Cabins quotes

Cabins

36 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash Musician, Singer-songwriter

"I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back."

Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist

"How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it."

J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

"The Forbidden Forest looked as though it had been enchanted, each tree smattered with silver, and Hagrid's cabin looked like an iced cake."

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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
Cabins

"I don't have a television set up [in the mountains], of course, but I find I don't miss it at all, or the newspaper. I've sneaked a radio into by cabin, but I find I turn it on very rarely."

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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
Cabins

"For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more."

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Eli Roth Filmmaker
Cabins

"'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific."

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Fran Kranz Actor, Director
Cabins

"I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre."

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Isabel Allende Novelist
Cabins

"Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy."

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