House famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
-- A. E. Housman -
The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
-- A. N. Wilson -
Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
-- Aaron Neville -
She frowned."You're not very friendly." I let out a short laugh."What?I'm not friendly to a ghost who floats into my house and starts touching me?Well,excuse my rudeness but this is a little disturbing.
-- Abbi Glines -
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near!
-- Abigail Williams -
May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
-- Abraham Cowley -
He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
-- Abu Bakr -
I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.
-- Ace Frehley -
When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent goes right to your stomach. Mary's house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace. For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
-- Adam Rapp -
I think when I bought a house, that's when I thought I felt like that's a grown up thing to do.
-- Adam Sandler -
I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family's been...we've been enjoying each other's comedy for years.
-- Adam Sandler -
I've always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B'nai B'rith at our house.
-- Adam Sandler -
Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.
-- Adi Shankara -
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
-- Adolf Loos -
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
-- Adolf Loos -
The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
-- Adolf Loos -
The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
-- Adolf Loos -
With gas cookers and chip pans in every kitchen, the chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their houses down. The second technique was the ever popular chimney fire and number three had to be the drunken cigarette drop on the carpet. Mind you, why they'd be cooking chips at this hour was anyone's guess.
-- Adrian McKinty -
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
-- Aeschylus -
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
-- Aeschylus -
House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.
-- Agnes Macphail -
The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
-- Agnes Martin -
Hey, Nana... people's feelings change easily... what you see is a house of cards... nothing's sure, and nothing lasts forever.
-- Ai Yazawa -
When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.
-- Aida Turturro -
I'd sneak out of the house to meet girls at 3:30 a.m.
-- Aidan Quinn -
I don't have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don't have anything plugged into it, though. I watch DVDs.
-- Aimee Teegarden -
The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.
-- Al Gore -
My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
-- Al McGuire -
If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
-- Al Sharpton -
The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
-- Al Sharpton -
Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
-- Al Sharpton -
In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal -
I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
-- Alan Alda -
Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their moral perversity to awaken the American people to the tyrannical spirit that envelopes the Clinton White House.
-- Alan Keyes -
My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
-- Alan King -
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
-- Alan Paton -
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
-- Alan Paton -
If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.
-- Alan Rickman -
Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.
-- Alan Sugar -
in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.
-- Alan Weisman -
I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.
-- Alana Stewart -
I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.
-- Alanis Morissette -
I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
-- Alben W. Barkley -
I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".
-- Albert Camus -
How would you like to have a thousand brilliantly colored cliff swallows keeping house in the eaves of your barn, and gobbling up insects over your farm at the rate of 100,000 per day? There are many Wisconsin farmsteads where such a swallow-show is a distinct possibility.
-- Aldo Leopold -
When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.
-- Alec Baldwin -
London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.
-- Alec Waugh -
For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house, it was to salvage photos.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
I remember reading Disturbia, one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?
-- Alex Pettyfer -
Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?
-- Alex Pettyfer -
It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.
-- Alexander Berkman -
If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me.
-- Alexander Downer -
My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.
-- Alexander Downer -
Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so. As for now, I'm in control here, in the White House, pending the return of the vice president and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.
-- Alexander Haig -
Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But there remains to be mentioned a positive advantage . . . I allude to the circumstance of uniformity in the time of elections for the House of Representatives. It is more than possible, that this uniformity may be found by experience to be of great importance to the public welfare; both as a security against the perpetuation of the same spirit in the body; and as a cure for the diseases of faction.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect of the maxims that uphold public credit, and justify the solicitude manifested by the House on this point, would be an improper intrusion on their time and patience.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?
-- Alexander Herzen -
If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.
-- Alexander Smith -
This is a private home." "And?" "And I can't enter without an invitation." She jerked her head up. "You're kidding me?" "No." "You don't live in a crypt and you can't turn into a bat, but you have to have an invitation to enter a house?" Abby hissed. A reluctant amusement softened the flat eyes. "You wanted me to be vampirish." "Not when it's inconvenient.
-- Alexandra Ivy -
I love leaving the house in a new outfit; I don't feel the pressure at all.
-- Alexandra Roach -
I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.
-- Alexei Sayle -
I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.
-- Alexis Denisof -
Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.
-- Alfie Kohn -
I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. - Julia Louis
-- Alfred Dreyfus -
I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.
-- Alger Hiss -
When one stops working at the height of one's career, it's just stupid not to say, 'I want to make sure I have a house.'
-- Ali MacGraw -
Yea, when mortality dissolves,  Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens  Is lighted by the smile of God!
-- Alice Cary -
From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.
-- Alice Cooper -
It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.
-- Alice Hamilton -
I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to follow, it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while.
-- Alice Munro -
Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.
-- Alice Munro -
There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe this.
-- Alice Munro -
... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
-- Alice Walker -
These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.
-- Allan Bloom -
I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the street from my house. I saw every comedy or science fiction movie that came out. My kids love going to the movies, but 3D scares them.
-- Allen Covert -
The Republicans in the House and Senate took the district that I firmly represent, 22 in south Florida, from a D plus one to a D plus five almost a D plus six district, which means you are given a five to six percent registration advantage to Democrats. They drew in more Democrats into the district I represent.
-- Allen West -
Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.
-- Ally Carter -
Lord, if Thou knowest that I shall find, on leaving the house, even through obedience, an occasion of offending Thee, I conjure Thee to take away my life here, where Thou are really present, for Thou solely art my life, and I prefer a thousand deaths to causing Thee the slightest displeasure.
-- Alphonsus Rodriguez -
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.
-- Alvar Aalto -
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.
-- Alvar Aalto -
It's nice to have a boyfriend, but it's even nicer to own your house when you're 21.
-- Amber Riley -
Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
People who live in seven houses shouldn't throw stones
-- Amy Klobuchar -
I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
-- Amy Tan -
When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.
-- Amy Tan -
You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.
-- Amy Winehouse -
Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.
-- Anais Nin -
I have 4 bedrooms in my house. 1 is for guests, the other 3 are for closets.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.
-- Andrea Gibson
