Chimneys Quotes - Page 5

• You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere.

  Peter May

  Clouds, Atmosphere, Storm

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• Las nubes volaban rápidamente, el viento se levantaba en ráfagas, golpeando algunas contraventanas vecinas que se habían soltado, haciendo girar las oxidadas chimeneas y veletas, y dando vueltas y vueltas alrededor de un confinado cementerio adyacente, como si tuviera la intención de sacar a los ciudadanos muertos de sus tumbas. El bajo trueno, murmurando en todos los rincones del cielo a la vez, parecía amenazar con vengarse de este intento de profanación, y murmurar: "¡Déjalos descansar! ¡Que descansen!

  Charles Dickens

  Blow, Clouds, Wind

  CHARLES DICKENS (1873). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.153

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• It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only exit is by way of the Chimney. (What did it mean? Soon we were all to learn what it meant.)

  Primo Levi

  Home, Mean, Way

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere, I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair. I looked way up my chimney hole, I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl.

  Bob Dylan

  Way, Toilets, Politics

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now.

  Tim Walker

  Butterfly, College, Stories

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• Si no puedes evitar una disputa con un canalla, deja que sea tu abogado quien la gestione, y no tú mismo. Nadie deshollina su propia chimenea, sino que emplea a un deshollinador, que no tiene inconveniente en hacer un trabajo sucio, porque es su oficio.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Dirty, Men, Lawyer

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.168

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• El olfato y el gusto no son más que un único sentido compuesto, cuyo laboratorio es la boca y su chimenea la nariz.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Smell, Noses

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2012). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Weed, Sweet, Apples

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• Maybe that whole love thing is just a grown-up version of Santa Claus; just a myth we've been fed since childhood. So, we keep buying magazines, joining clubs, and doing therapy and watching movies with hit pop songs played over love montages all in a pathetic attempt to explain why our love Santa keeps getting caught in the chimney.

  Meg Ryan

  Song, Childhood, Joining

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• The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the blast.

  Robert Bridges

  Moon, Clouds, Wind

  Robert Seymour Bridges, “Low Barometer”

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• Snowstorms may yet whiten fields and gardens, high winds may howl about the trees and chimneys, but the little blue heralds persistently proclaim from the orchard and the garden that the spring procession has begun to move.

  Neltje Blanchan

  Spring, Moving, Garden

  Neltje Blanchan (1922). “Bird Neighbors: An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods about Our Homes”

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• If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Facts, Window

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). "Selecciones básicas de Emerson: Ensayos, Poemas y Apotegmas"

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• La enfermedad infecciosa es una de las pocas aventuras auténticas que quedan en el mundo. Los dragones están todos muertos y la lanza se oxida en el rincón de la chimenea. ... Casi la única propuesta deportiva que permanece intacta por la implacable domesticación de una especie humana que una vez vivió libre es la guerra contra esos feroces y pequeños congéneres que acechan en los rincones oscuros y nos acechan en los cuerpos de ratas, ratones y todo tipo de animales domésticos; que vuelan y se arrastran con los insectos, y nos acechan en nuestra comida y bebida e incluso en nuestro amor...".

  Hans Zinsser

  Guerra, Aventura, Ciencia

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• No temas más el calor del sol ni la furia de los inviernos; has terminado tu tarea mundana, te has ido a casa y has cobrado tu salario. Todos los muchachos y muchachas dorados deben, como deshollinadores, convertirse en polvo.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Death, Art

  "Cymbeline" (1609-10) acto 4, esc. 2, l. 258

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• I wish we could grow up about it, I'm sure we are contributing to global warming, and we must do all we can to reduce that, but our climate has always changed. The Romans had vineyards in Yorkshire. We're all on this bandwagon of 'Ban the 4x4 in Fulham'. Why didn't we have global warming during the Industrial Revolution? In those days you couldn't have seen across the street for all the carbon emissions and the crap coming out of the chimneys.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Growing Up, Carbon Emissions, Wish

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• A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above the tossing tree tops with withering leaves, and the smoky chimneys, is a poor thing for our eyes to gaze at, or our hearts to love, or our hands to toil on.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Life, Heart, Eye

  Alexander MacLaren "MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture", Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

  Agatha Christie

  Girl, Morning, Night

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• ¿Te has peleado con tus mantas, Septimus?" Una voz familiar resonó por la chimenea. "Parece que has perdido", continuó la voz con una risita. "No es prudente enfrentarse a un par de mantas, muchacho. Una, tal vez, pero dos mantas siempre se te echan encima. Las mantas son viciosas.

  Angie Sage

  Sabio, Lucha, Dos

  Angie Sage (2012). "Physik: Septimus Heap", p.40, A&C Black

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• The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Civilization, Dachau, Foolish

  Cormac McCarthy (2011). “The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• She grew more and more silent about what really mattered. She curled inside herself like one of those black chimney brushes, the little shellfish you see on the beach, and you touch them, and then go inside and don’t come out.

  Janet Frame

  Beach, Black, Littles

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• I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!

  Christopher Marlowe

  Book, Oysters, Envy

  Christopher Marlowe, David Wootton (2005). “Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book”, p.36, Hackett Publishing

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• Todas las cabezas se giraron para ver aparecer a otros dos guardias de seguridad, cada uno sujetando a un Bagshaw por la nuca (lo que podría haber sido considerablemente menos llamativo si los Bagshaws no hubieran ido vestidos de deshollinadores). Kat se volvió hacia Hale. ¿La Mary Poppins? Me pareció una buena idea en aquel momento.

  Ally Carter

  Security Guards, Ideas, Two

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• The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees.

  Ronald Reagan

  Agency, Air, Tree

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• Praise
  the invisible sun burning beyond
  the white cold sky, giving us
  light and the chimney's shadow.

  Denise Levertov

  Light, Sky, White

  Denise Levertov (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

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• Mi mente analítica, antaño tan aguda, se ha embotado de tal manera a causa de las interminables horas bajo el sol abrasador, dando vueltas en chimeneas estrechas, tirando de cargas imposiblemente pesadas, congelándome el culo fuera de .... que ahora mi estado mental es comparable al de un indio peruano, bien avivado por las hojas de coca.

  Warren G. Harding

  Escalada, Mente, Caliente

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