House Quotes

My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

Just as the value of a house lies in its location, The value of a mind lies in its depth, The value of giving lies in the presence of a generous spirit, The value of words lies in their reliability.

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

I have a Kenwood charcoal grill. In our house, if anybody is cooking, it's me. I love making burgers. I love making pork tenderloin. Lamb chops I do on the grill a lot. But you just can't beat brats.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Ain't that America, home of the free? Little pink houses for you and me.

Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.

We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

London is the clearing-house of the world.

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.

It is nice to be recognised for actually achieving something in life as opposed to spending seven weeks in a house on TV with a load of other muppets.

The ego is not master in its own house.

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?

That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.

I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job.

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.

Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.

I would have painted the White House black. I would have!

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.

I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.

Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?

I wouldn't bet on a horse unless he came up to my house and told me to himself.

We [americans] need to control our border just like people have to control who goes in and out of their house.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

My favorite party trick is to wear nothing but a gold thong in the house.

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

I once woke up at a random guy's house and i didn't actually know who he was.

Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. - Julia Louis

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?