Landlord Quotes

“É impossível justificar os excessos do povo ao pegar em armas... Mas é realmente o povo a quem devemos imputar tudo, ou a seus opressores, que os mantiveram por tanto tempo na escravidão? Aquele que escolhe ser servido por escravos, e por escravos mal-tratados deve saber que preserva tanto sua propriedade quanto sua vida através da dominação, diferentemente de quem prefere os serviços de homens livres e bem tratados; e aquele que ceia ao som de lamentos de dor não deve, num momento de insurreição, reclamar que suas filhas foram violentadas e mortas, nem que cortaram a garganta de seus filhos. Quando tais males ocorrem, certamente são mais imputáveis à tirania dos grandes senhores do que à crueldade dos servos.”
― Arthur Young

“Looking back on it, I realize that it might not have been the completely right thing to do. Unfortunately, the rental market in San Francisco sometimes requires that you overlook trivial things like having a serial killer for a landlord.”
― Darren McKeeman, City of Apocrypha

“Lloyd moved to the blackboard and wrote ‘Maneater, Hall and Oates’ at the bottom of a long list of songs and artists.

The blackboard in the kitchen had once been installed as a way of communication for the house. It had turned into a list of Songs That You Would Never See In The Same Light Again. This was basically a list of songs that our serial killing landlord had blared at one time or another at top volume to cover the sound of his heavy electric power tools. It was a litany of 70’s and 80’s music.

Blondie, Heart of Glass was on the list. So was Duran Duran’s ‘Hungry like the Wolf’. Sam had jokingly given him an Einstürzende Neubauten CD on the premise that his tools would blend right in to the music, and he’d returned it the next day, saying it was too suspicious-sounding and made him very nervous for some reason. The next weekend, we had gone right back to the 80’s with the Missing Persons and Dead or Alive.

I tried not to think about why he was playing the music, but it was a little hard not to think about. The strange thumps sometimes suggested that he’d gotten a live one downstairs and was merrily bashing in their skull in the name of his psoriasis to the tune of ‘It’s My Life’ by Talk Talk. Other times I listened in horror as my favorite Thomas Dolby songs were accompanied by an annoying high-pitched buzzsaw whine that altered as if it had entered some sort of solid tissue. He never borrowed music from us again – he claimed our music was too disturbing and dark, and shunned our offerings of Ministry and Nine Inch Nails in favor of some­thing nice and happy by Abba. You’ve never had a restless night from imagining someone deboning a human body while blaring ‘Waterloo’ or ‘Fernando’. It’s not fun.”
― Darren McKeeman, City of Apocrypha

“A great real estate agent don't sells, he helps.”
― Amit Kalantri

“A good real estate agent sells himself before he sells his services.”
― Amit Kalantri

“The most profitable investment on the land is land.”
― Amit Kalantri

“One common factor among all rich people on earth is that they all invest in earth.”
― Amit Kalantri

“The purpose of real estate agent should be to create a customer who creates customers.”
― Amit Kalantri

“If you don't find a good deal for your customer, your competitor will.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Real estate agents who lies, eventually lose business to real estate agents who tell the truth.”
― Amit Kalantri

“A great realtor is always in relationship with real estate.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Real estate is too important, all the battles and wars essentially happened and happens for real estate.”
― Amit Kalantri

“A customer oriented realtor not only finds you a good home, he also finds you a good neighborhood.”
― Amit Kalantri

“কবি মধুসূদন দত্তের কবিতা :

‘চণ্ডালে বসাও আনি রাজার আলয়ে ।

কিন্তু নহি গঞ্জি তেমা, গুরুজন তুমি

পিতৃতুল্য, ছাড় দ্বার, যাব অস্ত্রাগারে…’

মধুসূদন দত্ত এই কবিতা লেখার শ-খানেক বছর পরে

মৈমনসিংহের রাজা সত্যব্রত চৌধুরী এবং চণ্ডাল আমি

এক ঘরের ভিতরে দুই বছর ছিলাম — ইডেন হিন্দু হোস্টেলে ।

এইসব আমি ভাবি এবং অবাক হয়ে যাই ।

সত্যব্রত ব্রেকফাস্ট খায় FIRPO হোটেলে ।

এবং বর্তমানে ৭২ বছর বয়সে চা খাই তা সিনেমায়

তুলে নিয়ে গেছে ঢাকার মুসলমানরা । আমি

FIRPO রেস্তোঁরায় একবারই ব্রেকফাস্ট খেয়েছিলাম

সত্যব্রতর সঙ্গে ।

( ছোটো ছোটো গদ্য ও পদ্য [২০০৭ ]”
― Binoy Majumdar, ছোটো ছোটো গদ্য ও পদ্য

“Q: what radicalized you?

A: When we lived in public housing my mom started a community garden to grow food to save money and to occupy the kids that lived there and the public housing authority came & pulled out all the plants and poured bleach into the ground to destroy it. Because gardens weren't allowed.

(8/3/2020 on Twitter)”
― Kaitlyn Greenidge

“Greed will be the landlord of man's estate.”
― Anthony T. Hincks