Street people use cardboard all the time, and bum alleys are just shanties or lean-tos, though. They’re nothing like my house! Mine is deluxe! It’s a big, thick, super sturdy refrigerator box that I found at an appliance store!
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Or not at all. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Stars are everything and nothing that we think they are. They are their own world, but through ... J.M. EVANS Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other wal... DANA PERINO I’m not better, you know. The weight hasn’t left my head. I feel how easily I could fall back in... NED VIZZINI All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inc... JAMES JOYCE It’s super-important to have a strong social media presence, and Jane’s always going, When inter... TEDDY WAYNE I started photographing people on the street during World War II. I used a little box Brownie. Nothi... BILL CUNNINGHAM I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more... PRIMO LEVI I dress like a bum all the time. I'm a pretty casual fella. TRAVIS FIMMEL The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step... DR. DAVID SCHWARTZ The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step... DAVID JOSEPH SCHWARTZ Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gift... ERMA BOMBECK I lean into all things that are a little off. I will always wear overalls. At this point, I find a w... LAKE BELL This is what’ll happen,” she said, “and it’s true, perfectly true. When you go out of here, ... PHILIP PULLMAN I was an acidhead and a pot smoker. There was this one time some friends and I were ditching off cam... JOLENE BLALOCK We’re big veggie eaters and even though the grocery store might be cheaper on some things, we like... JOHN BAUER We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indo... ADAM SANDLER It’s people like you, Ron,” Hermione began hotly, “who prop up rotten and unjust systems, just... J.K. ROWLING I use Lee Tran's van service, my cane, and there are friends who call, see if I need anything. Peopl... JANET RAY Everyone has areas they're not comfortable with, and mine are my bum, thighs, and legs. JESSICA BIEL I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's real... KESHA Our theory in the Internet is buy the street, not the store, ... We'd rather own the street instead ... TONY DWYER I am a great observer of things, and I do it all the time. I store stuff; I use it as an actor; that... STEVE BISLEY Everybody has a home team: It’s the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something ter... SHAUNA NIEQUIST I just wouldn’t want to hook up with a guy unless I really, really like him, and in my experi... DARIA SNADOWSKY I don't like the lunch box at school and just throw it away. My classmates and I always buy snacks o... CHEN JIE We think a tornado touched down. The (house) is really not a big concern - all this is just too big.... KRIS EDWARDS Everything has a past, a voice, existed at some point, even things as small and seemingly meaningles... REBECCA MCNUTT Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depen... FRANCESCA ANNIS Sometimes I just want to go in a room and break things and scream. Like, it’s so much pressure all... LIBBA BRAY I love being in my forties. Just getting there and realising that you haven't grown horns or boi... THANDIE NEWTON I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches. TOM SIZEMORE Most English people are horrified that I use soap, but I like it - it works for my skin. I try diffe... MARIE HELVIN Magic is just a term people use for things they’re too primitive to understand properly. JUSTIN RICHARDS I see this as the most viable of four possible options. We could do away with the matrix altogether ... THOMAS CHRISTIE If the foundation of your house is righteousness then your wealth will not be like a cardboard house... SUNDAY ADELAJA At first, I think people thought I was a bum or a damn nut, so they were leery of me. People are nic... BOB BERRY When I was 5 years old, we had nothing in the village. One day, in front of my house, some soldiers ... RENZO ROSSO Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold. TANC SADE The world isn’t always what’s right in front of you, you know? It’s below, it’s above, it’... PENELOPE DOUGLAS It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays. ETHEL WATERS It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered. EMILY BRONTë But my heart is an old house (the kind my mother grew up in) hell to heat and cool CLEMENTINE VON RADICS And I will get to climb on that big beautiful bike of yours and wrap my arms around you and lean int... KAREN MARIE MONING He’s here. I feel him. His body is touching mine and it’s very real. We’re holding each other;... DENNIS SHARPE Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own re... AMY GRANT This is a one-box appliance solution, good for companies with limited IT resources. MARK PHILLIPPI I've found over the years that for some reason, people either are big fans and have to use me, o... FRED WILLARD All personal god, yours or mine, are false. Unto existence nothing but an infinite oneness walks. FAKEER ISHAVARDAS Give me a sandwich and think you saved the world? It don't work like that! God sent you to give me t... MATHEW QUICK ...You wanna change or hide or feel what it’s like to just be not you, if just for a night. But at... MARY SHANNON I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to d... AARON RODGERS An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine. ANDRES SERRANO Sometimes people in abusive situations think they’re responsible for the other person’s happines... SHARON SALZBERG It’s a pity that majority of people on earth are either not measuring their lives at all or are me... SUNDAY ADELAJA I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say. WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN
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VAN WYCK BROOKS Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wh... VAN WYCK BROOKS The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. VAN WYCK BROOKS The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. VAN WYCK BROOKS Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. VAN WYCK BROOKS Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. VINCENT VAN GOGH Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I ... VINCENT VAN GOGH I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. VINCENT VAN GOGH The way to know life is to love many things. VINCENT VAN GOGH Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. VINCENT VAN GOGH Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wris... HARRIET VAN HORNE One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure. HARRIET VAN HORNE The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies. MARTIN VAN BUREN One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by se... VINCENT VAN GOGH There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most hone... MARTIN VAN BUREN I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend. GUS VAN SANT There is no blue without yellow and without orange. VINCENT VAN GOGH The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these... VINCENT VAN GOGH It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and a... VINCENT VAN GOGH If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the... EDDIE VAN HALEN I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsessio... STEVEN VAN ZANDT When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I ... EDDIE VAN HALEN Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiven... DICK VAN DYKE Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movi... MAMIE VAN DOREN I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a ... MAMIE VAN DOREN I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin! MAMIE VAN DOREN I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent. MAMIE VAN DOREN My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot. MAMIE VAN DOREN I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary. MAMIE VAN DOREN I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to... MAMIE VAN DOREN