Apartment Quotes - Page 18

• I was about to move out of my apartment because I was so broke. I'd sort of made a pact with myself that I wouldn't take a job unless it was interesting to me, and I became broke very fast.

  Michael Pitt

  Jobs, Moving, Interesting

  Interview With Martin Scorsese, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 17, 2010.

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• In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that match, he found he no longer had an apartment in Moscow.

  Liz Garbus

  Stars, Home, Moscow

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I hate living in a really small apartment, living in a shoebox, not being able to play the drums, not having space. It sucks.

  Mac DeMarco

  Hate, Play, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics

  Henry Rollins

  Writing, Used, Roof

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• The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up someair in a spacious apartment, and warms that.... Thus he goes a step or two beyond instinct, and saves a little time for the fine arts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Men, Animal

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.152, Graphic Arts Books

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• Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Thoughtful, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1169, Delphi Classics

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• There will be natural propriety in using an eastern light for bedrooms and libraries, a western light in winter for baths and winter apartments, and a northern light for picture galleries and other places in which a steady light is needed; for that quarter of the sky grows neither light nor dark with the course of the sun, but remains steady and unshifting all day long.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Dark, Winter, Light

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter II, Section 7,

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• Suppose you were a real estate investor with a 1/3 interest in the best apartment complex in town, the best mall, and the best office building. Would you feel like a poor, undiversified investor? No! But as soon as you get into stocks, people feel this way. Partly, people need to justify their fees.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, Office, People

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• She walked quickly around her one-room apartment. After more than four years in this one home she knew all its possibilities, how it could put on a sham appearance of warmth and welcome when she needed a place to hide in, how it stood over her in the night when she woke suddenly, how it could relax itself into a disagreeable unmade, badly-put-together state, mornings like this, anxious to drive her out and go back to sleep.

  Shirley Jackson

  Morning, Women, Home

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.106, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially as he that does so will be likely to incur more scorn and obloquy for the mud and water into which he has ventured to plunge, than thanks for the jewel he procures; as like in manner, she who undertakes the cleansing of a careless bachelor's apartment will be liable to more abuse for the dust she raises than commendation for the clearance she effects.

  Anne Bronte

  Dust, Jewels, Water

  Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte (2014). “The Complete Novels Of The Bronte Sisters: Seven-Book Bundle”, p.243, Harper Collins

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• Nobody should be hitting lotto for 36 million dollars when we got people starving in the streets. That is not idealistic, that's just real. That is just stupid. There's no way Michael Jackson, or whoever should have thousands, millions, billions of dollars and we got people broke with two-three jobs and still can't pay bills on time. There's no way! No way these people should have planes when people don't have houses, apartments, shacks, drawers, pants!!!

  Tupac Shakur

  Jobs, Real, Stupid

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• Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.

  John Ritter

  Gay, Two, People

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• Sellers in general maintain the quality of their products and services for fear of losing customers otherwise. But, when price controls create a situation where the amount demanded is greater than the amount supplied - a shortage - fear of losing customers is no longer as strong an incentive. For example, landlords typically reduce painting and repairs when there is rent control, because there is no need to fear vacancies when there are more tenants looking for apartments than there are apartments available.

  Thomas Sowell

  Strong, Quality, Example

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• If finding an apartment is like falling in love, buying one is like proposing on your first date and agreeing not to see each other until the wedding.

  David Sedaris

  Falling In Love, Buying, Firsts

  "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". Book by David Sedaris, June 1, 2004.

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• My grandmothers apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.

  Arnon Goldfinger

  Children, Grandmother, World

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• [T]rue socialism must be voluntary - not coerced. Even in the most complete system of society we can conceive the individual must still have rights and property. He must appropriate food to sustain his life. He must wear clothes which are his. He must have his private and exclusive apartment, and must have the right to be in some place on God's earth from which he cannot be evicted by landlord of society.

  Joshua K. Ingalls

  Rights, Clothes, Earth

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• You think you're grown in college but you're not, because everything is kind of controlled. You lose the camaraderie and suddenly find yourself alone in an apartment just feeling lost.

  Chris Bosh

  Thinking, College, Feelings

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• I was born in 1953, in Paris. But soon after my birth my family (I have one sister) moved into a rent apartment in suburbs of Paris named Romainville. That time my parents were freshly married and it was extremely hard to find an apartment in Paris for a young married couple. To say they found a flat in a blocks of houses which was built after the second World War - and this is the place where I spent my childhood.

  Richard Clayderman

  Couple, Block, War

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• [Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.

  Lionel Shriver

  Children, Book, Writing

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• When I got out of high school I hit the road. I lived like a gypsy. Those were the best times of my life. I was living from club to club not knowing where my next meal was coming from. No credit cards, no apartment, no bills, no managers, just on the road with a truck and five guys.

  Rex Smith

  School, Knowing, Guy

  "New Again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2015.

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• I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Thinking, My Own, Enjoyed

  "Character Finds A Path Out Of Her Personal Prison In 'Eileen'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. August 15, 2015.

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• There was one time they knocked me out and laid me in front of my mother's door. And in order for my mother not to be shocked they readjusted my clothes and they saw that nothing was rumpled and I looked very comfortable next to the apartment door, so when my mother would open the door it wouldn't be that much of a shock.

  Jack Kirby

  Mother, Doors, Order

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• I started designing my handbags in my apartment and I had six samples made in satin-finished nylon. I displayed them at trade shows but they went unnoticed at first.

  Kate Spade

  Design, Firsts, Six

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• I like cottage cheese. That's why I want to try other dwelling cheeses, too. How about studio apartment cheese? Tent cheese? Mobile home cheese? Do not eat mobile home cheese in a tornado.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• I went to the Home Depot, which was unnecessary. I need to go to the Apartment Depot. Which is just a big warehouse with a whole lot of people standing around saying "We don't have to fix anything."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Home, Humor

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