Chimney Sweeps Quotes:

She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.

- Terry Pratchett

source: "Hogfather". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1996.

topic: Jobs, Taken, Dancing, Chimney Sweeps

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

- Franz Kafka

source: Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.603, Simon and Schuster

topic: Art, Believe, Creativity, Chimney Sweeps, Saturday Night

Every head turned to see two more security guards appear, each holding a Bagshaw by the back of the neck (which might have been considerably less conspicuous had the Bagshaws not been dressed as chimney sweeps). Kat turned back to Hale. 'The Mary Poppins?' 'Seemed like a good idea at the time.

- Ally Carter

topic: Ideas, Two, Might, Hale, Chimney Sweeps

Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now.

- Tim Walker

topic: Butterfly, College, Stories, Chimney Sweeps

Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw through some delusions and rationalisations about what harms are good for people themselves (prison punishment, hysterectomies for unhappy 1950s wives); and readjusted our for-the-good of others criteria so as to demand only reasonable sacrifices (ceasing to use children as handy chimney sweeps).

- Catherine Wilson

topic: Children, Sacrifice, Animal, Hysterectomy, Chimney Sweeps