House But Quotes

#1. Women don't have a say in my house. But, just between us, don't do what you did during supper last time in front of her again." "You mean when I threw my fork at that rat?" "No. I mean when you hit it, even in the dark.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#2. A young girl would go into the wood as trustingly as Red Riding Hood to her granny's house but this light admits no ambiguities and, here, she will be trapped in her own illusion because everything in the woods is exactly as it seems.

Angela Carter

#3. I've given up my living room, guest room, job, career, heterosexuality and my stance on no pets in the house, but I'm not giving up my room. I'm drawing a line.

Dani Alexander

#4. My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.

Ted Allen

#5. He drank deeply from his orange juice - really drank to savor it so that for a minute or two nothing existed in the house but his enjoyment.

Jeff VanderMeer

#6. We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.

Jimmy Carter

#7. Mom was just teasing when she asked whether I felt safe being left alone in a haunted house. But now I know: once you move into one, you're never really alone again.

Paige McKenzie

#8. I guess I'm part of the art house, but we really have to shake up our ideas, because we're kind of self-parodying ourselves. We go places commercial cinema doesn't go, but sometimes it's to our own detriment.

Peter Mullan

#9. But the original was there as well - more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep within my own heart. One that had been locked so tight for so long that I was afraid to even try it for fear of what might be on the other side

Sarah Dessen

#10. What's thinking? You live in a grandly appointed house, but spend all your time rummaging around in the attic for any little trinket you hadn't known was there.

James Richardson

#11. I love going to all kinds of movies, I screen DVDs in my house, but I go to the theatre a lot in the afternoon. I don't get bugged because there aren't many people around.

Danny DeVito

#12. I see so many people get so wrapped up in wanting to get a bigger SUV or a bigger house. But then I think, 'My God, I could have been born a woman in the Congo.'

Janine Di Giovanni

#13. I didn't really imagine a girly chandelier in here when I built the house, but you've got good taste." He winked. "Of course I do. I picked you, didn't I?" I teased, then crossed the space to him.

Aria Cole

#14. Houses don't clean themselves, she'd mutter. Sometimes she cleaned the bits she had just cleaned. It wasn't like living in a house, but more a question hovering over the surfaces.

Rachel Joyce

#15. I'm not interested in placing my signature on a house but would rather it be a signature of the place it's located.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

#16. The beauty of a house by the lake side in the middle of wilderness can best be appreciated not by those who permanently live in the house but by the travellers passing by!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. It is bad enough to have a bear in your house, but it does not seem to me to mend matters if you call in a pack of ferocious wolves as well.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#18. May we live here like strangers and make the world not a house, but an inn, in which we sup and lodge, expecting to be on our journey tomorrow.

Charles Spurgeon

#19. But Penny was born perfect and copper-bright, just like her name. From the minute she came home from the hospital, she was a really happy baby. Mom truly did carry a little bundle of joy into the house. But

Sharon M. Draper

#20. An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly.

Gautama Buddha

#21. I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.

Quentin Blake

#22. I thought I'd saved Kayden that night at the pool house, but I was wrong. I just bought him time until the next windstorm swept through.

Jessica Sorensen

#23. Bush is a frat boy in the White House but we've had that before. But I wasn't one of those people that was threatening to leave the country. By the way none of those people have left the country. Alec Baldwin is still here.

Harry Shearer

#24. My mother was a master juggler. If you ask her, she'll say she was a wreck. There's plenty of screaming that went on in the house, but I think it was necessary just to be heard. There were eight children!

Sarah Jessica Parker

#25. Mr. President, you're entitled as a president to your own airplane, and to your own house, but not to your own facts.

Mitt Romney

#26. Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.

Jerome Kagan

#27. That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#28. The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.

Keith Thibodeaux

#29. All I'm saying is that you can run away from a town or a house, but I'm not so sure you can run away from your home.

Susan Gregg Gilmore

#30. Sometimes, I pretend to be a ninja spy when I'm walking through my house..but I always blow my cover when I run into the wall.

Dreamer Girl

#31. In Georgia, there was a eucalyptus tree in the wood across from Hattie's house, but the plant had been hard to come by in the Philadelphia winter.

