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What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste? -- John Milton
The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring. -- Thomas Gray
The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long. -- John Milton
And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.' -- Clement of Alexandria
The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace. -- Ezra Pound
I really enjoyed working on the 2009 film, 'Aliens in the Attic,' because it was shot in New Zealand and I got to visit there for the first time. -- Kevin Nealon
I've read Flowers in the Attic and The Other Side of Midnight and Go Ask Alice and I don't want to read any more books where the girl dies in the end. -- Rebecca Godfrey
Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity. -- Rita Mae Brown
American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends. -- Rob Sheffield
'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends. -- Rob Sheffield
A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game. -- Graham Nelson
The leaves of these [larch] trees are like those of the pine; timber from them comes in long lengths, is as easily wrought in joiner's work as is the clearwood of fir, and contains a liquid resin, of the color of Attic honey, which is good for consumptives . -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic. -- Sherman Alexie
Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home. -- Rick Scott
The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas. -- Geoff Mulgan
You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them. -- Joe Dante
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things. -- G. Gordon Liddy
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. -- Peter Ustinov
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. -- James Thurber
You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you! -- Alex Trebek
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
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. -- Laurence Olivier
An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life. -- Sting
You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic. -- John Oates
A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning. -- Paul Muni
Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale. -- Ernest Lawrence
Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change. -- Erin Gruwell
I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself. -- Ken Livingstone
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old values and culture. My grandparents had been reasonably well-off but they became quite poor, living in an attic apartment. -- Lisel Mueller
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. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story. -- Alice Morse Earle
My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home. -- Michel Gondry
I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass! -- Meshell Ndegeocello
I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner. -- Ann Hood
American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic. -- Helen Thomas
Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic. -- Terry Pratchett
I do have a trophy room-it's in my attic, in boxes. -- Troy Polamalu
A clean basement, garage and attic are signs of an empty life. -- Doug Larson
Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open. -- Henry James
I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack. -- Malorie Blackman
No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic. -- Ann Landers
We lived in the attic, Christopher, Cory, Carrie, and me, Now there are only three. -- Virginia C. Andrews
If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic. -- Anthony Liccione
Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic. -- Stephen King
I'm back in the old attic again, writing to relieve my pains.Pen and Paper keeps me sane. -- CHARMAINE FORDE
My first crush was this kid in kindergarten who told me he had tigers in his attic as well. -- Kendall Jenner
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer -- Peter Ustinov
Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen. -- Alberto Manguel
I cleaned the attic with the wife the other day. Now I can't get the cobwebs out of her hair. -- Tommy Cooper
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic. -- James Broughton
Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken seriously. -- Barry Nelson
I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic--I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God. -- Martin Buber
At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore. -- Erica Jong
So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out. -- John Steinbeck
If I'm stuck, I get up from my chair and I wash windows. Or... clean the bathroom. Or vacuum the attic. There's always something to be done. -- David Sedaris
My grandmother was a psychiatrist and possibly the ultimate of all skeptics. But even she couldn't explain the strange noises we so often heard in the attic. -- Jennifer McMahon
What's thinking? You live in a grandly appointed house, but spend all your time rummaging around in the attic for any little trinket you hadn't known was there. -- James Richardson
What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acceptable to oneself. -- Stanley Kauffmann
Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic. -- Bette Davis
When I was little, I would always lie about the stupidest things. In kindergarten or first grade, I would tell people I had tigers living in my attic and a room full of gold. -- Kendall Jenner
My attic is the size of a can of cat food, only filled with more meows and not as tasty. So you see, I have nowhere to store all my love but in your heart. -- Jarod Kintz

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