Coleman Dowell Quotes

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.

Coleman Dowell

• House
• Someone
• Left
• Possessions
• Sordid

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• I chose my house because I loved the fact that there was a really busy road with lots of things to stare at.

  

  Kate Williams
  • House
  • Road
  • Loved

• I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Opportunity
  • Always
  • Someone

• I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • House
  • Fall
  • See

• As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.

  

  Dan Webster
  • House
  • Leadership
  • Easy

• I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Up
  • Country
  • House

• I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'

  

  Nate Berkus
  • She
  • Mother
  • House

• For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Free

• A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob's turned on, people are judging against all they have ever been taught. I may have been the first black in the house.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • May

• Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Someone

• Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • House
  • Play
  • Fire

• I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • House
  • Morning
  • Everyday

• I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Kids

• I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Life
  • House
  • Nice

• Of course I was in love with my father as a child. He was Daddy, and our house came alive in a special way whenever he walked through the door. He'd romp and play with us; my sisters and I would literally squeal with excitement when Daddy came home.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Love
  • Home
  • Father

• I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Live
  • Money

• Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Business
  • House
  • Death

• I recalled how a lot of my older siblings would go to a friend's house and borrow records to play and sometimes borrow a turntable because we didn't have a turntable in the house until I was 8, about the same time we had a TV.

  

  Patty Loveless
  • Time
  • House
  • Friend

• Nobody cooks anymore. To me, to watch your parents cook, and to have a house that smells warm and delicious, is a very vital memory that I think kids don't really have anymore.

  

  Tyler Florence
  • Kids
  • House
  • Parents

• Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.

  

  Sophocles
  • House
  • Shadow
  • Tyrant

• I can be going through nothing, but within me, in my head, oh my God! It can be a circus.

  

  Christian Slater
  • God

• Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Life
  • Up
  • Scientist

• It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.

  

  Coleman Dowell
  • House
  • Someone
  • Left