Quotes About The Landlady

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Kaye Dobbie

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Takashi Hiraide

#10. I am big believer in breastfeeding. My oldest was breastfed for 9 months, my second for 6 months and I will try to nurse Kayla for 6 months. At the end of the day, it's a big sacrifice but you have healthier kids.

Deborah Cox

#11. Thank you so very much for making my legs shake the way you do.

Gail McHugh

#12. 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

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

Albert Camus

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

Mary Shelley

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

Linda Kage

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Neil Gaiman

#18. What on earth did I ask him to tea for! he said to himself, as he went to the pantry.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#19. 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

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

V.S. Pritchett

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.

Jonathan Carroll

#24. Goodbye. Thanks for your help ... I ... I'll miss you. -Rose to Mason

Richelle Mead

#25. (Another writer once asked me why I wrote about "nebbishes." I told him I wanted to write about "the common man.") Sometimes I even

Peter Straub

#26. You cannot serve God and d money. [6]

Anonymous

#27. I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.

James A. Baldwin

#28. He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.

Obert Skye

#29. When I recognize I've got anger, then I realize it's because I have a need that's not being met.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#30. 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

#31. So what happened?" Mom asks; there's a tone of resignation, the sound of a parent who has tried really hard for a long time and realizes that the end of the tunnel doesn't have a light so much as a black hole.

Mindy McGinnis

#32. 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

#33. 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

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

Albert Camus

#35. 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

#36. Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
[Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede poena claudo.]

Horace

#37. Just because someone you loved dies, doesn't mean that your world ends as well.

Kimberly Lauren

#38. I'm always scared to death that I won't do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator.

Hilary Swank