Cabin Quotes

When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom‘s Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can’t hole myself up in a cabin and write down ideas for the rest of my life. I also need to be able to clean out a dog bite.

It’s much easier for me to sleep in space than it is back home. We sleep in a cabin, and you can float inside.

An airplane cabin isn’t the first place people think of when they choose an exhibition space, but I’m all for doing things differently.

I’ve said that I would play anything to do with ‘Star Wars.’ But really, deep down, I would love to come back as Darth Maul – that’s what I want to do. I would go crazy, go mental, lock myself in a cabin, you know. Do the whole ‘method‘ for two or three months, spear-fishing and stuff, just to play the character again.

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

As Ronald Reagan demonstrated, it is still possible to progress if not from a log cabin at least from obscurity to the White House. It is also rare.

I found the success of ‘In a Dark, Dark Wood’ really distracting when I was writing ‘The Woman in Cabin 10,’ but in a way, the fact that ‘Cabin 10’ was doing well felt quite freeing while I was writing ‘The Lying Game.’

In Canada, anything that’s not in the city is referred to as a cottage. Or a log cabin.

My first experiences of Colorado travel have been rather severe. At Greeley, I got a small upstairs room at first, but gave it up to a married couple with a child, and then had one downstairs no bigger than a cabin, with only a canvas partition. It was very hot, and every place was thick with black flies.

I think a lot of the fun of making records, for me, is making each one of them a situation. For example, with ‘Ghost,’ I found a group of people that had an energy together, and we kind of did it in a cabin somewhere.

There’s just something wonderful about getting a small group of people together in an isolated location, and there’s something about cabins themselves that imply both horror and fun. When you go to a cabin, you’re usually going to have a good time.

I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.

I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.

My dad just left high school in ’69, went to Woodstock, and after half a year of college for architecture, just took off for Alaska. He bought a van and went straight into the mountains and built a cabin.

There’s a cabin in Oregon I go to, which belonged to my parents. It’s never been winterized. It’s not a place you want to be after the first of October or before the first of June. I go for about three weeks every summer.

It sounds pretentious to say I ‘divide‘ my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.

I don’t know if many people know that one of the first jobs that I wanted and I lined up for was cabin crew at Jet. I was rejected because I was told I don’t have a good personality. Thank God for your rejection. After that, I got a job at McDonald‘s, and the rest is history.

BottleRock has these incredible VIP cabins where a chef is preparing sushi for you in your cabin or lounge decorated by Restoration Hardware.

If you’re going to have a cabin fever, have a big cabin, you know.

I grew up with a cabin so we’d always go out and hunt and fish and all that good stuff. All of the cliche Southern things one would imagine.

In August 2008, I moved with the man who would become my husband from Boston to a cabin in rural North Carolina.

Here’s the thing about ‘Cabin in the Woods.’ I did virtually no research on this movie.

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

I live in a cabin in Santa Cruz.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m just memorializing my youth when I spent all this time outdoors. I always envisioned my adult life like I’m going to run every day and live in the woods in a cabin if I can – and here I am living in San Francisco and working in a studio.

Flight attendants need to think on their feet and walk on their toes. An emergency landing can’t be steered by a pot-bellied cabin crew that crawls or belly-walks.

I joke that I’m in the market for a cabin in the woods, and, at some point, I won’t be joking anymore.

Historically, narratives of forgiveness were part of both the anti-slavery movement and the civil rights movement in America. ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ for instance, was based loosely on the life of the Rev. Josiah Henson, who forgave his master that wanted to sell him and beat him after Henson begged him not to.

Singing ‘Family Tradition‘ with Hank Jr. was a pee-your-pants moment. Hank comes over while I’m singing and puts his arm around me, and my knees nearly buckled. You can put off the fact that this is reality, but when he came over, there was just no denying. I just lost cabin pressure.

Flying through a hurricane is the most fearsome shaking you will ever get. Everything has to be tied down in the airplane. And the IMAX camera has to be rock-steady through all this. We had to design special mounts on the left and right sides of the cabin and in the cockpit to hold the cameras.

Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won’t be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y’know.

If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

The most remote place I’ve been to was in Greenland. I remember setting out for a solo hike from a small cabin, itself several hours‘ boat ride from the nearest settlement.

Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.

An aircraft cabin is a place that seems to be nowhere, but I find it steeped in the place left behind and the place ahead.