Painting Houses Quotes

#1. I know sneakers aren't very French-I should be wearing pointy boots or scary heels-but at least they aren't white. It's true what they say about white sneakers. Only American tourists wear them,big ugly things made for mowing grass or painting houses.

Stephanie Perkins

#2. For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

Kate Walsh

#3. I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.

John Dufresne

#4. But painting houses wasn't unsatisfying work. You had your good karma jobs, your decent clients. It felt pretty good when you drove away on that last day, paid in full, having restored a little color to someone's shit-brown life.

Wally Lamb

#5. I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.

Alexis Denisof

#6. When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle.

Dave Rowntree

#7. Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once.

Madeleine Albright

#8. When I first started painting, I had an interesting nightmare about Cleveland - I dreamed the houses there were encased in this free-floating cage structure. I guess Cleveland was a confining place for me, even though my parents weren't too conservative.

April Gornik

#9. If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

Francis Bacon

#10. I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.

Bobby McFerrin

#11. artist, musician,

John Ortberg

#12. Masochism is a valuable job skill.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

Aaron Eckhart

#14. I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.

Wilson Mizner

#15. That thou seest, that thou beest.

Emma Curtis Hopkins

#16. When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks. Familiarizing yourself in this way with the subject, you will get a better concept of the thing and not a visual and false snapshot.

John French Sloan

#17. And as long as the outcome of any combination of two or more members is itself a member of the group.

Paul Watzlawick