Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Sparks

Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.

Muhammad Ali

When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock

Mac Miller

I just kind of kick it at my crib all day because I'm not famous at my house.

Mac Miller

I don't really leave my house too much, 'cause I don't like... it's funny, I don't really like to be high and famous at the same time.

Luke Perry

I go four- wheeling in my truck. I also like to fish, cook, do stuff around my house. I even studied fencing for awhile.

Michael Jackson

My house is about equidistant from the Young's brewery and the Fuller's brewery. This is no accident.

Michael Cunningham

Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.

Melissa Leo

I'm going to show you I haven't given you permission because clearly you're not grown up enough to understand that, not having given you permission, you can't just come look in my house." And I won't know if they're coming and looking or not...so I put a piece of tape over it.

Michel de Montaigne

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Michael K. Simpson

Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses.

Mark Hoppus

Every single day that you walk outside your house is something new and different and exciting.

Marian McPartland

At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.

Nathan Lane

I have my aluminum siding business, and that's going like a house afire.

R. C. Sproul

The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.

Olivia Newton-John

I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.

Olivia Wilde

I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'

Margaret Atwood

I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

Kevin McCloud

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

Kevin McCloud

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

Ken Livingstone

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

Mark Twain

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

Mark Twain

I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

Mark Twain

I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

Paul Prudhomme

I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live.

Paget Brewster

If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.

Paul Stanley

I live in the house bad reviews built.

Paul Merton

If you stay in a house and you go to the bathroom and there is no toilet paper, you can always slide down the banisters. Don't tell me you haven't done it.

Patti Page

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

Oscar Wilde

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

J. K. Rowling

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.