Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Stevens

I'm sad to say I've been under really tremendous pressure from my side and from the House side to wind this up, and we have wound it up,

I haven't been in this position for a while. We've lost Kevin House (to an injury) and that has hurt. We just can't seem to get over the hump.

Moon Unit Zappa

I remember letting someone in the house who had a gun. And when I was about 10, letting someone else in who was just out of the insane asylum.

The Years

I remember a place... a town... a house like a lot of houses... a yard like a lot of other yards... on a street like a lot of other streets. And the thing is, after all these years, I sill look back... with wonder.

I love the house and my kids think I'm nuts. If the time comes, I'll think about it and make a decision.

Phil Harris

It's not about getting houses built. It's about people.

Joy Williams

It's really been rough. We just moved in a house with me and my kid, and everything is gone.

She likes irises. She had a big iris garden. She had a lot of them in Tracy and at her house in Manteca but not so much at the trailer.

At times I thought, 'Boy I have this under control.' Then I'd go through the house and see something, a little ornament, and you don't know how many times I just sat there and bawled like a baby. You learn that this is going to happen.

What better place to stop than the very house my great-great-great-great-grandfather stayed in?

What are they getting for houses in Portland? $250,000? Why?

We sold our house in New Jersey that year for $112,000; it has since sold for more than $1 million.

Judd Gregg

We just look at the House sometimes and shake our heads.

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.

Silvio Berlusconi

The first house is sacred like the family.

John Selden

The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?

Jon Bon Jovi

There's not a platinum record hanging in my house anywhere. It doesn't exist here. I'm over it. They're all in the garage, wrapped up in bubblewrap.

Luigi Pirandello

Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.

James Anthony Froude

I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There is a power stronger than such a one; and it is possible to walk unscathed even in the burning furnace.

Henry David Thoreau

It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?

Henry David Thoreau

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

Malcolm X

There were always more Negroes in the field than there was Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn't get nothing but what was left of the insides of the hog. They call 'em "chitt'lin'" nowadays. In those days they called them what they were: guts. That's what you were -- a gut-eater. And some of you all still gut-eaters.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Charlotte Gilman

A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband." (on the term "housewife")

These are household names that everyone will love to see and that we are proud to present.

This is our house now. And we're moving past it.

This is a house that could have been demolished. We take pride in saving a piece of Pittsburgh's architectural history.

This is a house that could have been demolished, ... We take pride in saving a piece of Pittsburgh's architectural history.

George F. Will

All God's chillun got shoes or can get them in Mrs Marcos's closet, which is large enough to house Mr and Mrs Duvalier, itinerant nonlaborers.