Ayana Mathis

#32. Here was my lesson in the reach of veterinary medicine, in how an animal doctor may not be the one standing up when disaster strikes and someone shouts, 'Is there a doctor in the house?' but occasionally, if he or she is lucky, a vet can help heal a sick loved one.

Nick Trout

#33. I drove nice cars, I got a nice house. But now I'm steady missing you like a strikeout

Drake

#34. The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

Jodi Picoult

#35. It is a bizarre thought that in this [U.S. 2008] presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House we might have a black man in the White House but if either of them had said they were atheists neither of them would have had a hope in hell.

Julian Barnes

#36. Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.

Jane Green

#37. One was an ancient tortoiseshell cat with arthritis, who creaked around the house--but when Aunt Sibby flickered her fingers and crooned, Miminy, miminy, tall-as-a-chi-mi-ny, danced on his hind legs like a kitten.

Jane Louise Curry

#38. I do like nice things; we do live in a great house, but I don't choose my friends by how much money they have or what labels they're wearing.

Heather Dubrow

#39. My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used to open for Sam Cooke. There was always music in our house, but there wasn't much art around.

Carrie Mae Weems

#40. When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.

Olga Kurylenko

#41. People will watch you build a house, but won't pass you a brick. And once your home is built, they want to come inside for dinner.

Andrea L'Artiste

#42. The street in the center of town was Butts road. I stole the sign and told the audience, this must be where the assholes live. I also had a Neighborhood Crime Watch - it takes about 20 seconds to break into a house but it took me an hour to unbolt this sign.

Carrot Top

#43. I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.

Burn Gorman

#44. Somebody broke into my house once, this is a good time to call the police, but mm mm, nope. The house was too nice. It was a real nice house, but they'd never believe i lived in it. They'd be like 'He's still here!

Dave Chappelle

#45. I bought Doc Martens when I was 13, and I wore them pretty much every day until I was 20. They stank, and my dad wouldn't even let them in the house, but I was completely in love with them.

Suki Waterhouse

#46. I like Barack Obama as a person. He's articulate, he knows sports, his brother-in-law's a coach. He always has the athletes to the White House. But I don't know about some of his policies and some of these people in Congress.

Pete Rose

#47. I'm probably one of the only people who has voted for the speaker of the House but didn't serve in Congress.

Martha McSally

#48. We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.

Marina Abramovic

#49. In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.

Gustavo Dudamel

#50. Do you suppose we can take that as evidence? We could cut out the sections."
Jonas snorted, "You can try taking a saw to that house, but personally, I'm not about to get anywhere near it with anything resembling a weapon.

Christine Feehan

#51. I have bought a house, but not possessedit." She was quite sure that the look in her eyes rivaled that of any light skirts on the streets of London. "And I am sold, but not yet enjoyed.

Eloisa James

#52. My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.

Brian Andreas

#53. had anyone ever been as homeless as she, not just out of house but out of time itself? -

Stephen King

#54. He was the only witness who claimed he could positively identify me, because i "had spent weekends at his house." But he didn't know the color of my eyes.

Assata Shakur

#55. We live in the same house but we both feel lonely. We and lonely don't belong in the same sentence.

Heidi W. Durrow

#56. I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the 'hood.

Wendy Raquel Robinson

#57. I love feeding off the audience, and to me, what's the point if you're not going to think of the fans. Anyone can play music in their house, but you put it out because you want interact with your fans. And, as an artist, you get so much from your fans.

Dido Armstrong

#58. Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread.
It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandoned, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty

Mother Teresa

#59. You can live in a house, but your real home is inside you.

Leonard Jacobson

#60. Not long after my mom died, my dad pretty much kicked me out of the house. He never said, "Get out of my house," but instead, I came home one night to find all my clothes scattered all over our front lawn.

Brenda Perlin

#61. I hope my daughter knows that in our house we can make messes and have fun and we'll laugh through it. Granted I don't want her to trash the house, but we do make a lot of messes.

Angela Kinsey

#62. Your success as a family ... our success as a nation ... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

Barbara Bush

#63. It is taken care of. Nothing will not break into my Pit or the Far Reaches! I cannot speak for the other parts of the House, but we have Nothing well in hand here. I understand Nothing as no one else does!
- Grim Tuesday

Garth Nix

#64. We want Jesus to come to our house, but we're going to question Him when He gets there.

