Walkups Quotes

#1. I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York.

Bob Dylan

#2. I've not ceased being fearful, I've gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you go too far.

Erica Jong

#3. What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#4. Platitudes or otherwise, there were no words to ease the agony of living.

Catherine Cookson

#5. Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

Alan Arkin

#6. In appearance Sachish gives the impression of a celestial being. His eyes glow; his long, slender fingers are like tongues of flame; the colour of his skin is more a luminescence than a colour. As soon as I set eyes on him I seemed to glimpse his inner self; and from that moment I loved him.

Rabindranath Tagore

#7. Praising yourself doesn't have to be a bad thing. Don't be arrogant, but don't be afraid to say you've done a good job.

C.M. Stunich

#8. There it is, darlin',"He said softly, his lips curling slowly in a sexy grin. "Nothin'like seein' a pretty girl gettin' all fired up.

Madeline Sheehan

#9. It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

Paul McCartney

#10. Eleanor Roosevelt started off almost every early article she wrote, starting with, "My mother was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen." And I think her life was a constant and continual and lifelong contrast with her mother.

Blanche Wiesen Cook

#11. At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached.

Anna Kavan

#12. Visually, I love the setting of suburbia.

Gia Coppola

#13. People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.

David Brooks

#14. Waking love suffereth no sleepe:
Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke:
Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.

Edmund Spenser

#15. I see you are - "
"Dumbledore's man through and through," said Harry. "That's right.

J.K. Rowling