Rooftops Quotes - Page 2

• It's understandable why a minority that was treated as badly as blacks in this country have been for so long would, when they finally found themselves on top, brag about it and want to shout from the rooftops.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Long, Want

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• All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  America, United States, Sparrows

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• I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough. I know that I, personally, lost respect for writers who, when there was a downturn in the market, started shouting from the rooftops that they wrote thrillers and suspense novels rather than horror. As far as I'm concerned, those wussboys should sever all ties with the horror community if that's the way they feel and get out of the way so real horror writers can do their work.

  Bentley Little

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

  "Bentley Little: The Elusive Dark Scribe Speaks". Interview with Vince A. Liaguno, www.darkscribemagazine.com. September 13, 2007.

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• I miss that time. The cities back then, just after the forests died, were full of wonders, and you'd stumble on them--these princes of the air on common rooftops--the rivers that burst through the city streets so they ran like canals--the rabbits in parking garages--the deer foaling, nestled in Dumpsters like a Nativity.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Air, Cities, Rivers

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• When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats.

  Charlie Melancon

  People, Water, Republican

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• The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

  Philip Roth

  Work, Writing, Sisterhood

  1979 In the NewYorkTimes Book Review,15 Jul.

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• Lord Nicholas St. John was their only hope, and she had been on the roof when he arrived, for heaven's sake. Ladies did not go traipsing about on rooftops. And certainly gentlemen did not frequent the homes of those ladies who did traipse about on roortops. It did not matter if the rooftop in question was in dire need of repair. Or that the lady in question had no choice.

  Sarah MacLean

  Home, Choices, Heaven

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• New York is great for people watching and there's a bunch of amazing rooftops.

  Jamie Bell

  New York, People, Bunch

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• As a child I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room - the dry twigs, leaves and lizard-like creatures crawling about, the servant chopping firewood and, of course, and number of crows in various postures on the rooftops of the buildings opposite.

  R. K. Laxman

  Children, Eye, Opposites

  R. K. Laxman (1998). “The tunnel of time: an autobiography”, Viking Pr

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• I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope fellow sufferers will know it's completely controllable. I hope I can help remove any stigma attached to it, and that those who don't have it under control will seek help with all that is available to treat it.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Issues, Bipolar, Likes

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• There were days when no kid came out of his house without looking around. The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous, the light pitched, the sky smashed against the rooftops.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Halloween, Kids, Light

  Jonathan Lethem (2004). “The Fortress of Solitude”, p.46, Vintage

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• When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?

  Kiran Desai

  Father, Crow, Helping

  FaceBook post by Kiran Desai from Jun 16, 2014

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• In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of posterity.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Waiting, Analysis

  Arturo Schwarz, Marcel Duchamp (1997). “The complete works of Marcel Duchamp”, Delano Greenridge Editions

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• Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where they reflect at length upon their quirky electronic childhoods and sometimes kiss each other on the lips and neck.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Party, Gay, Kissing

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Absurdistan”, p.41, Granta Books

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• I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Writing, Hell

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your food can be grown! Window sill, fire escape and rooftop gardens have the same potential to provide impressive harvests as backyard gardens, greenhouses and community spaces.

  Greg Peterson

  Garden, Thinking, Space

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• When you were sleeping on the sofa I put my ear to your ear and listened to the echo of your dreams. That is the ocean I want to dive in, merge with the bright fish, plankton and pirate ships. I walk up to people on the street that kind of look like you and ask them the questions I would ask you. Can we sit on a rooftop and watch stars dissolve into smoke rising from a chimney? Can I swing like Tarzan in the jungle of your breathing? I don’t wish I was in your arms, I just wish I was peddling a bicycle toward your arms.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Dream, Stars, Ocean

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• Sundown had bloodied the horizon over the uneven rooftops of South Boston. Birds were perched on every roof and seemed to be watching the girl walking slowly below. - Cradle and All

  James Patterson

  Girl, Boston, Bird

  James Patterson (2000). “Cradle and all:h[large text]: a novel”

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• The best motivation for anyone-including employees-is to hear or see our name as often and in as many places as possible. Our name is the most potent sound we can hear and see. If you want to motivate someone put their name up in lights and/or sing it from the rooftops!

  Vicki Donlan

  Happy, Motivation, Light

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• This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.

  Pope John Paul II

  Order, Challenges, Routine

  Pope John Paul II (2003). “Go in Peace: A Gift of Enduring Love”, p.47, Loyola Press

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• Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. I’m afraid. More afraid than you’d ever believe.’ And he’d take her hand and they’d fly across the rooftops and up into space and sit on some planet and watch a double sunrise or maybe a star being born or some other event that no human had ever seen, her head on his shoulder, his arm around her. And she’d tell him everything.

  Jenny Downham

  Stars, Believe, Hands

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• Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red rooftops and trees of cauliflower and columbine, shaped like rockets and explosions, all those people below us, with humbler views; we see the Bay Bridge, clunkety, the Richmond Bridge, straight, low, the Golden Gate, red toothpicks and string, the blue between, the blue above, the gleaming white Land of the Lost/Superman's North Pole Getaway magic crystals that are San Francisco.

  Dave Eggers

  Blue, Views, Oakland

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• They seem to be getting it together. How much damage will the picture of people spending four or five days on rooftops do That depends on how well it goes from here on out.

  James Carville

  People, Together, Four

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• I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over rooftops in the distance on the other side of the river. I've seen it in photographs a thousand times, but seeing it in person for the first time that reminds me that I'm really, truly here, thousands of miles away, across an ocean from home.

  Kristin Harmel

  Distance, Ocean, Home

  Kristin Harmel (2012). “The Sweetness of Forgetting”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here, on this rooftop, the palace of the sons of Atreus, resting on my arms, just like a dog. I've come to know the night sky, every star, the powers we see glittering in the sky, bringing winter and summer to us all, as the constellations rise and sink.

  Aeschylus

  Summer, Dog, Jobs

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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