Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joy Harjo

My house is the red earth . . . .

Karl Lagerfeld

No, I have someone who comes to the house and washes it, puts in the dry shampoo, and takes care if it because I have no time.

Julius Wellhausen

The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.

Kathryn Stockett

Why don't we just build you an house outside Hilly?

Julian Lennon

I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don't like too much security. There's no freedom. I'm a person, not some precious diamond that needs guarding every second.

Maria Semple

What's this?" She pulled out a card and held it away from her face. "I can't read what it says." I took it from her and read it aloud. 1. Beeber Bifocal 2. Twenty Mile House 3. Bee 4. Your escape Fourteen miracles to go.

Maria Semple

One of the main reasons I don't like leaving the house is because I might find myself face to face with a Canadian.

Maggie Stiefvater

I wasn't sure if I admired him for feeling everything so hard and fiercely, or if I was contemptuous of him for having so much emotion that he had to spill it out every window of the house.

Maggie Stiefvater

I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the certainty of a future. I had heard the wolves howling behind the house and remembered how glad I had been to be human.

Macy Gray

The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.

Haruki Murakami

Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.

John Bright

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

Luis Gutierrez

Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.

John Boorman

What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family...

John Boehner

House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.

You can't put a poor person in a house needing repairs.

Steve Jones

You can see it won't be very long at all before they're turning a house into a home.

Matthew Bourne

I once went through the dustbin outside David Bowie's house.

Marina Abramovic

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.

I'm going to look at a house on Grandin Road. Do you know where that is?

Michael Chertoff

I'm not going to judge others, ... I've got my own house to put in order.

Krysten Ritter

I'm a weirdo. I don't leave the house unless I have to.

Kevin Costner

I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie.

Karl Marx

Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.

Jules Verne

My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.

This was like we could get right into the house right before the event,

They let people sign up. We've yet to see an offer of a house or trailer. As I understand it, they don't have any space.

They won't let you come in the house because you'll desecrate it. They'd have to rededicate the house.

Gerald R. Ford

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

Jeremy Renner

I'll always build houses.

Glenn Close

There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

Paul Auster

It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.