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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. -- John F. Kennedy
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. -- Richard Bach
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. -- George Carlin
I played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan. -- Margo Martindale
I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan. -- Margo Martindale
As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals. -- Mark Galli
Whether we have a leak or roof that needs to be replaced, we can always count on Premier Roofing Services to get the job done the right way. -- Matt Keough
The big one I missed out on was 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Bros. wouldn't give me permission to do it. -- Carroll Baker
I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down. -- Tamara Tunie
As far as I remember, there was no actual lyric written to that.At the very beginning of "Fiddler on the Roof," there's a violin solo, an unaccompanied violin solo. -- Sheldon Harnick
And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. For now, do not worry about "proper" praying, just talk to God. -- Richard J. Foster
When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to take us to see like, 'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof' or something like that, with Elizabeth Taylor. -- Michael Biehn
There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man. -- Maj Sjowall
There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.' -- Maj Sjowall
I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of Fiddler on the Roof when I was in third grade or fourth grade. I was one of the younger kids accepted into the play, and the plays were pretty impressive, let me say. -- Lizzy Caplan
I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' when I was in third grade or fourth grade. I was one of the younger kids accepted into the play, and the plays were pretty impressive, let me say. -- Lizzy Caplan
I grew up in a small town, in a small community, and I would not have had access to great plays when I was a kid were it not for the films of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' -- Tracy Letts
I dwell in Possibility A fairer House than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior--for Doors Of Chambers as the Cedars Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky Of Visitors--the fairest For Occupation--This The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise -- Emily Dickinson
A library is infinity under a roof. -- Gail Carson Levine
Like a Cat on a hot tin roof -- Tennessee Williams
People in New York love having roof parties. -- Todd Barry
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof. -- James Russell Lowell
You've gotta blow the roof off of your heart and let the universe in. -- Lou Reed
There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house. -- Anne Tyler
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof. Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth. -- Pharrell Williams
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls. -- Khaled Hosseini
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. -- Mary Catherwood
Why did Mitt Romney strap his dog to the roof of his car? Could it be because his station wagon was full of wives? -- Bill Maher
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don't have a roof over your head for the night. -- Ellen Potter
We both liked the idea but couldn't figure out a way to get up to the roof. Vince had just seen the Spider-Man movie and suggested we shoot webs out of our wrists and swing up there. We asked Vince not to contribute any more ideas. -- Chris Jericho
When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold; When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home. -- Barack Obama
The sky's the limit if you have a roof over your head. -- Sol Hurok
The roof cannot collapse when the value pillars of government and society are sound and strong. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I'm happy when I land on the roof. -- Darren Criss
'The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof all over the world. -- Todd Phillips
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. -- James Russell Lowell
When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself. -- Jerry Seinfeld
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof. -- Anzia Yezierska
I didn't feel that running away would change anything but when the roof of the garage started coming off I thought it was time to go. -- John Harrison
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky. -- E. T. A. Hoffmann
Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results. -- Caskie Stinnett
Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It's very easy to enjoy yourself. -- Tove Jansson
I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled. -- Paula Poundstone
I want my music to jump off the stage and out of the speakers. When we do 'Rain Is A Good Thing' paired back to back with 'Country Girl,' it just feels like the roof is fixin' to come off the place. -- Luke Bryan
If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow. -- Rebecca Pidgeon
Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure. -- Linwood Barclay
So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country. -- Donald Trump
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. -- Ramakrishna
After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all. -- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Frankly, it's depressing, each night sleeping in someone else's home. I miss having a roof to my name. Our situation isn't an 'All in the Family' cliche, but it's still easy to see reality in plain terms: I live with my in-laws, and I can't say when that will change. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof. -- Steve Jobs
I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive. -- Gail Collins
I have three younger siblings, so the four of us were outside all the time after school playing games, making up games. My sister made up a game called 'roof ball.' We'd play that constantly. She always beat me in it, and it made me very mad. But we were outside all the time. -- Andrew Luck
In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet. -- Les Dawson
Another roof, another proof. -- Paul Erdos
One thing the coupe never got? ROOF -- Nicki Minaj
Look for happiness under your own roof. -- Gretchen Rubin
The shelter of excuses has a leaky roof. -- Ron Kaufman
The roof might fall in; anything could happen. -- Dashiell Hammett
Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude. -- Plato
Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday. -- James Russell Lowell
When I had no roof I made audacity my roof. -- Robert Pinsky
God is too large to be housed under one roof, -- Roger Williams
My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof. -- Jean-Luc Godard
No known roof is as beautiful as the skies above. -- Micheal O Muircheartaigh
Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof... -- Tennessee Williams
We`ve had tremendous success, the bookings are through the roof. -- Donald Trump
With hair, heels, and attitude, honey, I am through the roof. -- RuPaul
All Iraqis should live under one roof and for one goal. -- Muqtada al Sadr
It flew towards the roof of the net like a Wurlitzer -- George Hamilton
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps' nest. -- Matsuo Basho
I feel now I can take my talent through the roof. -- Terrell Owens
Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof. -- Holly Black
It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof. -- Bill Gates
May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. -- David McCullough
I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof. -- Donald Knuth
Wisemen's minds and hearts live together under the same roof of wisdom -- Munia Khan
Clap your hands if you feel like a room without a roof -- Pharrell Williams
Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history -- Gregory Maguire
We are a research center and treatment facility all under one roof. -- Marlo Thomas
Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof. -- William Ellery Channing
Exercising with a trainer makes my quality of life go through the roof. -- Nadia Giosia
I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing. -- Matt LeBlanc
The earth is all the home I have, the heavens my wide roof-tree -- William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Every lover is a storm chaser. Every good heart has lost its roof. -- Andrea Gibson
In this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowers -- Kobayashi Issa
I bring truth to tha youth tear tha roof off tha ol' school. -- Tupac Shakur
The best time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. -- Brad D. Smith
If you run from a leaking roof you'll end up with a flood. -- Mahmoud Abbas
We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell -- Jack Kerouac
Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside. -- Bonnie Hunt
Make your next car electric, put solar panels on your roof, and go vegan. -- Leilani Munter
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. -- William Faulkner
The National is the most advanced package of technological wonders yet assembled under one roof. -- Jack Kroll
Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Damn where my roof just go? Top slipped off like Janet at the Super Bowl. -- Drake
Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned. -- Ernest Hello
Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great. -- Anthony Bourdain
A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world. -- Chelsea Clinton
It's all Trump all day long [on CNN]. That's why their ratings are through the roof. -- Donald Trump
So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine. -- Jeff Vandermeer
A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof. -- Roger Chamberlain
Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head. -- Thomas Heywood
The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm. -- Thomas Beecham
When raindrops hit the tin roof it's crazy. That's a metaphor, did I lose you baby? -- Drake
So the first thing we're gonna do," I told him, "is push you off the roof. -- James Patterson
When it don't rain, the roof don't leak; when it rains, I can't fix it nohow. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof. -- Rumi
After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board -- Gary Snyder
Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors. --
We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof. -- Andy Samberg
Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man. -- Sappho
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The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. -- John Milton

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