful

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• I don't really have studios. I wander around - around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

  Andrew Wyeth

  People, Fields, Wander

  Time Magazine, August 18, 1986.

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• In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

  Charles de Lint

  Time, Dark, Mind

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.124, Macmillan

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• Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Healing, Air

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Oct 20, 2013

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• The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

  James Thurber

  Past, Sound, Comedy

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• 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 the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!

  Gaston Bachelard

  Happiness, Children, Games

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• A clean basement, garage and attic are signs of an empty life.

  Doug Larson

  Empty Life, Clean, Garage

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• I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Girl, Smart, Princess

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• A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Business, Men, Brain

  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) "Five Orange Pips"

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• 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 Book.

  Laurence Olivier

  Book, Eye, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Eight, Magic, Toys

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• 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 actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.

  Paul Muni

  Writing, Cameras, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Uncles, Unfortunate Things, Peculiar

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• Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

  Arnold Wesker

  Dirty, Suffering, Tuberculosis

  "Commercial productions sweep up at theatre awards" by Mark Honigsbaum, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2005.

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• An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

  Sting

  Uncles, Guitar, Canada

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• I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

  Peter Ustinov

  Small Rooms, Office, Diplomats

  "Words and Their Masters". Book by Israel Shenker, 1974.

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• 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 to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Moving, Mean, Appreciate

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• 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 over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.

  Michel Gondry

  Song, Home, Garden

  Interview with Sandra Hebron, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2007.

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• 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 our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner.

  Ann Hood

  Daughter, Mother, Rain

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• Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Mistake, Sight

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.

  Alice Hoffman

  Husband, Dark, Night

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.260, Penguin Group

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