Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Stephen King

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

Stephen King

We're news junkies in my house.

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.

Ron Chernow

Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

Truman Capote

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

Raymond Chandler

I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.

Rick Riordan

You're a stalker with hooves." "I am not! I followed her to the Big House and hid in a bush and watched the whole thing.

Veronica Roth

The Amity Established this place as a safe house. No conflict allowed." "The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy," says Marcus. "How do you stop conflict without conflict?

Vince Vaughn

I don't like dates. If you meet someone that you like then meet them out somewhere. That's good because that's comfortable. I don't like the feeling of going to pick someone up that I don't know that well at their house and then take them to kind of a formal restaurant.

Vince Vaughn

If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.

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.

Taye Diggs

I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house,

Scott Westerfeld

You can't blame a match for a house made of straw, Alek.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.

Stephen Bayley

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

Stephen Chbosky

I just listened to the music, and breathed in the day, and remembered things. Things like walking around the neighborhood and looking at the houses and the lawns and the colorful trees and having that be enough.

Willa Ford

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

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.

Virgil Goode

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.

William Cobbett

But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious, happy, or free.

William Cowper

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

Vartan Gregorian

The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.

Van Jones

There's no higher honor, in my estimation, than being asked to serve in the White House.

Tyson Chandler

You don't want anybody walking into your house and taking a Gatorade out of your refrigerator, you've got to get in there and protect it.

Wilfrid Laurier

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered.

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.