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“I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!”

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Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old values and culture. My grandparents had been reasonably well-off but they became quite poor, living in an attic apartment.”

World Wells War Whole Values Culture Poor Destroyed War Of The Worlds World War I Apartment Grandparent Attics European History German History Old Values

Author:Lisel Mueller

“I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.”

“When the next generation of content is developed, we have to think in a totally different way. Think about it more symbolically. The main story that you see on the TV screen is maybe like the living room of a house. But there are various other rooms in this house that you will otherwise never see. But if you use the Internet, you find out what's in the attic. And if you use the cell phone, you find out what's on the first floor. And on another medium, you find out what's in the cellar.”

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

Persons Book Reading Successful Cleaning Attics Joy Of Reading

Author:Ann Landers

“The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.”

Age Grace Modern Stage Rate Attics Grimace

Author:Ezra Pound

“Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven years without cease on a problem that has eluded the greatest mathematical minds since first proposed in 1637.”

People Should Years Mind Firsts Problem Secret Quality Seven Cease Mathematical Mathematician Associates Seven Years Attics

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“Robert Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even - "at least not systematic"; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his Complete Poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest.”

Able Reading Pieces Air Worst Reader Pages Thirds Faithful Comment Educate Systematic Frost Having Hope Attics Homely Refutation Laconic

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?”

Might Running Lying Night Stones Woods Melody Rats Deaf April Attics Labourers

Author:Robert Bridges

“Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.”

Book Library Kitchen Public Library Attics Flavour

Author:Alberto Manguel

“The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.”

Spring Harmony Notes Throat Attics Cuckoos

Author:Thomas Gray

“Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul who opens the door to the cellar or to the attic or to the crypt when it's quite clear that no sane person would even consider it.”

Persons Soul Film Poor Clear Doors Habit Horror Hollywood Asking Sane Nasty Observers Occasional Misguided Cellars Attics Asking Why

Author:Andrew Tudor

“What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?”

Light Choices Taste Neat Attics

Book:Paradise regained, Samson Agonistes, etc

Source: Paradise regained, Samson Agonistes, etc

“Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.”

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Author:Bette Davis

“my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.”

People Young Bits Waste Ears Decades Tiny Mice Elders Attics Relays

Book:Sapogonia: An Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter

Source: Sapogonia: An Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter

“My mom would be leaving the house and she'd say, 'Don't you pull out all of the old dresses in the attic and put on a show again!' And the door would close, and that's exactly what I'd do. The show was calling me!”

Shows Would Be House Doors Mom Calling Dresses Leaving My Mom Attics

Author:Michael Patrick King

“The leaves of these [larch] trees are like those of the pine; timber from them comes in long lengths, is as easily wrought in joiner's work as is the clearwood of fir, and contains a liquid resin, of the color of Attic honey, which is good for consumptives.”

Long Tree Color Length Honey Liquid Attics Timber

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“The imagination doesn't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever's there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool, dark attic, which the writer nervously visits from time to time; and yes, oh dear, while he's been hard at work downstairs, up in the attic there are puckering skins, warning spots, a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes. What can he do about it?”

Writing Years Littles Sometimes Hard Imagination Dark Too Much Tree Skins Fruit Dear Spots Brown Warning Collapse Crops Snowflake Attics Trays Fruit Trees

Author:Julian Barnes

“If I'm stuck, I get up from my chair and I wash windows. Or... clean the bathroom. Or vacuum the attic. There's always something to be done.”

Ifs Done Window Clean Stuck Get Up Chairs Bathroom Vacuums Attics

Author:David Sedaris

“I cleaned the attic with the wife the other day. Now I can't get the cobwebs out of her hair.”

I Can Humor Funny Wife Hair Attics Cobwebs

Author:Tommy Cooper

“You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one.”

“When you're big you don't need a reason to sweat. You don't, right? My friends cannot grab a hold of this concept. They come up to me all the time like Jeez! What have you been doing? What are ya jumpin rope in the attic?! Well, I peeled an orange.. about an hour ago. Why, what's up?”

Needs Wells Reason Bigs Hours Concepts My Friends Come Up Sweat Orange Rope Attics

Author:Kevin James

“You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic.”

Way May Young Clothes Boxes Embarrassed Attics Wacky

Author:John Oates

“In the attic, a warhead no doubt burns. Everything is combustible. Faith burns. Trust burns. Everything burns to nothing and even nothing burns. . . . And when there is nothing, there is nothing worth dying for and when there is nothing worth dying for, there is only nothing.”

Love Doubt Dying No Doubt Attics

Author:Tim O'Brien

“It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief in an omnipotent, omniscient, and compassionate God. But what was God doing while Katrina laid waste to their city? Surely He heard the prayers of those elderly men and women who fled the rising waters for the safety of their attics, only to be slowly drowned there.”

“When I was little, I would always lie about the stupidest things. In kindergarten or first grade, I would tell people I had tigers living in my attic and a room full of gold.”

People Firsts Littles Lying Rooms Gold Grades Tigers Kindergarten Stupidest Attics

Author:Kendall Jenner

“My first crush was this kid in kindergarten who told me he had tigers in his attic as well.”

