Landlady's Quotes

#1. I like 'Goodbye My Lover' because it's a really personal song and I recorded it in my landlady's bathroom in Los Angeles. She had a piano in there and for me listening back to it, it actually sounds like the voice I hear in my head. It's so close to what I can imagine.

James Blunt

#2. Boarding-House Geometry DEFINITIONS AND AXIOMS All boarding-houses are the same boarding-house. Boarders in the same boarding-house and on the same flat are equal to one another. A single room is that which has no parts and no magnitude. The landlady of a boarding-house is a

Stephen Leacock

#3. To be famous, in fact, one has to kill one's landlady.

Albert Camus

#4. His landlady came to the door, loosely wrapped in dressing gown and shawl; her husband followed ejaculating.

Mary Shelley

#5. It's no longer unusual for real avant-garde composers to have been in a band, and for bands to be interested in a wide range of music. Look at how artists like Aphex Twin are influenced by Nancarrow and Stockhausen.

Jonny Greenwood

#6. I couldn't wait to meet his cherry-popping, cougar pimp landlady again. Said no one ever.

Linda Kage

#7. He was hopelessly in debt to his landlady, and was afraid of meeting her.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. I heard we see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Neil Gaiman

#9. A sense of belonging is not physical. We cant find it by changing where we live or what we do. We have to carry it within us

P.C. Cast

#10. She took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected it with energy.

Elena Ferrante

#11. They all stared at him in mute agreement. Intelligence and kindness in their stares. No one would misbehave.

D.K. Cassidy

#12. I know how to handle women who act like ladies, but my landlady ain't no lady. Sometimes I even wish I was living with my wife again so I could have my own place and not have no landladies.

Langston Hughes

#13. Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

V.S. Pritchett

#14. The pretty landlady was desolate. She would have taken D'Artagnan not only as her husband, but as her God, he was so handsome and had so fierce a mustache. Then

Alexandre Dumas

#15. And I walked into a dark hall
where the landlady stood
execrating and final,
sending me to hell,
waving her fat, sweaty arms
and screaming
screaming for rent
because the world had failed us
both.

Charles Bukowski

#16. Within a year Ivan Dmitritch was completely forgotten in the town, and his books, heaped up by his landlady in a sledge in the shed, were pulled to pieces by boys.

Anton Chekhov

#17. The truth of why I used to listen to Arrested Development on my Walkman was because if I didn't, it would take me 20 minutes to walk to school. If I did, it took me 15. That's the reason I loved it. I just had more of a kick in my step, more of a bounce, so I'd walk quicker.

James Corden

#18. The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.

Stephen Leacock

#19. The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.

Alan Jackson

#20. Public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.

Winifred Holtby

#21. I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

Beverly Cleary

#22. Seated in a car full of women, squashed between his six-foot landlady and Sybil Underwood, having to listen to them talk nonstop all the way to Atlanta and back, was too much for him to bear.

Fannie Flagg

#23. by Baudelaire! things are pretty hot!

Jacques Lacan

#24. To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

Albert Camus

#25. His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband
such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!

Alexandre Dumas

#26. My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

Karl Philipp Moritz

#27. By late autumn the yard would grow thick with fallen leaves, causing the landlady to heave many deep sighs.

Takashi Hiraide

#28. The period-effects model refers to influences specific to particular points in time - effects thought to be unique economic or demographic circumstances to which any observable fluctuations in population growth or decline may be attributed.

Brian A. Hoey

#29. There is also the danger in our culture that because a person is called upon to give public statements and is acclaimed by the establishment, such a person gets to the point of believing that he is the movement.

Ella Baker

#30. It had to be the most surreal, embarrassing, awkward moment of his life, standing petrified in his mother's backyard in front of a broken lawn mower, sporting a woody and discussing sex for sale with the landlady.

Linda Kage

#31. If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life - where a lot of it is managing more than you thought you could manage?

Ellen Galinsky

#32. But the landlady is a fat, ugly, mean, stupid, unwashed, misanthropic, cheap, drunken bag of garbage. And you may have noticed that I very seldom use profanity, so I can't describe her as well as I might.

Edward Albee

#33. Repeatedly Yates went berserk - raging over grievances old and new, hurling furniture at phantoms out of his past. The nurses who lived upstairs complained about the racket to the landlady, an eccentric woman who adored Yates and did nothing.

Blake Bailey

#34. mug before him. 'Here she is,' the landlady turned

Kaye Dobbie

#35. People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.

Thomas Sowell

#36. Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

John Michael Hayes