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No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic. -- Ann Landers
Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing. -- Julia Cameron
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. -- James Thurber
Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering? -- Arnold Wesker
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
I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me. -- Andrew Wyeth
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
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
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
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
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman. -- Sinclair Lewis
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
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
People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it. -- Harlan Ellison
A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT. -- Meg Cabot
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 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
It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine.' Yet, I hesitate to name our story that. For I think of us more as flowers in the attic. -- Virginia C. Andrews
Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached. -- Leonard Cohen
I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with friends, lovers, children and heros; perceived, remembered, imagined, distorted and clarified. -- Tom Robbins
In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle. -- Charles de Lint
Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing. -- Sylvia Plath
And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps -- Thom Yorke
The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures. -- Henry Ford
We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska. -- Amory Lovins
I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young. They're still princesses. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett

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