Top 100 House For Quotes
#1. So Aunt Jillian quit her job and hitched her wagon to Brant. Lived off food stamps and her savings account in a spare bedroom at Brant's house for two years. Then she brokered their first deal and all of the Sharps moved their bank account decimals seven places to the right.
Alessandra Torre
#2. They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.
George MacDonald
#3. I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.
Anthony Horowitz
#4. I am always going to have problems with the paparazzi. I have had two men outside my house for the last two years, which is frightening at times, but that is my life unfortunately.
David Beckham
#5. Honestly, you would have thought she'd be happy to have me, her premenstrual-screaming-raging-teenage-daughter-who-is-lovely-to-everyone-else-but-the-actual-devil-at-home, out of the house for a little bit. But it appeared not having me at home caused her just as much stress as having me there did.
Giovanna Fletcher
#6. I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.
Desiree Rogers
#7. To many, The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house for a few weeks.
N. T. Wright
#8. The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark.
Max Von Sydow
#9. I've been thinking I'd like to be Daisy; I'd like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me
Koren Zailckas
#10. A house for wisdom, a field for revelation.
Speak to the stars, and the stars answer. At first the visible obscures:
Go where the light is.
Theodore Roethke
#11. I don't really cook much. I'm more of a baker. My favorite things to bake that everybody loves, and I can only keep in the house for about ten minutes, are 7-Up cake and Pineapple Upside-Down cake.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#12. Who has a house for ten years and doesn't own a drill? - Kerry
A gay man who has the phone number of a really hot carpenter. - Malcolm
Jaime Samms
#13. I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.
Hillary Clinton
#14. President Obama had a few historians at the White House for a couple of dinners. I was lucky enough to be one of those asked, and he was very interested in Ronald Reagan, and I came away feeling that.
Douglas Brinkley
#15. Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner
Ruth Reichl
#16. I'm decorating my parents' house for Christmas ... I hope they find my manger with a baby yeezus in it as funny as I do!
Lisa Lampanelli
#17. CHAPTER VI - WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
Victor Hugo
#19. I simply constructed a project to try to snap Kurt [Cobain] out of a frame of mind. I sent him a plane ticket and a driver, and he tacked the plane ticket to the wall in the bedroom and the driver sat outside the house for 10 hours. Kurt wouldn't come out and wouldn't answer the phone.
Michael Stipe
#20. It was a house for those who could not take care of themselves, for those who heard voices, who had strange thoughts and did strange things. The house was meant to keep them in. Once they came, they never left.
Madeleine Roux
#21. Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.
D.H. Lawrence
#22. When Martha gets out she'll be under house arrest in her big $40 million mansion in Bedford. Boy, that'll teach her. She's only allowed out of the house for doctors visits, grocery shopping, or to dump more stock.
David Letterman
#23. Mother came to New York to keep house for me.
Desi Arnaz
#24. Later, William Stoner could not remember how he learned these things, that first afternoon and early evening at Josiah Claremont's house; for the time of his meeting was blurred and formal, like the figured tapestry on the stair wall off the foyer.
John Williams
#25. He hadn't lied. He honestly liked her house, for the same reasons he was drawn to the woman. There was no artifice about either one.
Ruth Wind
#27. If only the hat had mentioned a house for people who felt a bit queasy, that would have been the one for him.
J.K. Rowling
#28. Each of us can and must shift our behavior according to our ability. For some, that means changing diet, shopping locally, or putting solar panels on their house. For others, it means using their voice to inspire transformative change.
James Balog
#29. When I first saw you tonight," he lowered his voice and whispered in my ear, "I wanted to drag you out of here, drive you home, and fuck you in every room of my house for the rest of the weekend.
Whitney Gracia Williams
#30. It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Jonathan Swift
#31. I don't wish to harm the ghost in any way,' he said. He looked at his young sons. 'And it is not polite to throw pillows at someone who has been in this house for so long.
Oscar Wilde
#32. Here's a guy [Marco Rubio] - here's a guy that buys a house for $179,000, he sells it to a lobbyist who's probably here for $380,000 and then legislation is passed. You tell me about this guy. This is what we're going to have as president.
