Famous Quotes & Sayings

This has been a partisan process on the part of the House managers. In the House, they had the votes. They didn't think they needed to talk to witnesses.

They traded their houses for the big house.

They secured our houses from the minute it happened. There was not one speck of looting done on Georgetown Street." ()

Neill Blomkamp

A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.

A lot of the psychology of savings is that you're prepared for an emergency. And if your house is worth 10 percent more, then you feel you're prepared.

Jose Carreras

Americans, they have an incredible operatic tradition: the Metropolitan Opera House is - if not the most prestigious - one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world for over 100 years.

Ned Yost

They need that adrenaline, they need that packed house to really get going.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze

You really own them at the personal level, not the household level.

Joe Barton

This is a way for the House to send a signal on this particular treaty.

They had never known anything but the tracks, never lived in a house before. But they are incredibly smart.

Byron Dorgan

They didn't have the stomach to take the White House on.

Brit Hume

You don't get many scoops out of the White House -- no one does.

Karen Allen

You don't want to be moving into a house and have nothing.

This part of the house is about 150 years old, so we tried to do as little as possible to maintain its authenticity.

It sends a signal to the Senate that the House is ready to do this the way it was proposed.

It's 100 percent better than it was. There's a lot more help, a lot more opportunity. You don't have to have a lot of money to get a house today.

It (was) completely unlikely that the House (would) slow down. The train is on the track on the House side.

Hayden Panettiere

I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible.

Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

H. L. Mencken

For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.

Jerry Hall

I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

Jeremy Bentham

How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.

Esha Gupta

I clean my own utensils, my house and I even travel alone. I don't know what the life of a superstar is like.

Ernest Hemingway

It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.

Eudora Welty

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.

Flannery O'Connor

There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.