Tiles Quotes

• A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

  Victor Hugo

  Friendship, Home, Years

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• One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Feet, Fake, Focus

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Neath tile or thatch That man is rich Who has a scratch For every itch.

  Ogden Nash

  Men, Scratches, Rich

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• You can't climb a tile wall.

  Bill Engvall

  Wall, Climbs

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• I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Wind, Long

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I had to pick one artist to tile my bathroom I would go with MC Escher.

  Demetri Martin

  Artist, Bathroom, Escher

  Twitter post from Jan 10, 2013

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• Who in their right mind counts the tiles on the floor when they go visiting a neighbor?

  Tom Upton

  Mind, Neighbor, Visiting

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• Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new emotions - and applying them like so many polished tiles to what would someday be the marvellously finished pavilion of the self.

  John Banville

  New Experiences, Self, Childhood

  FaceBook post by John Banville from Oct 15, 2016

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• I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you.

  Thia Megia

  Wall, Mean, Voice

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• We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

  Pablo Neruda

  Past, Doors, Broken

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.247, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.

  Joan Miro

  Mean, Tree, Branches

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• The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3).

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Light, Broken, Kitchen

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.3, Grove Press

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• Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fall, Men, Leprosy

  Bertolt Brecht (1965). “The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays”, p.99, Grove Press

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• I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.

  Sandra Bullock

  Toilets, Rings, Wiring

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• There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered his pockets for a pen or pencil. He had an answer to the question. But he had nothing to write with, not even a burnt match. So he left the question unanswered, but here is what he would have written, if he had found anything to write with: To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Eye, Pockets

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• You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Rip, Moving, Home

  "Barbara Corcoran: From 4th floor walkup to TODAY". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. June 28, 2011.

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• I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis lazuli, to sapphires and aquamarines; to cobalt skies and blue-black seas; Moslem tiles - and to a blue flower whether or not it has any other merit.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Flower, Blue, Color

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• This is what I have heard at last the wind in December lashing the old trees with rain unseen rain racing along the tiles under the moon wind rising and falling wind with many clouds trees in the night wind.

  W. S. Merwin

  Rain, Fall, Moon

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• Your wallet will be stolen, you'll get fat, slip on the bathroom tiles of a foreign hotel and crack your hip.

  Ellen Bass

  Cracks, Hips, Bathroom

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Lying, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what's behind you--the shower curtain, the tile, the wallpaper, whatever's there.

  Gary Lutz

  Mother, Mean, Mirrors

  Gary Lutz (2002). “Stories in the Worst Way”, 3rd Bed Books

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• Fine, dandy, she thought. Then lose the shirt, peel off those leather pants, and lie down on my tile. We'll take turns being on the bottom.

  J.R. Ward

  Lying, Leather Pants, Shirts

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.758, Penguin

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• As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf.

  Boris Pasternak

  Wall, Shadow, Scarves

  Roger Martin du Gard, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Gabriela Mistral (1971). “Roger Martin du Gard: Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak”

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• My drummer right now, who was also the first drummer in Weeping Tile, Jon McCann, told me that [Hip drummer] Johnny Fay took drum lessons from [McCann's] dad, who taught a lot of the drummers in Kingston. He said that when he was in Grade 9, the Hip were the model; the goal was to get an agent and gig as much as possible.

  Sarah Harmer

  Dad, Goal, Agents

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Cookie dropped her purse and tried to catch it midair. In the process, she knocked over a vase. When she lunged for the vase, she slipped on the tile and overturned an entire table. A lovely handblown piece of glass flew in my direction, and all I could think as I caught it was, Really? Again? We were going to have to practice muscle control.

  Darynda Jones

  Thinking, Glasses, Practice

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.176, Macmillan

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