Donald Trump
#33. I'm short-selling my house. I have more loans than I can sell the house for. The house will not go into foreclosure. It will be a short sale. I can't afford the house as I once could.
Robert A. Schuller
#34. If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
Vince Vaughn
#35. At midnight every night, I would methodically leave the house for a couple hours' walk, come back in, and record. And then the sun came up. If I had done something good, then I'd be happy and go to sleep.
Bill Callahan
#36. over to our house for Joe's sausage lasagna. A half hour later, Julie was in bed and two of my very favorite people were standing around the kitchen
James Patterson
#37. Keep alive the fact that a mystery has come into existence and that a physical being serves as a house for this mystery.
Paul Caponigro
#38. There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.
Shirley Jackson
#39. If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.
Eric Braeden
#40. We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.
Bob Livingston
#41. I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.
Jeff Foxworthy
#42. I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.
Jacques Pepin
#43. If you don't even leave the house for fear of the journey, how will you ever reach your destination? -Rehman-
Farahad Zama
#44. At that moment, Dave would have lifted a house for Jimmy, held it up to his chest until Jimmy told him where to put it down.
Dennis Lehane
#45. And maybe one day we'll look back and wonder how we managed to live in the same house for so long, and never stopped to introduce ourselves.
John Koenig
#46. In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.
Zach Wamp
#47. Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.
Etel Adnan
#48. I think that was very important to Bacon ... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove.
Mark Rylance
#49. All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music ... and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!
Jay Kay
#50. We all can think of at least one kid who had great parents, a great family, and an all-around great childhood ... who suddenly went crazy as soon as he left the house for college or adulthood. And nobody can figure out how or why it happened!
Andy Andrews
#51. I'd rather not marry an actor because there isn't room in the house for two egos.
Susan Strasberg
#52. Snape could send Phineas Nigellus to look inside the house for him," Hermione explained to Ron as she resumed her seat. "But let him try it now, all Phineas Nigellus will be able to see is the inside of my handbag."
"Good thinking!" said Ron, looking impressed.
J.K. Rowling
#53. They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
Charles Dickens
#54. I uprooted my daughter and left my job and moved house for you, and you treat me like a hooker you don't have to pay.
J.K. Rowling
#55. One of the best things about being [joyfully] retired is the freedom to travel when I want. When my son and daughter-in-law asked me to stay at their house for a week to house-sit while they were away on vacation, I had the freedom to do it.
Helen A. Rosburg
#56. On the front cover of Newsweek reviews "A House for Mr. Biswas" as "a marvelous prose epic that matches the best 19th century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power.
V.S. Naipaul
#57. High time he had another tutor,' said Larry. 'You leave the house for five minutes and come back and find him disembowelling Moby Dick on the front porch.' 'I'm sure he didn't mean any harm,' said Mother, ' but it was rather silly for him to do it on the veranda.
Gerald Durrell
#58. When people come over to my house for dinner, I always have a vegetarian option. They can make do, or they can **** off!
Jimmy Carr
#59. We ask for way too much stuff - way too much stuff. You got a job making $100 a year and bought a house for $3 million. Talking about, 'I don't know what happened with the payment.'
Sinbad
#60. There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus. What you've got is everything, and I mean everything, being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis.
John DiIulio
#61. Yes. Soften it as they would, their hearts were lighter. The children's faces, hushed and clustered round to hear what they so little understood, were brighter, and it was a happier house for this man's death! The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.
Charles Dickens
#62. My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.
Steve Carell
#63. I had not realized how much anger I held against my heart for all the people who use others as nothing more than tools to build a house for themselves, who wrap chains around others and then claim they have the right and even the obligation to do so.
Kate Elliott
#64. I love living in L.A. It's quieter. It's much more relaxing. I'm living in a house for the first time ever. I have a backyard for the first time ever; a dog for the first time ever. So it's a lot of firsts, and I love it so much. It's just so different. It's a nice change of pace.
Sarah Hyland
#65. It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.
Neil Diamond
#66. 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
#67. Danny and I were sposed to go to his mother's house for Thanksgiving. Now what? What do I tell his mother?
