House Quotes

There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

The sarin gas is a very primitive gas. You can have it done in the backyard of a house ; it's a very primitive gas. So, it's not something complicated.

Nope. That´s my line. This is my boyfriend´s house, which makes that my line,exclusively.Where is he?" Nora (p. 287)

Partying at a club is very different than when I'm throwing a party at my house. My party's a rage. People rage when they come to my house.

I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.

When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.

I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.

I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.

An old man in a house is a good sign.

To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways in to a big haunted house.

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

We know the legislation that passed the House. It was the worst piece of legislation frankly against working class people that I can remember in my political life in the Congress.

When I was in the House for 16 years, I caucused with the Democrats.

Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.

I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, 'You don't even know how to make a bed.

I loved my kids. And I loved my house, and I loved a lot of things about my life in the 1950s. But there were a lot like me in that era, very overeducated housewives.

A great many persons are able to become Members of this House without losing their insignificance.

As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family ritual.

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

If you're away from your house for a month, by the time you come back there's someone else living in it.

I wanted to give the house back to the parents.

Repeat after me. I promise not to run outside of the house. I promise not to run inside of the house. I promise not to touch, pick up, step on, anything that looks interesting.

Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.

Between [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump's team, I don't see a lot of openings for making real progress.

My house is covered in solar panels, I'm a great believer in all this - we all should be doing this.

A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.

Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don't just get it partly wrong, they get it dead wrong.

Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar.

Something wild can happen to anybody and I caution anybody that walks out on the street, just settle your accounts before you leave the house every day.

I hardly even leave my own house.

I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done.

President Ted Cruz is going to send the feds to his house, take him out and put him on a plane.

If you're involved in an accident and you're at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?

If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

My relationship, my friendships with Grateful Dead, has shaped me. Our house is a shrine to all our musical heroes.

We grew up without a television, so we constantly had music playing in our house.

Hey Dad, will you buy me a flame thrower? Of course not. Don't be silly. Even if I didn't use it in the house?

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

I probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.