Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aung San Suu Kyi

When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.

Arundhati Roy

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

When the speaker of the house comes, you listen.

We're confirming that houses have been lost; we can't give you the numbers.

Alexandra Stoddard

The rooms that are lived in are the ones we find most comforting.

Alexandra Roach

I love leaving the house in a new outfit; I don't feel the pressure at all.

Samuel Coleridge

Life is but thought; so think I will, That youth and I are house mates still

Ricky Gervais

My favourite shows of the year are House of Cards, the Scandinavian versions of The Killing and The Bridge, and my guilty pleasure is everything MMA. Ultimate Fighter is amazing.

Tom Holland

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

Brent Musburger

Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.

Bret Harte

Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

Bram Stoker

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

Bram Stoker

Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.

Boy George

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

Brian Robertson

Sure I've got an awesome overdraft but as a perk I've got someone personally assigned to look after me. When you spend £45,000 on doing up your house you don't have to speak to someone in a call centre.

Brendon Urie

I don't have any pets, so I get to walk around the house naked. So I'm more free.

Brian Selznick

My house had suddenly turned into a hospital ward.

Boyd Holbrook

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

Juvenal

Every great house is full of haughty servants.

Juvenal

He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.

Keeley Hawes

I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things.

Chris Cornell

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.

Dennis Hastert

On Capitol Hill, House Republicans have been doing our part. We've been hard at work developing policies that will help empower all Americans. We're beginning to see results. We reduced taxes for everyone.

Demetri Martin

If you remove a treehouse from a tree, than it's just a shitty house. Sometimes when i'm in a shitty house, I like to imagine that it's in a tree, than it's like Woah, this house is amazing.

Dean Koontz

Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Elizabeth Taylor

I'm loud and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody's got to, but I am not a monster. I'm not.

Eli Manning

I've always tried to be the person who says things no one else wants to say. I've always kept it in house, as opposed to going to the papers.

Barbara Corcoran

If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.

Ashley Rickards

I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.

Ashley Madekwe

When someone comes to visit me, they have to bring tea - you can't stay in my house if you don't bring me tea.