Flophouses Quotes & Sayings

I'm already a monster!" she shrieked.
"No, you're not!" Tom managed to heave himself to his knees. "You're my friend!" he shouted. — Philip Reeve

The answer to the first question was too impossible even to contemplate, but I would have to come to terms with it eventually. You see, we were in Hell. We were both in Hell. — Paul Kane

Christopher Robin ... just said it had an "x."' 'It isn't their necks I mind,' said Piglet earnestly. 'It's their teeth. — A.A. Milne

What would she have thought as a teenage girl arranging her artfully wasted limbs against the dais of a highly conceptual sculpture? — Jill Talbot

We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well. — Aristotle.

I'm tired of trying to fill up my empty spaces with things I don't need and people I don't like. — Beau Taplin

At 17, I traveled to Mexico in a lemon yellow Mustang and saved money by bunking down in cheap, cockroach-infested flophouses. In my early 20s, I went on to thumb rides through Europe, readily sleeping in train stations, my backpack as a pillow. Once I even hunkered down for a night on a sidewalk grate - for warmth - in Paris. — Michael Dirda

Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses. Its inhabitant are, as the man once said, "whores, pimps, gambler and sons of bitches," by which he meant Everybody. — John Steinbeck

I felt the warmth of his gaze from the tips of my hair to the tips of my toes. — Fisher Amelie

The important thing is first to find out what you are afraid of, to understand it and not run away from it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him. — Octavia Spencer

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist. — Ned Rorem