Top 30 Richard House Quotes
#1. He calls these projects gophers, as in, go-for-the-money (don't-deliver-the-project).
Richard House
#2. The secret to disappearing is to stay where you are.
Richard House
#3. A human has seven litres of blood. This they had taught him in the army. Seven litres, which, with an arterial cut will vent a fountain two or three metres, and take three to four minutes to bleed out.
Richard House
#4. Because what matters, what counts, isn't how well you are loved, but how able you are to give love.
Richard House
#5. Telling stories to make himself into something that he isn't. We all do it. We all tell stories to make ourselves look better.
Richard House
#6. You think those cats care? You think other animals watch each other go at it and it does something for them?"
"Like cat-porn.
Richard House
#7. I definitely saw 'The Kill,' when I started it, as an entertainment.
Richard House
#8. Wickedness is not as interesting as you might hope.
Richard House
#9. They believed the devil would rise from here," she said. "I'm serious. They thought he would come up through the cracks in the ground, that there would be an earthquake and he would rise. Dust. Fire. The end of the world. They calculated the day and built churches to protect themselves.
Richard House
#10. What you have to understand, he says, is the mentality of the Iraqi versus the mentality of the average Westerner.
Richard House
#12. And then ... perhaps someone will write a book about making a film about a story that is taken from this book which is taken from a real-life story that was copied from a story in a book. You know?
Richard House
#13. You are the stories you tell, whatever their basis in fact or experience. It's who you are.
Richard House
#15. The older they became the less time they spent together, and the less time they spent together the less dissatisfaction they felt toward each other.
Richard House
#16. Cats aren't as friendly as they appear: fur, teeth, instinct, selfishness and cunning. Essentially they're just big rats.
Richard House
#17. A tongue in a bag. Teeth. A room drenched in blood.
Richard House
#18. She read the last chapter of her book because she didn't want to start something that would end badly.
Richard House
#19. Correggio, Caravaggio, Titian, Tintoretto. In them she saw distance and cruelty. Bodies pierced, flayed, crucified. A parade of morbid flesh.
Richard House
#20. The worst thing you can do to someone, the very worst thing, is to keep them hoping.
Richard House
#21. Pakosta shrugged. "The problem is how they drive. People fall asleep. Lose the road. They won't slow down or stop. I'm sick of picking dogs out of fenders.
Richard House
#22. It wasn't my intention ever to leave Chicago, that's for sure.
Richard House
#23. At some point the body offers only disappointment.
Richard House
#24. When I first started writing, I wrote a book called 'Bruiser,' and it was pretty much set in Chicago.
Richard House
#25. They weren't a couple. They were two people making do.
Richard House
#26. When I started writing the third book, 'The Kill,' the intention was just to write a thriller, a crime novel for myself, really, in which there would be no body, no solution - where you would look at an event from different people's perspectives.
Richard House
#27. More often than not it's the mascara and lipstick combination that tips the balance. These military wives could do with some lessons. Seriously. Why would you leave the house looking like a monkey had a party on your face?
Richard House
#28. ...WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY
...that counts?
...that carries meaning?
...that made the day worthwhile?
...what will you do tomorrow?
Richard House
#29. If you look hard enough at any system, at some point it is going to reveal its patterns, habits, and operations.
Richard House
#30. So why are you here?" Watts asked Santo.
"Because, Paul, is it Paul? I'm here to put the f in freedom.
Richard House
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
