Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Martin

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.

Malorie Blackman

I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.

George Herbert

Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.

James Curtis

Smoke is an issue. I don't recommend them for residential environment without raising the chimney. ... With the proper chimney height it shouldn't be an issue.

Rebecca H. Davis

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

John Mickel

Chimney fires are very dangerous, and more times than not can make chimneys unusable,

John Yang

I guess all the weight of snow took out the chimney ... just knocked it over.

Charles Mackay

Nobles, citizens, farmers, mechanics, seamen, footmen, maid servants, even chimney sweeps and old clothes women dabbled in tulips.

Rich McVeigh

It's part of the lore of being a chimney sweep.

Charles Dickens

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

Rodrigo Hurtado

We want to see how much we can collect this month. We already have a little room filled with clothes.

Chloe Sevigny

I'm really into a blush on the eyelid and on the high of the cheek. The singer of 'Cocteau Twins' used to do that - really pink eyelids. It added a little romance to the hard kind of street-edge clothes.

China Machado

I do not really shop. Most of my clothes I make. I dress simply.

Edith Head

If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.

Edith Head

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

Edith Head

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

Edith Head

Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.

Eddie Izzard

They’re not women’s clothes. They’re my clothes. I bought them.

Arthur Rimbaud

What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!

Anton Chekhov

It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.

Miguel Syjuco

I don't see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.

William Shakespeare

Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

Lord Byron

Maid of Athens, ere we part, / Give, oh give me back my heart!

Jay Leno

You know what Arnold Schwarzenegger and Meg Whitman have in common? They both got in trouble for stiffing the maid.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public ...

Lupe Ontiveros

I've given every maid I've portrayed soul and heart.

William Shakespeare

You maid of hindering knot grass. You bead! You acorn!

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Alan Ayckbourn

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

Chris Abani

Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

Edith Sitwell

Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

Edith Sitwell

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Edith Sitwell

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

Edith Wharton

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

Earl Wilson

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.