Italianate House Quotes & Sayings

I sort of think in a way that many of us young reporters who had the opportunity to go overseas for our organizations were kind of, in a sense, war profiteers. We were enhancing our careers while covering that terrible conflict. — Walter Cronkite

Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art ... Black ice is an act of nature as elusive as grace, and far more rare ... I have never skated on black ice, but perhaps my children will. They'll know it, at least, when it appears: that the earth can stretch smooth and unbroken like grace, and they'll know as they know my voice that they were meant to have their share. — Lorene Cary

I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it. — Richard Helms

How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. — Gregory Maguire

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour. — James Surowiecki

I'm going somewhere where there aren't any women. — Osamu Dazai

I don't care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it's all about time and money eventually. — Nicholas Lea

Even the simplest of cottages often picked up the decorative elements of the more formal styles as is evident in this Italianate cottage. Almost square, the one-story frame cottage at 543 Coombs duplicates the symmetry of the larger Italianates. Note also its low-pitched roof and projecting eaves supported by elaborate pierced and scrolled brackets. The molded window hoods supported by brackets top tall, narrow sash windows. The front porch could grace a much larger house with its molded cornice, columns, brackets, pierced arches, and turned balusters. In 1908, auctioneer J.T. Gamble lived — Anthony Raymond Kilgallin