Well, not this. Mothers hate it when you tell them their sons are queer.
Vanda
#68. Make sure your bathroom is clean. If you're having a girl over the house for the first time, make sure your toilet is clean, not disgusting. Guys' bathrooms are always the most disgusting thing.
Carly Aquilino
#69. When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.
David Rubenstein
#70. No, I'm putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big house, so my daughter can have a garden.
Ewan McGregor
#71. I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.
Jens Lekman
#72. A tree will stand in the scorching sun to give shade to others. A tree will bear the freezing cold of the winter and give wood to create heat for all. A tree will silently even give up its life to give its body to build a house for others to stay comfortably. That is tolerance.
Radhanath Swami
#73. I want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body. It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave.
Dith Pran
#74. On the surface, you think you wouldn't have to think at all about being asked to play Bilbo in 'The Hobbit.' It's not prison; it's a good gig. But you know it's going to take a long time, and it does. There are times when you thought: 'Gee, I've not seen my house for months.'
Martin Freeman
#75. I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that.
Christopher Meloni
#76. I scare the neighbors, the kids ... They don't come to my house for trick-or-treating, trust me. I had to buy exactly zero amount of dollars worth of candy for the past couple of years.
Al Jourgensen
#77. to live with you forever. I want to buy the house on the river from my brothers, and I want you to have the coach house for your studio. I want to love you and make love to you every day and make up for every shitty day you ever had. I love you.
Victoria James
#78. After watching the house for a few days, she had concluded that the magician lived alone, but you never knew if someone had a secret lover stashed away. Or a very loud pet. That time with the peacock, for instance. Noisy birds, peacocks.
Yoon Ha Lee
#79. But the only game she wanted to play was Kidnapper, where she tied me up and left me in my own tree house for about twelve hours, until Dad climbed up and got me down. Why hadn't I at least called for help? I had. But no one had heard me. Probably because of the gag in my mouth.
Douglas Rees
#80. My neighbour is the very famous Johnny Depp, who looks away should I ever appear. When my seven-year tenure at Sweetzer ends, Johnny Depp will buy the house for use as a guest annex.
Morrissey
#81. After President Mutharika was declared a winner, there was life after State House. For those Malawians that know me, I am an international public speaker. So I went back to my speaking engagements.
Joyce Banda
#82. I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.
Trey Parker
#83. When people say, 'Hey, wanna come to our house for dinner?' I say, 'Yeah, what should I bring?' They say, 'How about the dessert?' I just don't skimp on the dessert. I make it the yummy way it should be made, and then I just don't eat the whole pan.
Summer Sanders
#84. I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think.
Cathy Guisewite
#85. The neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks goes one further: If you're working on two completely separate projects, dedicate one desk or table or section of the house for each. Just stepping into a different space hits the reset
Daniel J. Levitin
#86. While wishing a beautiful snowing for the streets of your city, do not forget also to wish a warm house for the homeless!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#87. I'd worked at the White House for two years, and I'd read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long - and never without the word 'power' in the title.
Christopher Buckley
#88. I love Martha's Vineyard, where I have had a house for thirty years. I have loved visiting countries around the world. But I always come home to Washington.
Katharine Graham
#89. If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#90. How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.
Dinah Maria Mulock
#91. Elizabeth Taylor has a big heart. She recently built a halfway house for girls who don't want to go all the way.
Red Buttons
#92. I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love.
Todd English
#93. Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.
Hanna Rosin
#94. When at work I have the best seat in the house for the greatest show on earth!!!
Unknown
#95. When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months. That's all I knew, and that's why I don't really belong anywhere.
Peter Doig
#96. He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
Abu Bakr
#97. I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting.
Katie McGarry
#98. Well I've been locking myself up in my house for some time now Reading and writing and reading and thinking and searching for reasons and missing the seasons The Autumn, the Spring, the Summer, the snow
Colleen Hoover
#99. I was not made for the desk and counting-house, for petty business squabbling, and legal jangling.
Jack London
#100. A person has to live in a house for it not to break down.
Park Gye-Ok
