Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Bowen

Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us--that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions--they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate ...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.

Dominic Monaghan

My brain kind of rolls pretty fast when I'm conscious. It's constantly looking for stuff to do. Like if I'm in my house and I'm hanging out, I tend to be listening to music whilst watching a film whilst sending e-mails.

Jack Layton

the only leader in this House that will not compromise.

Kathy Griffin

Look, you guys, I know I'm not Courteney Cox. But I'm telling you, the house is better than me. They were like, 'I don't think so.'

John Ford

So many houses - you feel like there's a lot of unusable space. We don't have that.

She was really a nice person. She had us out to her house any number of times.

She was a young, 21-year-old White House intern.

She was always playing with her little toys in the courtyard of my family's house there.

Ed Royce

I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.

Earl Campbell

It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.

Elizabeth Montagu

I never invite idiots to my house.

Benjamin Franklin

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

Benjamin Franklin

Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.

Ben Affleck

I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.

Barbara Tuchman

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

Avicii

When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.

Avicii

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

Bella Abzug

This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

Bam Margera

Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.

Aung San Suu Kyi

When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.

Arundhati Roy

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

Boy George

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

Brian Robertson

Sure I've got an awesome overdraft but as a perk I've got someone personally assigned to look after me. When you spend £45,000 on doing up your house you don't have to speak to someone in a call centre.

Brendon Urie

I don't have any pets, so I get to walk around the house naked. So I'm more free.

Bonnie McKee

I love really kitschy bad movies. Showgirls is one of my favorites. I saw House of Versace and died. I'm a big fan of made-for-TV movies because those are instant classics, naturally.

Arto Lindsay

It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.

David Brooks

Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.

David Brooks

Decision-making power, whether it's on foreign affairs or domestic affairs, is concentrated in the White House in a reasonably small circle.

Astrid Lindgren

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

Arnold Palmer

I’m particularly proud of anything the House and the Senate agree on,

Denis Leary

Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.

Dick Durbin

I hope that Republicans in the House and Mr. Cantor will embrace that as part of immigration reform.