Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Reid

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

Robert Grosseteste

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.

Rob Lowe

My life is really based around my house and my friends and my family at the moment, and has been for a while now.

Roald Dahl

The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.

Tracy Chevalier

It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.

Sarah Dessen

So I learned another system: When in doubt, keep it out – out of earshot, out of the house – even if this meant, really, just keeping it in.

Sarah Dessen

So it just wasn't in my house. Anywhere, I looked like I knew about the toilet.

Sandra Day O'Connor

My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.

Sandra Bullock

I realized that being an actor was something I never owned up to, in a weird way. I would be a hostess or a waitress or a house restorer before I would consider myself an actor, because I never thought I was good enough.

Roger Scruton

The relation of the soul to the body is like that of a house to its bricks. The soul is a principle of organisation, which governs the flesh and endows it with meaning. It is no more separable from the flesh than is the house from its bricks, even if the soul may survive the gradual replacement of every bodily part.

Robert T. Bakker

Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested.

Robert Smith

When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

Robert Ley

The Fuhrer is always right. Every last citizen must say this.

Sara Paretsky

But what I've learned is, when your adrenaline is flowing, you can do a lot. I'm not very physical, but once some punks were trying to break into my house and I chased them down.

Willa Ford

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

Washington Irving

Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture.

Will Carleton

Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.

Wilkie Collins

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

Wilkie Collins

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

Wilkie Collins

I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led to the wrong tendencies I was in the wrong place at the wrong time For the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme On the wrong day of the wrong week I used the wrong method with the wrong technique Wrong

Winslow Homer

All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I was always a good housekeeper. Whenever I divorced I always kept the house.

Zach Wamp

In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.

Zach Braff

I find my movie props in my neighbors houses.

Wendell Berry

One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.

Warren Cuccurullo

I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.

Walter Bagehot

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

William Blake

I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

Joseph Hume

What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House.

Joseph Chamberlain

London is the clearing-house of the world.

Kim Kardashian

I always say you shouldn't weigh yourself. I don't even have a set of scales in my house.