John Bevere

#65. There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

Arthur Miller

#66. That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then ... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win.

Liz Phair

#67. I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#68. You could walk out of the house, but you always returned home.

Witold Rybczynski

#69. It's fascinating to imagine two successful writers in one house. But when you think about it, it isn't very unusual. In fact, so many writers have writer spouses.

Heidi Julavits

#70. George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?

Adam McKay

#71. We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could.

Sue Townsend

#72. Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world.

Max Lucado

#73. Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.

Rudyard Kipling

#74. I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.

Confucius

#75. I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.

Wilkie Collins

#76. The TV is often on in our house, but I really only keep up with three shows: 'American Idol,' 'Modern Family' and 'The Walking Dead.' Sometimes I'll sip red wine - it's a nice way to slow down and relax.

Carrie Underwood

#77. He felt fine so he got up and tried to walk to his house, but something was holding him back. All around him he could see dark figures. They were faceless masses whose only recognizable features were arms and legs.

Cindy Parmiter

#78. The kiss, which had more pressure than feeling behind it, produced that extra surge of adrenalin in the girl that enables one to carry a packed trunk out of a burning house, but in her, the power went at once to the brain.

Flannery O'Connor

#79. He said he did it for justice, for the honor of his family and House. But this is revenge, and how hollow it seems.

Pierce Brown

#80. Our hope is not in the man we put in the White House but in the Man we put on the Cross.

Rick Warren

#81. Because of Kipling, I've sometimes wondered about keeping a mongoose about the house. But given the cobra population in Silver Spring, Maryland - zero, when last I checked - we hardly need a Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.

Michael Dirda

#82. Came to her, not the athletic, graceful leopard of the ballroom at Hanford House but her very own wounded animal. Her husband. Her lover. Her best friend.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#83. Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup.

Maxwell Bodenheim

#84. Do things you don't want to do because it is the shortest, most guaranteed path to success: what you want in your life. It's not about getting a certain amount of money or a certain type of house, but what you want your life to look like.

Rory Vaden

#85. If Dill were here he would leap over the fence to her, bring her head down to his, kiss her, and hold her hand, and together they would take their stand when there was trouble in the house. But Dill had long since gone from her.

Harper Lee

#86. If a girl has baby wipes in her house, but no baby - I'd say she will most likely be down to let you put it in her ass. "I

Asa Akira

#87. I feel completely safe in my house but all my friends are scared for me. And of course I can tell my parents panic a little. The best thing about living alone is being able to have my friends come over whenever.

Vanessa Hudgens

#88. They are very tame to me. God bless Noel, I'm sure he'll always have a spot on 'Bob's Full House', but I search for something with more bite and rage.

Steven Morrissey

#89. Do you know what our suicide rate would be if we didn't have television? Do you know how much happiness I've brought to people who couldn't get out of the house but could watch Love Boat?

Aaron Spelling

#90. You are overstepping your bounds, Chitah. This is my home," Justus warned.
"Ghuardian, you make the rules in the house, but I make the rules in my bedroom," I said, hoping to avoid a fight. "I'll keep the door open, and if he so much as looks at me funny, I'll nuke him.

Dannika Dark

#91. I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor ... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.

Callan McAuliffe

#92. The company increased as light was let into the house. But

Robert Goolrick

#93. I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.

Chris Hemsworth

#94. To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

Emily Post

#95. They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.

Bud Abbott

#96. The smell of apple pies didn't quite fill the house, but it was there, a thread under everything else. It was kind of hard to take Christophe seriously when he smelled like baked goods. I wondered if other djampjir smelled like Hostess Twinkies and sniggered to myself.

Lilith Saintcrow

#97. Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#98. What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in"
and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.

Howard Zinn

#99. The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot.

Bruce Chatwin

#100. I like when she [Martha Stewart] demonstrates how to transport a potted plant while wearing Hermes pants and uses enough packing material to move a whole house. But we're just moving one plant. Really you just put the plant in a truck and go.

Alexis Stewart