Firsts Wells Kids Crush Tigers Kindergarten Attics First Crush

Author:Kendall Jenner

“Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.”

Thinking Years Two Strong Careers Knowing Training Built Foundation Greek Two Years Latin Longevity Attics Strong Foundation

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple or two) a means to hang myself, the garage a place to inhale carbon monoxide, the bathtub a vessel to receive the flow from my opened arteries. The kitchen knives in their drawers had but one purpose for me.”

Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

“I do have a trophy room. It's in my attic in boxes.”

Rooms Boxes Trophies Attics

Author:Troy Polamalu

“I just saw Titanic, which is a $200 million film about a real-life disaster at sea, but according to Hollywood Logic, none of the actual passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend, to perk up that attic.”

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Author:Paul Rudnick

“Every writer has to make an emotional journey from artist sitting in attic to being part of a business. The writer of a film is like Tinkerbell. You are only there because people believe in you. The moment they dont, because youre a pain the arse, youve lost.”

People Believe Moments Pain Film Artist Lost Journey Emotional Sitting Believe In You Attics Arses Tinkerbell

Author:Julian Fellowes

“According to Hollywood logic, none of the actual Titanic passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend, to perk up that attic.”

Giving Enough Seems Bits Interesting Style Couple Directors Logic Hollywood Tiny Heat Frank Catastrophe Passengers Juliet Perks Attics Wacky

Author:Paul Rudnick

“I had these couple of hippie guy friends who were super broke and living in the attic of somebody's house and they were like, "We don't have any food, man." And so I decided to go to the grocery store and steal chicken pot pie. And I stuck it inside my clothes. I took a couple frozen chicken pot pies and stuck them inside my pants, and I got caught walking out of the store. And they took me in the back room, and - luckily, I was 14, but I had a fake ID saying I was 18, so they didn't call my parents.”

“My early stories revolved around reality and faith. I wrote a series of stories about the darker aspects of Christian myth: a woman who hides in the attic and watches the Apocalypse, a cult whose members preserve themselves in huge formalin tubs waiting for the Second Coming, and so on.”

Stories Reality Christian Waiting Watches Huge Members Aspect Series Myth Preserves Cult Apocalypse Attics Tubs

Author:Karin Tidbeck

“People say to me, "When did you come out?" But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I'd found in an attic, saying, "I am a beautiful princess!" What my parents thought of this, I don't know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.”

People Knows Real Problem Beautiful Mother Found House Parent Sin Six Clothes Grandmother Princess Bores My Grandmother Real Problems Attics

Author:Quentin Crisp

“I really enjoyed working on the 2009 film, 'Aliens in the Attic,' because it was shot in New Zealand and I got to visit there for the first time.”

Firsts Film Shots First Time Aliens Enjoyed New Zealand Attics

Author:Kevin Nealon

“'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.”

Kind Night Asks Black Flower Horror Late Albums Eras Scare Legends Urban Seventies Sabbath Jessica Late Night Attics Black Sabbath Downers Ambience Album Covers Urban Legends

Author:Rob Sheffield

“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.”

Found Mines Guitar Canada Uncles Attics Friends For Life

Author:Sting

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

Past Sound Comedy Attics Ominous Armchairs

Author:James Thurber

“You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!”

Should Baseball Quarters Caps Beam Attics Baseball Caps

Author:Alex Trebek

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

People Fields Studios Wander Invites Cellars Attics

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“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.”

World Want Dare Lovely Attics Lovely Things

Book:The Winter of our Discontent

Source: The Winter of our Discontent

“In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in an attic. I wanted to polish him with kisses, clean him up, make him evevn more radiant than he was. "That's what you always want," he said softly... "When you found me under Les Innocents," he said, "you wanted to bathe me with perfume and dress me in velvevt with great embroidered sleeves." "Yes," I said, "and comb your hair, your beautiful russet hair." My tone was angry. "You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.”

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

Building Garage Barns Attics

Book:The Favourite Game

Source: The Favourite Game

“That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.”

People Thinking Years Country Night Sound Walks Sun Quiet Late Rain Rivers Empty Passing Passings Hills Autumn Twilight Closets Coal Midnight Fog Mist Noon Dusk Cellars Attics Pantry

Book:THE OCTOBER COUNTRY

Source: THE OCTOBER COUNTRY

“Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley.”

Firsts Mean Remember Father Memories My Own Tree Let Me Details Naked Piano Breasts Womb Ohio Columbus Attics Ukulele Polling Mckinley Columbus Ohio

Book:THE THURBER CARNIVAL

Source: THE THURBER CARNIVAL

“I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with friends, lovers, children and heros; perceived, remembered, imagined, distorted and clarified.”

Children Sky Hero Lovers Garden Window Corners Remembered Bedroom Carpet Doorways Basements Sidewalk Around The Corner Attics

Book:Another Roadside Attraction

Source: Another Roadside Attraction

“The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.”

Window Atheist Caught Believer Staring Caught Up God Image Attics

Author:Martin Buber

“I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic--I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.”

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Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

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