Attic Quotes

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home.

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.

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

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.

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.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

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.

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.

But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic.