Housekeeping Week 2021 Quotes

#1. The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.

David Finckel

#2. In a country that's in a hurry to make the future, the names attached to the products are an enduring reassurance.

Don DeLillo

#3. You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past.

Immortal Technique

#4. Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.

Helen Keller

#5. Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Without authenticity, we are only a poor imitation of someone else.

Tom Hayes

#7. Let's take some extra time to talk about one: Only the number one can create all numbers with this simple equation, 111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321. One, expressed nine times, multiplied by itself, produces all subsequent numbers progressively and then inversely. Zero is not a number.

Michael Ben Zehabe

#8. What if we feel a yearning to which no breast answers?

Henry David Thoreau

#9. I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.

Raymond Chandler

#10. In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

John Updike

#11. There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms; grin like a dog and run about through the city.

Jan Morris

#12. There was a hysteria in there, certainly, but there was also the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen impossible things in the last twenty-four hours, without ever getting a proper breakfast.

Neil Gaiman

#13. But memory is less disposed to compromise

Albert Camus

#14. The other kids wanted to play Destiny's Child, but I wanted Anita O'Day.

Nellie McKay

#15. From at least the age of six, romantic longing
Sechnsucht
has played an unusually central part of my experience. Such longing is in itself the very reverse of wishful thinking: it is more like thoughtful wishing.

C.S. Lewis