Famous Quotes & Sayings

We were disappointed he didn't want to come here but we know he has a house in Toronto.

Bruce Schneier

If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.

Brian Selznick

My house had suddenly turned into a hospital ward.

Boyd Holbrook

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

Juvenal

Every great house is full of haughty servants.

Juvenal

He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.

Denis Leary

Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.

Dick Durbin

I hope that Republicans in the House and Mr. Cantor will embrace that as part of immigration reform.

Dick Cavett

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.

Dick Cavett

I always wanted to live in a haunted house.

Dennis Miller

A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods.

Ed Royce

I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.

Earl Campbell

It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.

Elizabeth Montagu

I never invite idiots to my house.

William Shakespeare

But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, How London doth pour out her citizens!

William Shakespeare

Venus smiles not in a house of tears.

Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.

Alan Paton

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

Alan Rickman

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Alan Alda

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.

Al Sharpton

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

Darren Shan

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

Dave Barry

Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox.

Dave Barry

You cannot paint the exterior of your house. You have to take the paint chip down to show the paint-chip Nazis.

Dave Barry

I don't know what you can possibly do for less than $50 to have somebody come in your house.

Carolina Herrera

You have to have curiosity in life. The moment you don't have any more curiosity, then don't do anything. Retire and stay in your house.

Carolina Herrera

You have to have a full-length mirror in your house so you can see what is missing and what you have to add to your look.

Camille Claudel

Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.

Caleb Cushing

I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

Caleb Cushing

The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.

Chris Christie

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.

Chris Christie

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out