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In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature. -- George Murray
Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was. -- Charles Dickens
Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was. -- Charles Dickens
Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution. -- Caroline Knapp
Taxi drivers are the ones who pay me the most attention. They seem to be into River Cottage and have a dream of moving to the country, so I have chats with them. -- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy. -- Benjamin Disraeli
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. -- Friedrich Schiller
I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts. -- Lord Chesterfield
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake. -- Walter Scott
Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage. -- Thomas Kincade
I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners. -- Wilbur Ross
We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country. -- Fergus Henderson
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces. -- William Shakespeare
The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home. -- Bruce Springsteen
In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man. -- Terry Pratchett
It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way. -- Richard Rogers
I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf! -- Karlie Kloss
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. -- Laurence Sterne
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet. -- Anne Stevenson
I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be. -- Thomas Dolby
I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there it's a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to an empty beach, where I collect hag stones and run around with the dog. I'm a keen walker, and I love Suffolk's big skies. -- Diana Quick
I don't like anything that looks gelatinous - really weirds me out. But when I was a kid, I used to get very, very upset if anything had a kind of chalky texture; like, certain kinds of cottage cheese I know have a weird chalkiness. -- Roz Chast
I first saw the island of Noirmoutier when I was two weeks old. I think it's probably safe to say that I didn't fully appreciate it at the time; but I grew to love it as year after year I spent holidays there at my grandparents' cottage. -- Joanne Harris
To discuss a Martin Amis book, you must first discuss the orchestrated release of a Martin Amis book. In London, which rightly prides itself on the vibrancy of its literary cottage industry, Amis is the Steve Jobs of book promoters, and his product rollouts are as carefully managed as anything Apple dreams up. -- Graydon Carter
Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing. -- Hope Davis
The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I verifly believe it would be impossible throughout the length and breadth of Wiltshire to find a single bad cottage on any large estate, so well and so thoroughly have the landed proprietors done their work. -- Richard Jefferies
I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.' -- Linwood Barclay
I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom. -- Mallory Ortberg
Overnight I became a cottage industry. -- Jean Harris
Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture. -- Washington Irving
[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage ... -- Bette Midler
A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace. -- Hamilton Wright Mabie
The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute. -- Charlotte Smith
Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business. -- Derek Bailey
With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate. -- Horace
The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six! -- George Colman the Elder
Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry... -- Ned Sublette
You're buying for the benefit of the cottage experience at a fraction of the price. -- Brad Bird
I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight." -- Sally Quinn
I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight. -- Sally Quinn
It's definitely safer to be single, especially with this cottage industry that's devoted to extorting celebrities. -- Charlie Sheen
To help my muscles rebuild after I work out, I have a small serving of cottage cheese. -- Brooke Burns
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. -- Edmund Waller
Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper. -- Swami Vivekananda
Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy. -- Horace
With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry. -- Anthony Burgess
Adding kidney beans to his cottage cheese and pineapple was an act of bravery Dave had not intended. -- Theric Jepson
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings -- Horace
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small. -- Phillips Brooks
Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery. -- Joseph Warren
I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc -- David Brainerd
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts. -- Lord Chesterfield
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
I would sooner live in a cottage and wonder at everything than live in a castle and wonder at nothing! -- Joan Winmill Brown
I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside. -- Christian McKay
For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage. -- William Gurnall
All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden. -- Reginald Farrer
Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace. -- Horace
Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage. -- Thomas Kincade
Phaedra of Alonso's death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage. -- Melina Marchetta
John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film. -- Mink Stole
In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God. -- Wilferd Peterson
Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car. -- Mary Wesley
Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
He stood beside a cottage lone And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale was mute. -- Thomas Kibble Hervey
Come little cottage girl, you seem to want my cup of tea; and will you take a little cream? Now tell the truth to me! -- Barry Pain
You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself -- C. S. Lewis
You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial. -- Sloane Crosley
The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own. -- William Faulkner
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night -- Allen Ginsberg
If you have good neighbours, you can bear living in a bad cottage; if you have bad neighbours, you can't bear living even in a good palace! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not. -- John James Ingalls
Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work. -- Peter Stone
One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world. -- Juanita M. Kreps
A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking and seeing friends. -- Philip Warren Anderson
That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. -- George Orwell
In a simple and a peaceful cottage with a beautiful view, you will not be dreaming about the palaces or the heaven, because you already have a perfect thing! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
He doesn't need my help coming up with pranks. He's got too many ideas of his own. - Daja referring to Briar in their first year at Discipline cottage -- Tamora Pierce
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage. -- William Jennings Bryan
An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above. -- Maria Mitchell
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage. -- William Jennings Bryan
Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature. -- J. K. Rowling
Life is very nice in Hawaii. I rent a place that has its own cottage so when my friends and family come to visit, they have somewhere nice to stay. -- Jorge Garcia
Goodbye Darcy, goodbye Jean, goodbye stone cottage, scratchy towels, fields of wildflowers; good bye gorgeous Peak District ... OK English People, for your own good, get off the roads, here we come! -- Susan Branch
I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone. -- Ricky Gervais
Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener. -- Wilfrid Sheed
If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life. -- Edward Gibbon
I like cottage cheese. That's why I want to try other dwelling cheeses, too. How about studio apartment cheese? Tent cheese? Mobile home cheese? Do not eat mobile home cheese in a tornado. -- Mitch Hedberg
The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man. -- Marsilio Ficino
They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage. -- Jim Capaldi
I cannot get into cottage cheese, and I've tried a lot. Yogurt is hard for me to eat, too. I have to hold my nose to get it down. There's something wrong with that. -- Chandra Wilson
I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. They must have loved it so. -- Kurt Vonnegut
You gonna back down so easy, little sister?. Not much wild about you, is there? I bet that cottage doesn't have a scratch. Did Edward tell you how many houses Rose and I smashed? -- Stephenie Meyer
In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him. -- Thomas Carlyle
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American forces in Iraq found $650 million in American cash sealed in a hidden cottage. See, this is why President Bush wants to invade Iraq, the whole place is oil and cash. It's like Republican Disneyland. -- Jay Leno

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