Top 37 Quotes About Lofts
#1. One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune.
David Byrne
#2. Lofts are great. But with a home, there is a lot to be said for delineated space. To have the luxury of a little separate work space is huge - and to have the dream-sequence master bath.
Mike D
#3. I'm jealous of that time when you could afford lofts and survive on almost nothing. You can't do that anymore.
Jim Shaw
#4. In addition to public housing, South Williamsburg is home to shabby artists' lofts like mine, apartments of Hasidic Jews, and one extremely tall, high-priced condo.
Jami Attenberg
#5. Who wept at the romance of the streets with their pushcarts full of onions and bad music, who sat in boxes breathing in the darkness under the bridge, and rose up to build harpsichords in their lofts
Allen Ginsberg
#6. We belonged together; there was a dream rightness and magic to it, inarguable; the thought of her flooded every corner of my mind with light and poured brightness into miraculous lofts I hadn't even known were there, vistas that seemed to exist not at all except in relationship to her.
Donna Tartt
#7. I used to build lofts in SoHo back when there was nothing there. I had a stoop on West Broadway between Prince and Spring. My partner and I would sit there, eat dinner, and watch the world go by.
Tim Daly
#8. Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.
Jerry Saltz
#9. I just like artist-driven projects, but for artists themselves: artist spaces, artist mentor programs, and artists buying buildings and making lofts. Doing whatever we can do. Because at the end of the day, I really think that we as a community only have each other.
Mark Bradford
#10. Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.
Jerry Saltz
#11. I have built a city from the books I've read. A good book sings a a timeless music that is heard in the choir lofts, and balconies, and theaters that thrived within that secret city inside me.
Pat Conroy
#12. There are a lot of historical lofts in Houston, and it's amazing for me that a lot of them were built in the 1920s. I love the exposed bricks and the very industrial stuff.
Solange Knowles
#13. Lofts were never supposed to be homes. They were vacant old factories and warehouses, taken over by artists looking for cheap space and good light.
Virginia Postrel
#14. Loft living is the antithesis of suburban domesticity, if only because the open spaces don't easily accommodate family life. Lofts also offer residents the opportunity - and responsibility - to structure their own space to reflect what's important to them.
Virginia Postrel
#15. Soap Actors are fun and interesting. They all have something special that you want to be around.
Austin Peck
#16. Better, I thought, never to have been born than this; brought out of nothingness, to labour and strive and back into nothingness again; a bit of fungus on the surface of a splinter of a dying star.
Norah Lofts
#18. Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.
Christopher Pike
#19. Ben was it. Her perfect fit - her thrill and balance and heartbeat. (Preeya)
Rissa Brahm
#20. Perhaps I am the only person who, asked whether she were a witch or not, could truthfully say, "I do not know. I do know some very strange things have happened to me, or through me."
Lady Alice Rowhedge
Norah Lofts
#21. [ ... ] while I felt that the Marxist attitude towards their theory was not at all admirable but was typically dogmatic and had all these properties which the Marxists usually said were characteristic of the churches. So I realized fairly early that Marxism was more of a church than of a science.
Karl Popper
#22. Only people of low birth pressed questions likely to embarrass.
Norah Lofts
#23. Dig, gentlemen, dig, but not deeper than six inches, for there is more gold in the first six inches than there is lower down'.
Graeme Lofts
#25. Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.
Glen Cook
#26. He hadn't wanted to go through life heartsick for something he could not have.
Norah Lofts
#27. Alongside the practical thought something else struggled and, like an escaped butterfly, took wing: the assurance of something wonderful awaiting her. Just around the corner ...
Norah Lofts
#28. Breakthroughs happen when the insight comes that I can do something right now to improve things. I am constantly looking to do something to provide people with strategies to create those immediate breakthroughs. That's my mission.
Tony Robbins
#29. Smolin's idea, expounded in The Life of the Cosmos, hinges
Richard Dawkins
#30. He has shamed me, and he'll kill me, but he shan't humble me.
Norah Lofts
#31. Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race.
Robert A. Heinlein
#33. I think 'Spider-man' is a pop culture rock show that was meant to be in arenas.
Michael Cohl
#34. heat radiating off of his skin, coming
Yaa Gyasi
#35. They set off through the soft lingering light. One cuckoo in the depths of Layer Wood and one in the dense shrubbery of the Dower House were keeping up their eternal question and answer, and in the comparative coolness which had come with the evening all the scents of summer had magnified.
Norah Lofts
#36. Simple people always reduce everything to their own simple measure.
Norah Lofts
#37. The tiny match we've been fooling with just set off an explosion.
Veronica Larsen
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