Chimneys Quotes - Page 2

• Silkes and Satins put out the fire in the chimney.

  George Herbert

  Fire, Satin

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.360

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• Brands were a by-product of having great products and communicating them well to people. Power stations that generate a lot of electricity probably have a lot of steam coming out of the chimneys. That doesn't mean to say that the engineers stand around working out how to make more steam.

  Hans Snook

  Mean, People, Work Out

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• When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about what we should have done or should have become. Conscience recognizes wrong and tries to atone. But guilt turns into resentment. Conscience brings us closer to each other; guilt drives us apart. Create a new feeling. Every time guilt settles in your stomach, write "I forgive" on a piece of paper. Send it up the chimney, tear it up and flush it, put it in the garbage. Don't eat it.

  Jennifer James

  Regret, Writing, Should Have

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds Are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me

  Eva Cassidy

  Stars, Clouds, Funeral

  Song: Somewhere over the rainbow

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• There's no way the new chimney will fall down, Lu. Not with you in charge. It wouldn't dare.

  Angie Sage

  Fall, Way, Dare

  Angie Sage (2014). “Fyre: Septimus Heap”, p.229, A&C Black

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• 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 fly with the smoke out at the chimney.

  William Shakespeare

  Keys, Doors, Holes

  1599-1600 Rosalind, in disguise, toOrlando. AsYou Like It, act 4, sc.1, l.153-4.

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• With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

  Philip Sidney

  Children, Men, Play

  'The Defence of Poesie' (1595)

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• Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Death, Dust

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 4, sc. 2, l. 258

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• There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  God, One Day, World

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.251, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• We have not wondered enough at the delights God has given us to appreciate them, and be good stewards. We have overworked the land, poured pollutants into river and stream, fouled the air we breathe with gas fumes and chemical smoke spiraling up from industrial chimneys. We have sown the wind. We are reaping the whirlwind.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Wind, Land, Rivers

  Madeleine L'Engle (1986). “A Stone for a Pillow”, Shaw

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• Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.

  George Herbert

  Two, Easier

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.359

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• Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

  William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

  Summer, Soldier

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• A factory can be closed down, its chimneys smokeless, waiting for the worker to come back to his job, and all will be peaceful. But the moment workers are imported, and the striker sees his own place usurped, there is bound to be trouble.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Jobs, Waiting, Peaceful

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• The rain and hail pattered against the glass; the chimneys quaked and rocked; the crazy casement rattled with the wind, as though an impatient hand inside were striving to burst it open. But no hand was there, and it opened no more.

  Charles Dickens

  Crazy, Rain, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.500

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• The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, People, House

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• Some burn damp faggots, others may consume
  The entire combustible world in one small room
  As though dried straw, and if we turn about
  The bare chimney is gone black out
  Because the work had finished in that flare.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Small Rooms, Black

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.110, Wordsworth Editions

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• Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?

  Irving Stone

  Flames, Waiting, Soul

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• Every year, dads will dress up as Santa and try to surprise their kids by coming down the chimney, and every year, a dad gets stuck and dies.

  Kyle Dunnigan

  Dad, Kids, Years

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• If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.

  Wayne Coyne

  Kings, Suits You, Jogging

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• Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.319

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• Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Heart, Dark

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.429

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• The image by Barry Blitt of Barack Obama and Michelle in the White House with him dressed as a terrorist, her dressed as an Angela Davis character, a flag burning in the chimney, a portrait of Bin Laden on the wall is an image I'm extremely proud of.

  Francoise Mouly

  Wall, Character, White

  Source: bigthink.com

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• One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls,
  When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops.
  He mocks the guinea, challenges
  The crow, inciting various modes.
  The sparrow requites one, without intent.

  Wallace Stevens

  Challenges, Crow, Gulls

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.233, Vintage

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• ••When I walk across my living room from my chimney to my window, it takes me 10 seconds, but for a bird it takes one second, and for oxygen zero seconds!

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Zero, Oxygen, Bird

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• A cold blast hit him and he laughed at the sting as he stepped outside, surveyed the night sky, and drank deeply. Such a good liar he was. Such a good one. Everyone thought he was fine because he'd camo'd his little problems. He wore a Sox hat to hide the eye twitch. Set his wristwatch to go off every half hour to beat back the dream. Ate though he wasn't angry. Laughed though he found nothing funny. And he'd always smoked like a chimney.

  J.R. Ward

  Dream, Liars, Eye

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.387, Penguin

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