Verandah Quotes

#1. A bush-warbler,
Coming to the verandah-edge,
Left its droppings
On the rice-cakes.

Matsuo Basho

#2. Dirt music, Fox tells Georgie, is anything you can play on a verandah or porch, without electricity.

Tim Winton

#3. Moominpappa was busy on the verandah, making punch in a barrel. He put in almonds and raisins, lotus juice, ginger, sugar and nutmeg flowers, one or two lemons, and a couple of pints of strawberry liqueur to make it specially good.

Tove Jansson

#4. I walk down the steps of the verandah towards her and with shaking hands she holds my face between them, sobbing, Look at my beautiful girl.

Melina Marchetta

#5. The house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah ...

John Geddes

#6. Made a sketch later on the cabin verandah, but it was impossible to keep up with the changes. Oh the difficulties of mountain art for too little genius.

J. E. H. MacDonald

#7. The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

Stephen Gardiner

#8. Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.

Flula Borg

#9. It was smashing working with Jerry Desmonde, he was a very nice chap.

Norman Wisdom

#10. And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

Sam Donaldson

#11. I need to spend time with God even when I do not know what to pray.

Andrew Murray

#12. So many young pets burn out in Hollywood, it's crazy.

Jason Gann

#13. Why must you look like the rest of us? Why do you have to be the one to change? Change the way we see. Don't change the way you are.

Tahereh Mafi

#14. Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why.

Chris Hardwick

#15. I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.

Alex Ferguson

#16. I knew I had been lonely, Mem, yet I had no understanding of my desolation until my skin was finally touched.

Peter Carey

#17. If you don't tell people your plans they can't follow along." "They don't follow along anyway," Tyler said. "Most of them do their level best to piss in your well just to piss in your well.

John Ringo