Cottage Quotes

This is a good moment to comment on the cottage industry that has sprung up around "How To" ... Screenwriting manuals. I think of this because Towne`s script (Chinatown) is often cited as a great template (which it is) but, invariably, with no understanding or acknowledgment of the role film editing has in shaping a finished work. So any discussion that omits this issue shows a palpable lack of experience in the actual making of films on the part of the scriptwriting teacher/author.

(on hearing that Elijah Wood told a reporter that Monaghan, Wood, and Billy Boyd were considering sharing a home in New Zealand:) "He has all these grand plans. We did look at property in New Zealand. What we`re going to do first, correct me if I`m wrong, is we`re going to buy property in our respective territories. Billy is going to buy a beautiful little cottage in Edinburgh and Elijah is going to buy some in L.A." (Boyd corrected him, "Glasgow!") (December 12, 2003)

Our cottage is high in the hills, not another house in sight, just some sheep, buzzards, running water and meadows of flowers. It`s lovely.

I am a big supporter of this charity here called the Women`s Care Cottage, so I went to see The Vagina Monologues and loved it. It was funny, it was educational and it was touching.

Bellinger Cottage is a significant home in Chicago`s history. The next owner would be eligible for a Federal income tax deduction in exchange for a written promise of perpetual preservation.

I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that`s your dream of what it`s going to be.

I always do my life around the school year. Around the middle of June, the kids are out of school and we go up to our cottage in Canada.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man`s cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children`s writer married to a poet.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter, the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

Smuggling was not just a cottage industry but a national industry. Some of these Spanish wrecks were carrying way above what they were supposed to be carrying.

Smuggling was not just a cottage industry, but a national industry.