Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Benn

If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.

Tony Benn

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Simon Hoggart

Watching the Commons tribute to Margaret Thatcher was like being suffocated inside a gigantic sticky toffee pudding, but one with nasty bogeys planted inside. There was much of the 'Margaret Thatcher who was lucky enough to know me,' especially from her own side of the House.

Tom Sizemore

I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.

Shirley Jackson

Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.

Shirley Jackson

We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.

Rick Riordan

There will be guards,” Bast said. “And traps. And alarms. You can bet the house is heavily charmed to keep out gods.” “Magicians can do that?” I asked. I imagined a big can of pesticide labeled God-Away.

Rick Riordan

The House is in the house" Chapter 38

Rick Riordan

Stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!

Richard Brautigan

I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 I’m yours ghosts and all.

Tim Gunn

I guess the most famous person I was so extremely exhilarated by being with - and actually sat next to her at a luncheon at the White House - was Mrs. Obama.

Tim McGraw

I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes ma'am.

Steven Wright

I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house.

Steven Wright

One time the power went out in my house and I had to use the flash on my camera to see my way around. I made a sandwich and took fifty pictures of my face. The neighbors thought there was lightning in my house.

Red Buttons

Abraham Lincoln, who said, A house divided... is a condominium. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

Maid Marion, who said to Robin Hood, I will not live in a house with a Little John. Never got a dinner!

Victoria Woodhull

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

Victor Cruz

I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.

Victor Hugo

Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

Victor Hugo

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

Renee Fleming

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

Renee Fleming

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

Thomas Hood

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

Rumi

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

Rumi

Walk patiently through this troubled world, and you will find great treasure. Even though your house may be small, look within it!

Tom Felton

What a house. Turns out they're doing OK, the Malfoy's. However, the interior decorating leaves a lot to be desired. And needless to say, Voldemort isn't the greatest houseguest.

Toni Cade Bambara

When we ever invited the beast to dinner he didn't come in and swipe the napkins and start taking notes on the tablecloth 'bout how to take over the whole house?

Steve Albini

When I'm in a restaurant, I don't eat red meat. It doesn't taste like anything. But if a friend of mine is grilling stuff at his house, its almost always great.

Utada Hikaru

I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.

Uwe Boll

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

Susan Molinari

Every time the word 'breastfeeding' is mentioned, there's a snicker on the House floor. This has been happening since the dawn of creation. Can we finally get a grip on it?

Susanna Clarke

It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.

Sydney Brenner

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.