Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Speaker of the House of Rwanda is usually the position that moves into the presidency.

Richard Wright

Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!

Ron Chernow

Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

Truman Capote

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

Raymond Chandler

I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.

Rick Riordan

You're a stalker with hooves." "I am not! I followed her to the Big House and hid in a bush and watched the whole thing.

Otto Hermann Kahn

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

P. C. Cast

I'm here because she's here, and she belongs to me. ~Rephaim

P. C. Cast

He's not the brightest crayola in the pack.

Paul Lynde

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.

Martin Amis

No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily in front of Charles Bronson.

Rachel Caine

There's a ghost in this house! An unquiet spirit!" Unquiet spirit?" Shane said under his breath. "Is that politically correct for pissed off? You know, like Undead American or something?

The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.

Peter Slipper

The importance of the House is... far more important than my future.

Polly Bergen

The secret Ive lived by ever since I started earning money is this: Always buy a house with an extra bedroom adjoining the master. And thats always my closet.

Plutarch

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.

Natsuki Takaya

Sometimes it feels like the whole world is conspiring to destroy my house... " - Shigure Sohma

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House.

Victor Hugo

Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

Victor Hugo

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

Robert Frost

Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.

Renee Fleming

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

Renee Fleming

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

Thomas Hood

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

Thomas S. Monson

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.

Thomas S. Monson

As we touch the temple and love the temple, our lives will reflect our faith. As we go to the holy house, as we remember the covenants we make therein, we will be able to bear every trial and overcome each temptation.

Thomas Reid

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

Robert Grosseteste

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.

Sarah Dessen

So I learned another system: When in doubt, keep it out – out of earshot, out of the house – even if this meant, really, just keeping it in.

Sarah Dessen

So it just wasn't in my house. Anywhere, I looked like I knew about the toilet.

Sandra Day O'Connor

My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.

Sandra Bullock

I realized that being an actor was something I never owned up to, in a weird way. I would be a hostess or a waitress or a house restorer before I would consider myself an actor, because I never thought I was good enough.

Roger Scruton

The relation of the soul to the body is like that of a house to its bricks. The soul is a principle of organisation, which governs the flesh and endows it with meaning. It is no more separable from the flesh than is the house from its bricks, even if the soul may survive the gradual replacement of every bodily part.