Storey Building Providing

Famous quotes containing the words storey, building and/or providing:

“Tell me, Frank. Have you been indulging in what I call Mrs. Weaver’s weakness for social informalities?”
—David Storey (b. 1933)

“Nowadays almost all man’s improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it.... I ... dread idleness as if it were Hell.”
—Beatrice Potter Webb (1858–1943)