Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.

His house was exceedingly inventive and modern, even by today's standards.

By the time the house is built, we'll be able to take it and give (qualified homeowners) a 99-year lease.

Miguel de Cervantes

By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.

But I told her the longer she had to wait, the better the house was going to look.

But I think the houses will be rehabbed instead of being torn,

Harriet Van Horne

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.

Harry Belafonte

Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.

Harold MacMillan

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

Tom Fitton

I'm not sure what the Secret Service logs are going to tell us, but they will probably tell more than what the White House has said.

Mary McCarthy

I'm not worried about my ring, or my house, even though it's not insured. I just want to get to my daughter's house in Georgia.

Maud Welzen

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and at the moment I listen a lot to house music.

If the past is any precedent, they have planned safe houses and lying low, letting the first dragnet pass over head.

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.

He's skipping around the house and playing in the snow. I haven't seen this side of him in a while.

He stays in the house and plays with the kids. He's just a lapdog the rest of the time.

House threw well enough to win. The first time he pitched was two weeks ago.

Houses were just picked up off their foundations and set back down.

Houses that are priced right are still selling.

HOUSELESS, adj. Having paid all taxes on household goods.

He's only been in the house about a month. It didn't take him long to mess it up.

Sandra Tsing Loh

I don't know how it's going for my sisters, but as my 40s and Verizon bills and mortgage payments roll on, I seem to have an ever more recurring 1950s housewife fantasy.

Jack Kirby

I'd had a belly-full of being subservient. I had to find something else to do, and I did. I went to the animation houses. I went to new fields.

Jack Dempsey

I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.

J. D. Salinger

The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.

Emily Procter

It's a very weird thing. When you see your house naked, you feel very protective of it and of the people who lived here before.

It's an open question whether or not White House can maintain the momentum it's had.

Dan Savage

I wanted to write about the idea of a multi-generational household because Americans don't live like that anymore, ... In writing about that place, I had to write about my great-grandparents' marriage, my grandparents' marriage, my parents' marriage.

The water in our house was about 28 to 30 feet. It went up to the third floor.

The variable rate mortgages increased house payments by as much as 50 percent for some people.

They went house by house and assessed damage.