House Quotes

I always like a charity with people who don't speak English because I get them to do all kinds of things around my house.

Sold my house in LA, packed myself up and moved to New York, not knowing anybody. Friends are very hard to make after a certain age.

I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.

It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic.

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.

Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body so that they can return to their most elemental stage.

I don't know if Jared Leto or Leo [DiCaprio] would ever do Fuller House, but you never know.

The worst person to be in the celebrity Big Brother house with would be Peter Andre - cos I hate his Missus.

American families be warned, if the White House doesn't send your jobs overseas, they'll send your kids.

I was in sit-ins to desegregate restaurants and movie houses in the '60s.

When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.

You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

Happiness is not a house where you can live. (But it is a house you can build.)

I love my house. I love my family. I love my animals.

As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends - Dress is a table of your contents.

When each man sets his own house in order, the whole world will be in order.

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.

I just started going to shows. I don't know how submerged I am: I feel guilty that I don't get out more, but I really like being inside the house.

I'm sort of a cavedweller: I miss my house, my yard, my kitchen, my wife. The trees. When I get home, I like to get down into my office neighborhood as soon as I can.

I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.

The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more.

How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.

Are you currently at your house?" he asked. "Um, no," I said. "That was a trick question. I knew the answer, because I am currently at your house.

I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt and it's all started over for me.

Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources.

I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it was the first time we had done it since man walked on the moon.

I have the most incredible parents and they didn't put pressure on me. I grew up in a house and no matter what they thought of things, it was always about my choice.

I remember playing the guitar through the amplifier facing out the window of my house onto the street in the summer time - that was social media in 1992.

I'm just trying to keep things normal around the house, because there's no reason why things shouldn't be normal.

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.

The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.

I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

When you gaze upon the lovely sight. Of twins, arm in arm, asleep at night. Think not that the house has been doubly messed. But that you, as parents, have been doubly blessed.

Congratulations on your well deserved retirement, Wishing you every happiness in the years ahead. No lying about your age, more lying around the house After lying much longer in bed

I have no interest in ever making a movie I didn't write. If they were going to take my house away, then I guess I might have to. But my agent knows not to even bother sending me the scripts.

Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house shutting down the government on my computer. The new delinquent is the hacker.

I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.

I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!

I had pestered [Phil Wood] for a long time. He finally agreed to do it. And I was excited and nervous and he couldn't have been nicer or more supportive from the minute I got to his house.

I think we had a Ben Webster/Gerry Mulligan record... that might have been it. We only had a few records in the house.

Megachurches. I can't be the only one frightened when our houses of worship sound like they could take on Godzilla.

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.

I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he shewed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.