Old Houses Quotes - Page 2

• You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don’t haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds.

  David Wong

  Dark, Night, House

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.18, Titan Books

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• Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

  John le Carre

  Tyrants, House, Tyranny

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• I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my nose and nearly pass out. It smells of old houses and aged wood and dark secrets, but also of hard, hot sunshine through ancient shutters and long, wicked afternoons in a four-poster bed. It's not a wine, it's a life, right there in the glass.

  Nick Harkaway

  Wine, Sunshine, Dark

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• Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all overthe place for no sensible reason. A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?

  Ben Maddow

  Kids, Fate, Gun

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• There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before we met. It was an old house, old colonial house, 1734. And there were just a few friends at the funeral, a nonsectarian cemetery. And an old friend of hers from junior high school or high school was the rabbi in town, and he performed the service.

  Gene Wilder

  School, House, Funeral

  Source: keranews.org

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• The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.

  Paul Lynde

  Long, House, Dining

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• My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest.

  Sebastian Junger

  Wife, House, Tree

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• For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children

  Fred Thompson

  Children, House, May

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• When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Dream, House, Church

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1926.

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• It is a thought as sweet as heaven to know that in the minds of each of us the may by the fence still blooms in an eternal springtime; that the snowdrop has in our hearts a triple birth, and blooms in three separate minds, faultlessly... So that if all the flowers and grasses and hollows and hills of the old house were razed and mutilated - as they are now, I suppose - we keep them intact in three minds, each depending on the other to supply it with the delicate minutiae of remembrance.

  Eve Langley

  Sweet, Art, Women

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• 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 brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are, as he shows us, the instruments of joy, the way into mature Christian spirituality and abundant life.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Christian, Spiritual, Brother

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• I gave away the money advanced from my record company on my first album, I'm the type of person who likes to give. I gave to my sister. She has four little babies and bought an old house and it needed repairs.

  Jo Dee Messina

  Baby, Giving, House

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• My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.

  Ted Allen

  Fun, Years, Space

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Dream, New York, Home

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• I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.

  Martha Stewart

  Hate, House, Bigs

  "Martha Stewart Geeks Out For Wired's Annual How To Guide". Interview with Mark Frauenfelder, www.wired.com. July 24, 2007.

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• I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But thats only because people only see that side of me when Im at work, in front of the camera. So they dont see Miranda at home; they dont see behind the scenes. They see the glamour of it all but they dont see Miranda standing barefoot in a dirty old house.

  Miranda Kerr

  Confused, Dirty, Home

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• Like the morning you walked out of that old house, when you were eighteen and I was, well, I had just turned nineteen, hadn't I? I was a nineteen-year-old and I was in love with Louis and I was in love with you, and I thought I had never seen anything so beautiful as the sight of you walking out a glass door in the early morning, still sleepy, in your underwear. Isn't it strange?

  Michael Cunningham

  Beautiful, Morning, Love You

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.199, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Science, House, Details

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• It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their whole-hearted commitment to life.

  Arundhati Roy

  Children, Commitment, Eye

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• We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

  Loretta Lynn

  Book, House, Fans

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.5, Vintage

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• My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.

  Kim Edwards

  Lonely, Strong, Jobs

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• Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.

  Kent McCord

  Children, Real, Home

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