House Quotes

I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family's been...we've been enjoying each other's comedy for years.

I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours.

So the idea of being able to shop cross-category to buy the beach bag, the summer lip gloss, and the pillows for your pool house makes it into very focused, easy life.

Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.

God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

Hey, Nana... people's feelings change easily... what you see is a house of cards... nothing's sure, and nothing lasts forever.

When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.

I'd sneak out of the house to meet girls at 3:30 a.m.

I don't have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don't have anything plugged into it, though. I watch DVDs.

The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.

I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House.

Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house.

The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.

[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that's why I guess it's semi-autobiographical.

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

I've never really cared much about money. I've got enough to live on. And it's not like I live in a fancy house, it's not like I own a car, and it's not like I ever go on holiday.

I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

I do feel that houses have faces - and feelings too.

I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.

My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.

When Tetro came out, I met with Warren Beatty for the first time. I had, like, a four-and-a-half-hour lunch with him, and then over the next five years continued to meet with him and go to his house.

When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.

To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.

It was time for me to spend more time with my wife. I'm not saying I do spend more time with my wife, because she would throw me out of the house, but we have breakfast together. I never did.

I remember reading Disturbia, one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go "Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?"

You can take my cars or my house, just don't mess with my clothes.

I feel really comfortable playing to people who've never heard Beach House before. We've always had fun opening because you get to try to impress people.

If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me.

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

I love leaving the house in a new outfit; I don't feel the pressure at all.

The rooms that are lived in are the ones we find most comforting.

When one stops working at the height of one's career, it's just stupid not to say, 'I want to make sure I have a house.'

What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.

That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.

Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.

These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

Life is short, and I'd rather be sitting in the poor house doing what I love doing than making a lot of money and being miserable. Life is very short.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

Cop families have guns in their houses.

People who live in seven houses shouldn't throw stones

Times change, and right now what people need is, they need to be able to send their kids to college, they need to able to buy a house.

I'm not very good with drink recipes. If I'm entertaining, I like to come up with a house drink for the evening, one thing I'll make for the whole evening of the whole month.

Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

I have 4 bedrooms in my house. 1 is for guests, the other 3 are for closets.

We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.

I wish I were less awkward around strangers. I never know what to say when someone asks me who I am and what the hell I'm doing in their house.