House Quotes

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity.

The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.

A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.

There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house.' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

I do have some weeks coming up in the summer where I will actually be in my house, and I love working on new music and all of that.

I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands.

You have three people in the White House that are in love with eugenics or whatever it is you would call it today.

I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost a religious sense of respect for the natural world.

You can't have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I'd rather have the ten dogs.

More than anything I want to be able to go back to Cuba, to have a house to visit there, to know my roots. Then, at last, I could sing for my people.

The world looks a totally different place after two wins. I can even enjoy watching Blind Date or laugh at Noel's House Party.

Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction.

Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book.

How many presidents, do you think, ever said to another guy: 'I can't believe we're doing this in the White House'?

Let's start and build a House that works for the people, because this is the people's House.

People who live in glass houses must reeeeeallly trust their neighbors.

The storm dropped a house on her head.

At my house I have a full-size time machine that I’ve built over a couple of years... I love looking at people’s faces when they walk into my office. They’re literally astounded.

I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in fifth grade about an unrequited crush.

If you always use your stapler in one place, keep it there, instead of thinking that all the office supplies should go in one place. I've moved a lot of things around in my house because of that.

When we were in the Munich house, sometimes [Adolf Hitler] would call the house line after one of their fights. They would talk and then Eva [Braun] would emerge from her room and behave normally.

I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I'll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.

It's very important to older male homosexuality in Los Angeles to have a pool, so that cute boys will come to your house and swim around in the pool.

Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.

Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.

When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line when you hit that number - maybe own a house or be married.

We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me swiftly in front of Jem. "Yawl write, hear?" he bawled after us.

One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.

Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed to be kept from the break of day ceremony of Blessing in the church.

Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.

It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down.

I live in a small country in Europe - Finland - and I don't speak English well and I had nothing to do with publishing houses in the West. I lived in complete isolation.

I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.

It's fascinating to imagine two successful writers in one house. But when you think about it, it isn't very unusual. In fact, so many writers have writer spouses.

Stopping at her house is a neighbor boy with evil on his mind, cause he's been peeking in Angie's room at night through her window blind.

Life is too short to drink the house wine.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the media could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan.

I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well.

I have one show biz picture in my house. It's with Mr. Hope. I have asked for one autograph in my life: Mr. Hope's.

When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.

In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory.

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.