Famous Quotes & Sayings

Octavio Paz

The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

When I sing for God, I feel myself in accord with God, and the house of God, Mecca, is right in front of me. And I worship. When I sing for Mohammed, peace be upon him, our prophet, I feel like I am sitting right next to his tomb, Medina, and paying him respect and admitting to myself that I accept his message.

Michael Caine

For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.

Michael Caine

I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

Mary Leakey

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

Michael Chabon

The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness

Marla Sokoloff

We went down for pilot season, I got Full House, and we wound up never leaving.

Ted Cruz

I'm very proud to have joined with conservatives in both the Senate and the House to reform how we target bad guys.

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.

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.

James M. Barrie

Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.

James L. Farmer, Jr.

Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

James Larkin

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

Emmanuel Lewis

The only place I can go where I'm not mobbed is my house.

Emma Watson

I just love music generally. If you come to my house I always have music playing.

Heidi Klum

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.

John McCain

I'm just trying to keep things normal around the house, because there's no reason why things shouldn't be normal.

John Hewson

I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that.

Silvio Berlusconi

The first house is sacred like the family.

The concierge can get their groceries, park their cars, get their houses warmed up or cooled off when they come home.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are.

John Galliano

Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel

John Galliano

Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future

John Galsworthy

How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.

John Dean

Had the Senate or House, or both, censured or somehow warned Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Watergate might have been prevented. Hopefully the Senate will not sit by while even more serious abuses unfold before it.

John Calvin

The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God.

Joe Jonas

I'm a big fan of Tiesto, and Swedish House Mafia are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.

Frank Lloyd Wright

No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Prison house for the soul

George Crabbe

To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.