House Quotes

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.

I'm loud and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody's got to, but I am not a monster. I'm not.

There's a lot of stress involved when your house is underwater.

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

I'm hatin' my reflection, I walk around the house tryin' to fight mirrors, I can't stand what I look like

Can one move an empire as if it were a house?

In my world there's no room for hate or discrimination in the White House. I will be an outspoken voice against that every time.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.

This great blue world of ours is but a house of leaves, moments before the wind.

Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.

I always wished my dad was there to intimidate my boyfriends or something. It's supposed to be your dad giving your guys friends the stink-eye for sneaking beer through your house, not your mom.

Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

I actually have OCD really bad, and it's getting a bit worse at the moment. I have to check taps... before I leave the house, to make sure I've checked everything in case it floods.

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.

My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized that I live in a soap opera, and it's awesome.

I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.

I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.

Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.

Your house is your larger body.

I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved.

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.

I have a very tiny house in Burbank. I drive an 8-year-old car. I'm gonna drive it into the ground. I enjoy what I enjoy.

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.

I can never do nothing in this house!

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

South Carolina put George H.W. Bush into the White House. But George W. Bush into the White House and sent Jeb Bush back to Miami.

I'm sure nobody wants to know this, but my husband does all the cleaning - rather too much cleaning. It is too clean, the house!

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

I'm always moving apartments or moving houses or moving cities.

It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.

One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.