House Quotes

I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest

If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.

There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in

Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.

Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other." Pg 225

It's a miracle I was able to get out of the house today. It's a miracle I'm even wearing pants, a double miracle I remembered to wear shoes.

In front of the coffee tablethere is a neon-pink stump stool, which I bought because my friend Amanda Brooks told me that every house has to have a 'wart,' or one really ugly piece.

Mom and Dad were great, but being asked where I was going every time I left the house - or where I'd been every time I returned - got old quickly.

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

Start locally and build. Start small and grow. Start in your house, then move to your school, your book club, your gym, your church, your temple, your city.

It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.

169 House Democrats signed a letter to the President-elect [Donald Trump] urging him to "rescind this appointment [of Steve Bannon ] immediately."

My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.

Now if you went to someone's house to look for them, you would be a psychopath.

I remember asking my mom, "Do you think that I will ever have enough money to live outside of your house?" And she would be like, "You just never know."

The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

To win the X Factor would mean the world to me and my family. I'd buy mum and dad a house and then I think I would buy myself a car and have a little shopping trip.

Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

Americans, unknowingly, live part of every day in the house that Satch built.

I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.

Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.

The confirmation for both jobs - 'AMC' and 'Smallville' - came through on the same day, so there was a lot of wine flowing in the Hartley house that night!

Mascara is my go-to product before stepping out of the house.

Where are we going?” Annabelle asked, resisting his hold on her wrist. “To the house. If they’re not willing to be witnesses, then it seems I’ll have to debauch you in front of someone else.

If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.

When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279

I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish.

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.

Leinster House does not inspire the brightest ideas.

I'm very moved and very excited. And it just seems to me here are houses and trees and streets that feel so different from New York. I feel very attached to London; I love it.

You needn't consult me about redecorating. I know no female can live two days in a house and leave anything as it was. I shall be much astonished if I can find my way about when I return.

When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

The impact of the downturn is starting to feel very real. House prices and the housing market have been taking the knock for some time and that's affecting people.

Gaddafi's a great bloke. The media only show the bad things. I used to go round his house. His son's a super simple guy. All the Gaddafis are very down to earth.

I go four- wheeling in my truck. I also like to fish, cook, do stuff around my house. I even studied fencing for awhile.

You can see my guns at my apartment. The safe room is a special place... It's good to have a safe room in your house. It's storm-proof; we've got food, store supplies, all kinds of stuff.

If you have a problem, if you have a fire in your house, would you want - don't want your neighbors to give you a hand? That's what we have.

... the time will come when no servant will be hired without a diploma from some training school, and a girl will as much expect to fit herself for house-maid or cook, as for dressmaker or any trade.

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.

I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.

I believe that white frame house is worthy of more than a nod of nostalgia, because the values President Clinton learned there and in Hope formed the core of his political philosophy.

I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!

My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.

I think it was Rose Macaulay who said, "A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."

I wasn't sure if I admired him for feeling everything so hard and fiercely, or if I was contemptuous of him for having so much emotion that he had to spill it out every window of the house.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.