Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arlen Specter

It simply wasn't possible to accommodate the schedule that the White House wanted.

It was a matter of which house was available.

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.

Ellen Barkin

I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house.

Janet Evanovich

Wondering where Ranger was now, when I needed him. Why wasn’t he here, insisting on locking me up in a safe house? Now that my hamster’s cage was clean, I’d be happy to oblige.

Janet Evanovich

Do you have someone watching her house?” (Stephanie) “That kind of surveillance only happens in the movies. We’re so underbudgeted we’re one step away from holding bake sales to pay for toilet paper. (Morelli)

Janet Evanovich

If I let her in I'm doomed. It's like inviting a vampire into your house. Once you've invite them in, that's it, you're good as dead!

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.

Chris Van Allsburg

Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.

Chris O'Dowd

I grew up in a house of forthright women.

Boris Becker

I know what it's like to be married and to live in a house with a garden, but it's not something I'm striving for at the moment.

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.

Jon Stewart

If you are a minority or an interest group, the Democrats will hold the debate at your house. Whereas Republicans take a slightly different approach: they have a big tent - you're just not allowed in it.

Jon Stewart

Megachurches. I can't be the only one frightened when our houses of worship sound like they could take on Godzilla.

Joyce Carol Oates

Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.

Kate Walsh

I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.

Justin Townes Earle

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across.

Louise Erdrich

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

Genevieve Gorder

So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.

Stuart Wilde

It is better that you live in a one-room garret with a leaky roof, than live in a large house, the mortgage payments of which are causing your colon to turn cancerous!

Stevie Smith

Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in? He could have hid in the house.

Steve Cropper

Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.

Stephen Greenblatt

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.

Stephen Gardiner

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

Stephen Gardiner

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

Stephen Gardiner

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

Stephen Gardiner

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

Stephen Gardiner

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

Jimmy Carter

The situation in Gaza is intolerable. Not one destroyed house has been rebuilt Ppl cannot live w the dignity they deserve