Roof Quotes - Page 12

• Were I
  as quiet as thunder,
  how I'd wail and whine!
  One groan of mine
  would start the world's crumbling cloister shivering.
  And if
  I'd end up by roaring
  with all of its power of lungs and more -
  the comets, distressed, would wring their hands
  and from the sky's roof
  leap in a fever.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Hands, Sky, Roaring

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (1985). “Селестед Воркс ин Тхрее Волумес: Селестед версе”

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• I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me.

  John Green

  Umbrella

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• Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father--who had to say so--told me I was good. At anything. It was a turning point in my life. I went to bed thinking about acting. I woke up thinking about acting. It was like the roof had come off my life!

  Jane Fonda

  Father, Real, Thinking

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• And luck? I've always said about Dizzy Dean that if the roof fell in and Diz was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried in the debris and a gumdrop would drop into his mouth.

  Leo Durocher

  Fall, Luck, Would Be

  "Nice Guys Finish Last".

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• The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Anime, Stories, Hats

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• On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden entrance into collar and shopping bag. The quiet rain that can rust a tin roof without the tin roof making a sound in protest. The shamanic rain that feeds the imagination. The rain that seems actually a secret language, whispering, like the ecstasy of primitives, of the essence of things.

  Tom Robbins

  Rain, Fall, Essence

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• It's been three years since I last performed here so I'm dying to tear the roof off Wembley Arena with some old school joints and brand new bangers. When I'm done, you're gonna remember it for a long time to come.

  Busta Rhymes

  School, Years, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge of the roof, then it's got to mean something. You've got to know why you're doing it; it's got to be for a reason within the story, and to further the story.

  Roger Deakins

  Movie, Moving, Mean

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• I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Dad, Racing, Together

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at it, and searchlights feeling their way across the sky like antennae, and the earth shaking snort of the bombs and the whimper of shrapnel pieces when they come down to patter on the roof.

  John Dos Passos

  Song, Gun, Sky

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River,
  And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China;
  Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells
  On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom;
  A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud;
  The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain;
  And now, when the heavens are propitious for action,
  Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Rain, Past

  Wang Wei, “Looking Down In A Spring-Rain”

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• Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

  Derek Walcott

  Art, Church, Village

  Derek Walcott, “From 'Omeros'”

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• A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense of being always rested in His providential care and guidance.

  Horace Bushnell

  Friendship, Home, House

  Horace Bushnell (1861). “Christian Nurture”, p.398

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• We saw the children and the women with their babies and then I heard the poouff — the flame had broken through the thatched roof and there was a yellow- brown smoke column going up into the air. It didn't hit me all that much then, but when I think of it now — I slaughtered those people. I murdered them.

  John Keegan

  Baby, Children, Thinking

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• I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable.

  Jon Hamm

  Rain, Rabbits, Roommate

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• I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.

  Donald Knuth

  Expression, Definitions, Unix

  "Digital Typography". Book by Donald Knuth, 1999.

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• Every lover is a storm chaser.
  Every good heart has lost its roof.

  Andrea Gibson

  Heart, Storm, Lovers

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• Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady routes carved through the undergrowth. Roofs will become mountain tops. People will become ants.

  Tom Turner

  Opportunity, Cities, People

  Tom Turner (2014). “City as Landscape: A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning”, p.98, Taylor & Francis

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• Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps.

  David Walker

  Tourism, Tourists, Bars

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• This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.

  Melissa Auf der Maur

  Blood, Earth, Flesh

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• How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Blue, Sky, Humanity

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• The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

  John Milton

  Running, Lying, Cells

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.368

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• People in New York love having roof parties.

  Todd Barry

  New York, Party, People

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• UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Nature, Horse

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2534, Delphi Classics

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• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  Ed Miliband

  School, Years, Shining

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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