Roof Quotes - Page 16

• I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

  Walt Whitman

  Sound, Leaves Of Grass, World

  "Song of Myself " l. 1332 (written 1855)

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• And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.

  William Faulkner

  Lonely, Deep Water, Wind

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.82, Modern Library

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• I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.

  Dorothy Parker

  Rain, Sheep, Anecdotes

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• A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of paper that surely will outlive him. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Sweet, Blood

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• I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Book, Thinking, Imagination

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Apr 02, 2015

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• Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms. Many had no faces. Once they had been saints and angels. Two hundred years standing in London had turned them into cripples.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Angel, Years, Weather

  Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Scorpia”, p.207, Penguin

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• Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He swallowed these, and drank again. Consumed, she had no choice but to see how empty he was inside, and how, sip by sip, she filled him.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Hands, Choices

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don't take him at all...adjustments can't be all made on one side, darling, else the balance goes off and what's being built just falls down.

  Nora Roberts

  Relationship, Fall, Men

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• If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

  Charles Dickens

  Hands, Sorrow, Tears

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.488, Xist Publishing

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• When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Brother, Police, Found

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Done

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• Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by
  climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.

  Eddie Vedder

  Girl, Shoes, Climbing

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• An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there, under the clouds, a Hawaiian string quartet, lounge, concessions and, a thousand feet below, New York-a garden of golden lights winking on and off, automobiles, trucks winding in and out, and not a sound. All as silent as a dead city-and it looks adagio down there.

  Dawn Powell

  New York, Garden, Cities

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Anime, Stories, Hats

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• And luck? I've always said about Dizzy Dean that if the roof fell in and Diz was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried in the debris and a gumdrop would drop into his mouth.

  Leo Durocher

  Fall, Luck, Would Be

  "Nice Guys Finish Last".

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• In this world
  we walk on the roof of hell
  gazing at flowers

  Kobayashi Issa

  Flower, Gazing, World

  Kobayashi Issa, “In This World”

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• In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.

  Phil Lesh

  Hurt, People, Fans

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• Embedded in the gospel of Jesus Christ there are eternal principles and truths that will last far longer than the principles of building ships and roofs. You and I, as members of the Lord's true Church, have special access and insight into these eternal principles and truths, especially when we listen to the Spirit for individual guidance and hear the prophet's voice as he declares the will of God to the members of the Church. You and I both know how important these eternal principles and truths are in our lives.

  L. Tom Perry

  Jesus, Voice, Special

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• In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.

  Harry Houdini

  Fire, Flames, Mouths

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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• There is a line from Dante that says, "The arrow seen before cometh less rudely." President John F. Kennedy put one aspect of the same thought into one of his state of the union messages this way: "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." The Boy Scouts say it best of all: "Be prepared." That isn't just cracker-barrel wisdom with us; it is theology. "If ye are prepared ye shall not fear." (D&C 38:30)

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Time, Fear, Boys

  Jeffrey R. Holland (1985). “However Long and Hard the Road”, Deseret Book Co

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• Rev Run is a living legend of Hip-Hop, who's still making great music, but now he's also the dad to an amazing family, ... This series takes us inside his world. It's a kind of a reality 'Father Knows Best' with comedy, heart, Hip-Hop and drama-all under one roof at Run's House.

  Tony DiSanto

  Running, Dad, Father

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• I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in which governments have played their part which have fountains and statues and grass and trees, which are as important to the concept of the home as the roof itself.

  John F. Kennedy

  Home, Government, Presidential

  "Remarks at the Unidad Independencia Housing Project, City of Mexico". June 30, 1962.

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• When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater future possibilities, the urge to explore those possibilities becomes feverish compulsion. Intrinsic motivation goes through the roof. Thus flow becomes an alternative path to mastery, sans the misery.

  Steven Kotler

  Motivation, Mastery, Alternatives

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• An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly.

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Rain, Passion

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• You get into trouble if you criticize big business. The roof falls in if you criticize Congress. And we're getting increasingly cautious in criticizing the Administration. The pressures are getting worse.

  Howard K. Smith

  Fall, Pressure, Administration

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