#cellar

Born in a cellar... and living in a garret. ↗

— Samuel Foote

#cellar #living

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#am #cellar #choicest #i #i am

Originally, the cellar served primarily as a coal store. Today it holds the boiler, idle suitcases, out-of-season sporting equipment, and many sealed cardboard boxes that are almost never opened but are always carefully transferred from house to house with every move in the belief that one day someone might want some baby clothes that have been kept in a box for twenty-five years. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#cellar #hoarding #moving #storage #home

What you should really be sorry for," he continued, "is that for the rest of my life, I'll have to avoid wine cellars to keep from thinking about you." "Why? Was kissing me that bad?" A devil-solf whisper. "No sweetheart. It was that good. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#haven #kiss #wine-cellar #life

But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#cellar #interesting #interesting stuff #real #stuff

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really. ↗

— David Bailey

#because #cellar #coal #eight #i

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anything #black #cat #cellar #dark

There's something about these obscure vignettes of former lives that's very powerful. Our woods are full of old cellar holes, tumbled-down chimneys, ancient scraggly lilacs absurdly tall still stretching toward the light. ↗

— Leslie Land

#forgotten #history #land #woods #food

It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars! ↗

— Alexander Woollcott

#along #cellars #chances #come #comes

I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#around #cellars #fields #find #i