Quotes of: Old-house Keyword

For so long, maybe all my life, I thought only a house could make you whole. I thought I was nothing without an interesting address. I thought I was only as good as my color scheme, my drawer pulls, my floors....it's the knowledge that a house can be...

Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House

Edward D. Wood, Jr.: ...and then, Dr. Vornoff falls into the pit, and his own octupus attacks and eats him. The end. Old Man McCoy: Whew! That's quite a story. Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Yes. Old Man McCoy: So, uh, you made the movie, and now you wanna mak...

Ed Wood

Two scorpions living in the same hole will get along better than two sisters in the same house.

Arabian

Whoever buys a house must examine the beams; whoever wants a wife must look at her mother.

Chinese

Better to have one thousand enemies outside the house than to have one single enemy inside it.

Lebanese

You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture...

Angela's Ashes

What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It's just a word like house or table or any other word. Only it's a special kind of word. A guy says house and he can point to a house to prove it. But a guy says come on let's fight for liberty and he can't sh...

Johnny Got His Gun

Let's sum up... a little house, white and green or to be made so... with trees, preferably birch and spruce... a window looking seaward... on a hill. That sounds very possible... but there is one other requirement. There must be magic about it, Jane....

Jane of Lantern Hill

Kirk: So, where you heading, man? Hitchhiker: South. Franklin: You work at that place? The slaughter house? Hitchhiker: Uh... no. Sally: How'd you get stuck way out here? Hitchhiker: I was at the slaughter house. Franklin: I got an uncle who works in...

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Wisdom comes through suffering or old age.

Georgia

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

Alan Arkin

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

Anna Held

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Aristotle

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Beverly Sills

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Casey Stengel

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

David Mamet

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Emily Dickinson

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Fay Weldon

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

George Sand

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

George Santayana

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe