Apartment Quotes - Page 8

• Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand in place and watch your door. You will just stare. As though rebuffed by it. As though it has done this to you.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Doors, Watches, Needs

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.114, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.

  Cornelia Funke

  Dark, Animal, Night

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• It's made me realize that imperfect is perfectly comfortable to me. Whether it's a city or my apartment, I feel most at home when things are somewhat flawed.

  Hoda Kotb

  Home, Cities, Imperfect

  Hoda Kotb (2011). “Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.

  Tupac Shakur

  Life, Mean, Kids

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• He reached out, opened the glove compartment, and took out a gun. It was a Smith & Wesson .38 five-shot special. It looked a lot like my gun. "I stopped by your apartment this morning and picked this up for you," Ranger said. "I found it in the cookie jar." "Tough guys always keep their gun in the cookie jar." "Name one." "Rockford." Ranger grinned. "I stand corrected.

  Janet Evanovich

  Morning, Gun, Names

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• They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy
  Tell me when do we stop it?
  Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment?
  Is the answer burning Korans so that we can defend Islamics?

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Self, Hip Hop

  Song: Cold Rain, Album: Gutter Rainbows

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• They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. "My Sookie hid a corpse?" "I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun." "Where did you learn that term, Northman?" "I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies.

  Charlaine Harris

  Cute, College, Thinking

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.737, Penguin

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• I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

  Holly Black

  Brother, Bored, Sitting

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• But you hardley even know him"she said."He could be a serial killer" "I did have that thought.I checked the apartment out,but if his got an ice cooler full of arms in it,I havent seen it yet.Anyway he seems pretty since.

  Cassandra Clare

  Ice, Serial Killer, Arms

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Order

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.34, Vintage

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• Just in case, though, I stormed into my apartment, tossed a quick hello to Mr. Wong, then rummaged through my entertainment center to lay out all my exorcism equipment. I kept it in my entertainment center because exorcisms were nothing if not entertaining.

  Darynda Jones

  Exorcism, Entertainment, Hello

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.50, St. Martin's Press

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• A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the family, may not perceive the odour incident to cooking, or hear the noise of culinary operations.

  Isabella Beeton

  House, Cooking, Kitchen

  Isabella Beeton (2000). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged edition”, p.101, OUP Oxford

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• What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.

  Kabir

  Cities, Ends, Found

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• A ghost would crawl up my leg and have sex with me at an apartment a long time ago in Texas. I used to think it was my boyfriend, and one day I woke up and it wasn't. I was freaked out about it, but then I was, like, 'Well, you know what? He's never hurt me and he just gave me some amazing sex, so I have no problem.

  Anna Nicole Smith

  Hurt, Sex, Thinking

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• The dream world of sleep and the dream world of music are not far apart. I often catch glimpses of one as I pass through a door to the other, like encountering a neighbor in the hallway going into the apartment next to one’s own. In the recording studio, I would often lie down to nap and wake up with harmony parts fully formed in my mind, ready to be recorded. I think of music as dreaming in sound.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

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• Worst Month of the Year: February. February has only 28 days in it, which means that if you rent an apartment, you are paying for three full days you don't get. Try to avoid Februarys whenever possible.

  Steven Rubenstein

  Funny, Clever, Smart

  "A very good year, sort of - 1982" by Steve Rubenstein, www.sfgate.com. November 17, 2013.

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• I love Seattle, but I am definitely excited to be in a new place. Growing up there and then living in an apartment in the city for seven years, I just felt stagnant.

  Robin Pecknold

  Growing Up, Excited, Seven

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• The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves.

  Joy Harjo

  Suicidal, Chicago, East

  Joy Harjo, Laura Coltelli (1996). “The spiral of memory: interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.

  Anderson Cooper

  Children, Emotional, Buying

  "Surviving the real estate game". Details Magazine, edition.cnn.com. August 2005.

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• Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency. Every time someone would come to see the apartment, there was the thrill of the date. You want to be presentable, so you clean the place up, make sure it smells good, put on some mood lighting and mellow music.

  Anderson Cooper

  New York, Emotional, Smell

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• In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sweet, Strong, Cat

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• If I were really really ridiculously wealthy, I wouldn’t buy a mansion, just tiny apartments in every city I love.

  Mara Wilson

  Cities, Tiny, Actresses

  Twitter post from Aug 22, 2013

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• I just figured out hustles to get by, like maybe selling my clothes. I wanted to travel around and be broke and live in sketchy apartments.

  Leo Fitzpatrick

  Clothes, Hustle, Selling

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• I am informed that 5,000 cockroaches were used in the filming of Joe's Apartment. That depresses me, but not as much as the news that none of them were harmed during the production.

  Roger Ebert

  Depressing, Cockroaches, News

  Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.206, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I believe that everyone has expertise to sell and that people want to purchase that knowledge in a convenient way. Just as Airbnb made people realize that an extra room in their home or apartment can be a source of income, the new Learning Annex provides a platform for people to monetize their knowledge. It’s an exciting time for online adult education and our new platform is the way to unify an otherwise fragmented market.

  Bill Zanker

  Believe, Home, People

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