Famous Quotes & Sayings

John F. Kennedy

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

Jon Stewart

If you are a minority or an interest group, the Democrats will hold the debate at your house. Whereas Republicans take a slightly different approach: they have a big tent - you're just not allowed in it.

Jon Stewart

Megachurches. I can't be the only one frightened when our houses of worship sound like they could take on Godzilla.

Joyce Carol Oates

Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.

Kate Walsh

I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.

Justin Townes Earle

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across.

Laurie Helgoe

Introverts tend to internalize problems. In other words, we place the source of problems within and blame ourselves. Though introverts may also externalize and see others as the problem, it's more convenient to keep the problem "in house." Internalizers tend to be reliable and responsible, but we can also be very hard on ourselves.

Laurie Halse Anderson

It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.

Theresa May

I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.

Terry Gross

It's been reported - in fact, The New York Times has reported that intelligence agencies have told the White House that they now have, quote, "high confidence" that the Russian government was behind the hack.

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.

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.

Stephen Gardiner

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

Stephen Gardiner

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

Stephen Gardiner

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

Stephen Fry

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

St. Jerome

Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.

Rudolf Nureyev

The only critic is a full house.

Ruby Wax

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

Sam Smith

I actually have OCD really bad, and it's getting a bit worse at the moment. I have to check taps... before I leave the house, to make sure I've checked everything in case it floods.

Rush Limbaugh

If I get married again, I'm just going to buy the woman a house and break up with her, because that will be the end result anyway.

Rush Limbaugh

It is clear that many of [Republicans] do not want to try to keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House. So if it's not important to keep her out of the White House, why is it important to elect you?

Tiesto

I listen to all kinds of music, but I really like deep house.

Ranulph Fiennes

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

Robert Novak

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

Robert Cormier

That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else.

Robert Pattinson

I'm afraid of buying a house or anything, 'cause if there's one paparazzi outside for one day, then they'll never leave.

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.