Quotes About Attics

#1. Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.

Julia Cameron

#2. We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.

Shirley Abbott

#3. If attics could make wishes, this one would have nothing to wish for.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#4. The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

Henry Ford

#5. I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young. They're still princesses.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#6. We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

Amory Lovins

#7. In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti.

James Thurber

#8. Fans write to us via our publisher and more than ever via the Internet, blogs and fan sites, and good writers should be actively seeking out that interaction. Gone are the days when writers are dead or hidden away in dusty attics; nowadays, you've got to get out there.

Chris Riddell

#9. In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles De Lint

#10. The attics of the mind hold onto their dusty secrets and free them at inappropriate moments.

Judy Croome

#11. The most beautiful rooms I have entered have been empty ones. Warehouses full of light and dust. Empty attics with a view. Coastlines. Prairies.

Yann Martel

#12. Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven years without cease on a problem that has eluded the greatest mathematical minds since first proposed in 1637.

Charles Krauthammer

#13. I like attics. They're as peaceful as God's church. Alone and apart, but a body can hear everything. The past stacked up like forgotten memories, but with a small effort, brought down and enjoyed again.

Kim Harrison

#14. (A) trip to the attic is an excursion into history, and ... all over the world the present unravels beneath the stored detritus of the past; that's what attics are for.

Valerie Martin

#15. I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with friends, lovers, children and heros; perceived, remembered, imagined, distorted and clarified.

Tom Robbins

#16. Miss Redmond is aging, and will never marry, and will die smelling of attics.

Morrissey

#17. I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

Andrew Wyeth

#18. I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.

C.S. Lewis

#19. And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps

Thom Yorke

#20. Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.

Sylvia Plath

#21. Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.

Leonard Cohen

#22. Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and dying as on a battlefield.

Muriel Spark

#23. I don't conquer, I submit.

Giacomo Casanova

#24. If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.

Jim Rohn

#25. I don't know, you go through what you go through. You handle adversity, and I think it made me hungrier.

Rajon Rondo

#26. We lived in the attic, Christopher, Cory, Carrie, and me, Now there are only three.

Virginia C. Andrews

#27. Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open.

Henry James

#28. I'm a complete and utter busker.

Bryan Adams

#29. I am in love with someone who's afraid of the future. And like a fool, I keep bringing it up.

David Levithan

#30. It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.

Sarah Dessen

#31. My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

Thomas Jane