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«The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.»
Author: G. Gordon Liddy
(Politician)
| About:
Press
| Keywords:
attic, his uncle, keep in, uncle, uncles, unfortunate
«Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction.»
Author: Wilford O. Cross
| About:
Conscience,
Conviction
| Keywords:
attic, consciences, junk, litter, littered, littering, litters, sheer
«Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic was full of old, old books . . . In the summers we would go to North Dakota to visit her, and I would get in that attic and read everything in sight. That's when the passion started. I was maybe eight or nine.»
Author: William H. Gass
| Keywords:
attic, Dakota, grandmother, in sight, North, North Dakota, summers, The Passion
«No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic»
«The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess»
«I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| Keywords:
actor, attic, copy, creep, Domesday Book, toys
«I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.»
«Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
appreciating, attic, contented, resigned
«The olive-grove of Academe, / Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird / Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.»
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