Citas sobre chimeneas

• Que ahora ardan las chimeneas y las copas rebosen de vino; que las palabras bien afinadas asombren con divina armonía.

  Thomas Campion

  Love, Wine, Cups

  Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”

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• Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

  Julie Andrews

  Sky, Shoes, People

  Julie Andrews (1974). “Julie Andrews”

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• It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Two, Fuel, Easier

  Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The Way to Wealth”, p.7

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• The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Real, Hoot

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.107, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; evenafter the house is burned it still stands sometimes, and its importance and independence are apparent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independent, House, Heaven

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.156, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Me pusieron una inyección en el conducto de humos y ahora mi chimenea funciona perfectamente.

  Steve Martin

  Disparos

  Twitter post from Oct 5, 2011

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• La ganancia puede ser temporal e incierta; pero mientras vivas, el gasto es constante y seguro: y es más fácil construir dos chimeneas que mantener una con combustible.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivación, Dos, Libertad

  Benjamin Franklin William Temple Franklin (1818). "Memorias de la vida y escritos de (el mismo), continuadas hasta el momento de su muerte por William Temple Franklin. - Londres, H. Colburn 1818", p.253

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• Uno puede tener un hogar ardiente en el alma y, sin embargo, nadie viene nunca a sentarse junto a él.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Triste, Solitario, Soledad

  Carta a Theo van Gogh desde Cuesmes, www.vangoghletters.org. 22-24 de junio de 1880.

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• Uno puede tener un hogar ardiente en el alma y, sin embargo, nadie viene nunca a sentarse junto a él. Los transeúntes sólo ven una brizna de humo de la chimenea y siguen su camino.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Amor, Soledad, Artista

  Carta a Theo van Gogh desde Cuesmes, www.vangoghletters.org. 22-24 de junio de 1880.

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• I'd like to start with the chimney jokes - I've got a stack of them. The first one is on the house.

  Tim Vine

  House, Firsts, Jokes

  "Tim Vine wins Dave award for funniest joke of Edinburgh fringe festival" by Hannah Ellis-Petersen, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2014.

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• It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney.

  Kevin Keegan

  Eye, People, Pot

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• Sentados junto al rincón de la chimenea, a medida que envejecemos, las cosas más comunes que nos rodean adquieren significados vivos e insinúan la diferencia entre estos tiempos de conducción y los días de calma y movimiento lento de cuando éramos jóvenes.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Pasar página, Diferencias, Hora de pasar página

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). "Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography", p. 62, Vanderbilt University Press.

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• No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

  Bertrand Russell

  Belleza, Hermoso, Real

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• Llegamos a la casa, y es una casa vieja, llena de grandes chimeneas donde se quema leña en antiguos perros sobre el hogar, y sombríos retratos (algunos de ellos con sombrías leyendas, también) bajan desconfiadamente de los paneles de roble de las paredes.

  Charles Dickens

  Dog, Wall, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.91, Penguin

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• He descubierto el secreto de la felicidad: es el trabajo, ya sea con las manos o con la cabeza. En el momento en que tengo algo que hacer, las corrientes de aire se abren y mi chimenea tira, y soy feliz.

  John Burroughs

  Work, Hands, Secret

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• Los calcetines se colgaban junto a la chimenea con cuidado,
  con la esperanza de que San Nicolás llegara pronto.

  Clement Clarke Moore

  Christmas, Care, Would Be

  1822 La noche antes de Navidad.

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• Sus casas están construidas en forma de tiendas de campaña, con chimeneas muy altas.

  Cristóbal Colón

  House, Shapes, Tents

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.50

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• The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Tombstone, Sky

  Edward Abbey (1954). "Estofado barriobajero: un lector de Edward Abbey", E P Dutton

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• Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.

  Richard Morris Hunt

  Hunting, Goal, House

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• Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.

  Nicholas Culpeper

  Squash, Roots, Dry

  Nicholas Culpeper (1863). “The complete herbal; to which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities ... to which are now first annexed, The English physician, enlarged, and Key to physic ... New edition ... Illustrated by engravings of numerous British herbs and plants, correctly coloured from nature”, p.201

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• La Abadía de Westminster, la Torre, un campanario, una iglesia, y luego otra, se presentaron a nuestra vista; y ahora podíamos distinguir claramente las altas chimeneas redondas en las cimas de las casas, que sin embargo nos parecían formar un número innumerable de pequeñas agujas, o campanarios.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Vistas, Números, Casa

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). "Viajes por Inglaterra en 1782", p.7, BoD - Books on Demand

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• There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Thinking, Wilderness, Moved

  Remarks at University of Chicago, January 14, 1966.

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• When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

  William Blake

  Mother, Father, Sleep

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Chimney Sweeper'

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• Fuma como una chimenea, trabaja como un caballo, come sin pensar, pasea sólo en compañía realmente agradable.

  Albert Einstein

  Horse, Thinking, Walks

  "What I've Learned: Albert Einstein", www.esquire.com. April 16, 2007.

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• Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell you that the cloud of murder hangs thicker and lower than that over the heads of the people. It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Corazón, Hombres, Nubes

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “The Valley of Fear”, p.104, ebookspub

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