The Master said, What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!(Analects 6.11) - Confucius
Living with small children is like having a bowling alley set up in your brain. - Martin Mull
She knew there was something dark in her then, when she left the alley and the shadows followed. - Daniella Michalleni
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. - Martin Mull
The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation. - Tennessee Williams