House Quotes

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

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

Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

I send messages to the White House continuously.

If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.

The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was.

'House of Leaves' is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but it's also about recovering from fear.

In an earthquake, I shouldn't run out of the house - I should run into it.

Filming is like a house, you have to feel comfortable in it.

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'

There are a lots of clowns in our family - our house is a fun house.

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.

My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

The house is a factory.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

I always have to have breakfast before I leave the house, even if it's 4 A.M. and I'm not hungry.

But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

There is almost nothing in your house that does not tell something about you.

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.

It's not surprising so many people end up with credit-card debts. Saving for your retirement and buying a house are difficult things, and we don't educate people about them at all.

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

I have no friends and I never leave my house.

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

The ego is not master in its own house.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house.

The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.

I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness.

Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel.

Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future.

I was given a White House - well, you will have to ask the White House that. But I asked to attend the White House briefing because I was, you know, because I wanted to report on the activities there.

If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe.

There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.

I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.

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

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.

My husband and I are building a 'green' house in Santa Ynez Valley. We bought 15 acres and we're going to build a house that's green from the ground up.

Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.

I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels.

As of now, I am in control here in the White House.

I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.

What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

What we want is to become masters in our own house.

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

There's not a platinum record hanging in my house anywhere. It doesn't exist here. I'm over it. They're all in the garage, wrapped up in bubblewrap.

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.

What does a house want to be?

I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.

I always say you shouldn't weigh yourself. I don't even have a set of scales in my house.

On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do that and teach and raise a kid and paint the house.

I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot and think Edinburgh is just the most beautiful city.

We're news junkies in my house.