“On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, Cain, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain's brother Abel probably never saw it coming. As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding. For freaking Cain.” PeopleFirstsHumansChildrenWholeParentUnderstandingBornHuman BeingsRaceSawsFourDoorsPlanetsBrotherFitMurderFilledKillingRageViolentMortalsJealousBrutalApartmentBloodyIntuitiveCrowdedCapsGenesisCainMetaphoricalAbel Book:Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files Source: Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files
“I didn't have much, but I was always happy to share what I did have. It seemed like every African that came to New York City would show up at my apartment door at dinnertime, and I couldn't turn them away. I wasn't much older than any of them, but they started calling me 'Mama Africa' and the name stuck.” ShowsTurnsNamesCitiesDoorsShareNew YorkCallingStuckNew York CityApartmentMamaAlways Happy Author:Miriam Makeba
“Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.” WritingWholeHouseSoundVoiceBehindsNiceWrittenDoorsWallWhole LifeLiftsApartmentDetachedClosed DoorsBehind Closed DoorsVilla Book:Writing Home Source: Writing Home
“when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says Private - grownups keep out: a children sprawled on the bed, reading.” IfsKnowsChildrenBookReadingWalksDoorsBedTablesReading BooksApartmentShelvesToiletsTanksGrownups Author:Anne Fadiman
“There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal.” LittlesDoorsHavensCookingDinnerHealApartmentClosingNestsTuning Author:Tim Gunn
“There was one time they knocked me out and laid me in front of my mother's door. And in order for my mother not to be shocked they readjusted my clothes and they saw that nothing was rumpled and I looked very comfortable next to the apartment door, so when my mother would open the door it wouldn't be that much of a shock.” MotherOrderNextSawsDoorsFrontsComfortableClothesShockOne TimeApartmentShocked Author:Jack Kirby
“The thing about that singles apartment is you never had to clean it up... until the day you got the security deposit back. You're arguing with the landlord... 'No sir, the back door was missing when we moved in here! The pizzas were always on the ceiling!'” HumorFunnyDoorsSecurityMissingMovedCleanArguingApartmentPizzaCeilingsSinglesDepositsLandlordBack Doors Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“One day, when I came home from work, I accidentally put my car key in the door of my apartment building. I turned it, and the whole building started up. So I drove it around. A policeman stopped me for going too fast. He said, "Where do you live?" I said, "Right here!" Then I drove my building onto the middle of a highway, and I ran outside, and told all of the cars to get the hell out of my driveway.” SaidWholeHomeHumorFunnyHellDoorsMiddleCarBuildingKeysOne DayRanApartmentHighwaysPolicemenDrivewayCar Keys Author:Steven Wright
“I think in certain ways sex work has been romanticized. I can only speak from my experience, but what surprised me about escorting was how boring it mostly is. it seemed like an assembly line process of cleaning my apartment, dressing up, making awkward small talk, having mundane mechanical sex, making more awkward small talk, and then closing the door after them. There's also a lot of frustration and annoyance with it that I feel isn't discussed (a lot of flaky potential clients for instance.)” ThinkingWayFeelsHas BeensI CanCertainSpeakSexProcessLinesDoorsBoringInstanceFrustrationAwkwardApartmentClientsCleaningDressingsClosingMundaneAssemblyDressing UpAnnoyanceSex WorkSmall TalkAssembly LineEscorting Author:Marie Calloway
“My latest theory is that it's - well, I describe it as, like, being in an apartment with kind of thin walls. And in the apartment next door, they've got a radio tuned constantly on - tuned to a really cool radio station. It's on all the time. And you can just hear it coming through the wall all the time.” WellsKindNextDoorsTheoryWallRadioStationsApartmentReally CoolRadio Stations Author:Nick Lowe
“Now why the hell would I want to increase the volume of my ejaculation ? They can already hear me in the apartment next door.” WantNextSexHellDoorsIncreaseApartmentVolumeEjaculation Author:Donald Fagen
“My daughter lives in an apartment (hovel) in Brooklyn, so disgusting the roaches don't even bother hiking up the four flights of stairs to her door. Did I mention that she has a family of mice living under her stove? If she would promise to carry a weapon in her bag, I would never ask her to visit again. Best Mother's Day gift I could ask for!” IfsMotherAsksFourDoorsPromiseWeaponsDaughterFlightBotherBagsMy DaughterHikingDisgustingApartmentMiceMothers DayStairsBrooklynStovesBest MotherRoaches Author:Kate Siegel
“About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.” YearsMadeHandsNextComedyDoorsWallYears AgoToolsRadioHolesApartmentFistsComedy Movie Author:Klaus Kinski