Apartment Quotes - Page 3

• I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, People

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• It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.

  Larry David

  Cousin, Growing Up, Aunt

  "Angry Middle-Aged Man" by James Kaplan, www.newyorker.com. January 19, 2004.

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• People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

  Fran Drescher

  School, Kids, Years

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• I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Book, Knitting, Littles

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• Percy imagined what that would be like: getting an apartment in this tiny replica of Rome, protected by the legion and Terminus the OCD border god. He imagined holding hands with Annabeth at a cafe. Maybe when they were older, watching their own kid chase seagulls across the forum.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Rome, Hands

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• Redd Towers Apartments, whose advertising slogan, 'If you lived here, you'd be home by now,' did little to fill vacancies.

  Frank Beddor

  Home, Towers, Vacancy

  Frank Beddor (2006). “The Looking Glass Wars”, Dial Books for Young Readers

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• I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.

  Craig Kilborn

  Lifestyle, Studios, Extravagant

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• The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.

  Ted Rall

  Bars, Pieces, Walks

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• I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.

  Nicholson Baker

  Want

  Nicholson Baker (1996). “The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber”, Vintage

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• I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Monday, Morning, Being Alone

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• Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Sick, Chic, Disgusting

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• It just seemed too weird to me. I don't know, maybe they were smoking a joint in the car downstairs from their parents' apartment. I had to go that far to put together a scenario of how they could have possibly recognized me.

  Marc Jacobs

  Car, Smoking, Parent

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• Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.

  Liv Tyler

  Girl, Mom, Stars

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• I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

  Jock Sturges

  Denial, Found, Sentences

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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• I can pay my rent now. I guess I could always do that, but now I can get an apartment with heat.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Pay, Heat, I Can

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• I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

  Adriana Lima

  Inspirational, Teenager, Independent

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• I'm the biggest slob in the world. My apartment is a mess.

  Monica Keena

  World, Mess

  "Style & Substance: Monica Keena". Interview with Farrah Weinstein, nypost.com. September 17, 2000.

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• About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.

  Klaus Kinski

  Wall, Doors, Hands

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• My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.

  Jeffrey Jones

  Son, House, Support

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• The government only makes restrictive rules, they dont show you what to do so you know, OK, heres where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.

  Harry Seidler

  Government, Space, Needs

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• My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

  Steven Wright

  Elephants, Pet, Comedy

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• My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.

  Ben Stiller

  New Year, Party, Years

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• They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.

  Johnny Vegas

  Las Vegas, Dreamer, Looks

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• In fact, I had previously helped train one of the FBI agents who searched my apartment.

  Steven Hatfill

  Fbi Agents, Facts, Train

  Hatfill's Statement, www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

  John Updike

  Space, Religion, Stories

  John Updike (2009). “More Matter: Essays and Criticism”, p.185, Random House

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