Quotes by House I'm pretty good at remaining calm during an emergency. My house burned down when I was 12, which made me really pragmatic about what needed to be done. But I can be bad in that I compartmentalize a lot of emotions and push them away to deal with them at a later date. Anne Hathaway remaining-calm done house If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door. Anne Lamott wife house doors That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house. Anne McCaffrey thrill careers house Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that I could do it! Like that! Like the snap of mortal fingers, I could do it. Burn you as I burnt your little house. And nothing could save you, nothing at all. Anne Rice ashes house hands My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white. Anne Rice flower white house And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing in pans all over, pouring water of pillows, making clocks chime at all hours, mortal will accept almost any "natural explanation" offered, no matter how absurd, rather than the obvious supernatural one, for what is going on. Anne Rice mind house water I am in my own mind. Anne Sexton my-own mind house Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly. Anne Sexton over-you house running At six Anne Sexton childhood dolls house I who was a house full of bowel movement, Anne Sexton god house moving There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house. Anne Tyler peaceful house rain We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about. Anne Tyler teens waiting house We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house. Annie Dillard house play beautiful What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding? Annie Dillard skins house world Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There are all kinds of ways to live. You can take your choice. You can keep a tidy house, and when St. Peter asks you what you did with your life, you can say, I kept a tidy house, I made my own cheese balls. Annie Dillard house writing book I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV. Annie Lennox black-and-white tvs house God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house. Annie Oakley missing house men In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter. Annie Proulx story-writers insightful house As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them. Anselm Kiefer ruins house children When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else. Anselm Kiefer germany eras house «89101112131415161718»