Top 100 House On Quotes
#1. 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.
Penelope Keith
#2. If I was a cynic I would be wondering if sooner or later some charismatic douche-bag might stomp all over this Little House on the Prairie dream of yours.
Stephen Baxter
#3. Quote from "FUTURE GONE":
" ... I set the house on fire. It's dark outside. The fire tears down the darkness. I turn my back to the place and leave, not knowing where.
And suddenly I understand ...
All dreams are dead now".
Alexandar Tomov
#4. There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Henry Louis Gates
#5. You never know how many friends you have until you rent a house on the beach.
Jim Steinman
#6. Carrying anger with you is like lighting your own house on fire to get rid of rats. The rats run to safety while you burn yourself down. Forgive. Let go. Heal.
Jewel
#7. One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.
Bobby Flay
#8. If this was the afterlife, he thought, it was a lot like the House on the Rock: part diorama, part nightmare.
Neil Gaiman
#9. In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above ... so I never have to go upstairs.
Steven Wright
#10. Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always love thy neighbor. And always pick a good neighborhood to live in.
Robert Fulghum
#11. They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.
Patricia Ireland
#12. I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!
Flavor Flav
#13. A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.
Per Petterson
#14. motives of people, she was inclined to credit any extraordinary happening attributed to the whimsical perambulations of the buried. The desperate squeakings about the old house on
F Scott Fitzgerald
#15. Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.
Sissy Spacek
#16. I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just don't take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. 'Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read 'Little House on the Prairie' when he was in third grade.
Jon Scieszka
#17. Life always seems to have worries, even if you own a big and beautiful house on the best street in town.
Natalie Babbitt
#18. Whether you are in an eight-hundred-square-foot home or living in a dream house on a lake, contentment is found on the way.
Joanna Gaines
#19. He'd missed the first wasp, when it built its paperfine gray house on the blistered paint of the windowframe, but soon the nest was a fist-sized lump of fiber, insects hurtling out to hunt the alley below like miniature copters buzzing the rotting contents of the dumpsters.
William Gibson
#20. My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.
Albert Finney
#21. Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#22. The first Mardi Gras I went to, I stayed at the Tulane AE Pi house on Broadway. Slept on a pool table one night, slept under it the next.
Adam Richman
#23. I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.
Mickey Rooney
#24. All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.
Jeremy Taylor
#25. I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!
Ina Garten
#26. Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch 3', 'Cagney and Lacey', 'Wonder Twins Activate From Two Hot Broads', 'Little House on the Prairie: The Musical: The Movie'.
Amy Poehler
#27. The judge's massive eyebrows crept up. "Kaldar. Are you the one speaking for the plaintiff today?"
"Yes, Your Honor."
"Well, shit," Dobe said. "I guess you're familiar with the law. You hit it over the head, set its house on fire, and got its sister pregnant.
Ilona Andrews
#28. You don't know many friends you have till you buy a big-ass house on the beach.
Lois Greiman
#29. There was no wire across in those days, no big house on the other side; nothing but the open yap of the planet, yawning as if bored by the pace of evolution.
Tom Robbins
#30. I think Hitchcock had a thing about hills: think of the house on the hill in 'Psycho.' Then, in 'Vertigo,' Scottie is forever traversing the city, going downhill all the time as he goes deeper and deeper into himself. It's as if Hitchcock is using San Francisco as a psychological map.
Allen Coulter
#31. I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery books along with really frightening books, like one on Jack the Ripper. She also had a poster of a shark in the closet which also terrified me at the time.
Christopher Bollen
#32. Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.
Terry Pratchett
#33. I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.
Tony Fadell
#34. Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire.
Douglas Adams
#35. I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
Val McDermid
#36. but look at it this way: If you've got the ugliest house on the street, you never have to look at it.
Dave Eggers
#37. Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.
Homer
#38. It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.
Glenn Close
#39. We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
Tennessee Williams
#40. To build your house on the rock is to hear what Jesus says and obey. To be foolish and build your house on the sand is to hear and ignore.
Kevin DeYoung
#41. It's not natural rattling around the house on my own all day when you're not here. It's no way to live. That's all I have to say.
Fredrik Backman
#42. The problem of what to wear while lolling about the house on a Sunday afternoon is becoming more and more acute as the fashions in lolling garments change. The American home is in danger of taking on the appearance of an Oriental bordello.
Robert Benchley
#44. With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy.
Charles Krauthammer
#45. Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.
Mike Love
#46. When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.
Gavin DeGraw
#47. Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately.
Scott Adams
#48. I'm not paranoid, just prepared. There is a distinct difference and a higher survival rate for the latter." Rainey Bell, from "Molly: House on Fire
R.E. Bradshaw
#49. I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.
Terry Pratchett
#50. I always thought I'd buy my mother a house if I ever became successful - a big, beautiful house on the nicest street in town. It didn't exactly work out that way. I was still borrowing money from her in my 40s.
Tom Shales
#51. I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.
Taye Diggs
#52. The guy didn't have resting bitch face so much as resting I'm-going-to-kill-someone-and-light-their-house-on-fire face.
J.R. Ward
#53. Please forgive my appearance. I am lately come from setting a house on fire.
Clare Boylan
#54. The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.
Marianne Moore
#55. A movie like 'The Last House On The Left' would be very hard to do in Europe.
Alexandre Aja
#56. He couldn't imagine, couldn't imagine the horror of scrubbing your own father's blood out of the floor. Better to set the whole house on fire, better to leave and never come back."
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Veronica Roth
#57. of a vacant house on Simpson Street, waiting for a FedEx van. The curtains of the house were
J. Royal Horton
#58. You two would get on like a house on fire. Don't douse the flames before you've struck a match.
Kelly Batten
#59. I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote 'The Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden.' And I loved the 'Little House on the Prairie' books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Mary Pope Osborne
#60. How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?
Kamisese Mara
#61. I had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back.
John Steinbeck
#62. I enjoyed coaching so much that I just have to stay with it. Don Coryell - I love him, and I think he was a great coach - but I hear he's going to build a house on some island. He's going to divorce himself from football, and that's a mystery to me.
Sid Gillman
#63. I really want to work with Adele, I think she's amazing. Lykke Li as well. I love them both. I'd also like to work with The Script. I met them in Australia and we just got on like a house on fire.
Tinie Tempah
#64. I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore.
Luke Perry
#65. As a kid, I think I rearranged the rooms of almost every house on the block.
Nate Berkus
#66. I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on.
Terence McKenna
#67. In a city by the sea that was certainly never called anything so bourgeois as St. Petersburg, there stood a long, thin house on a long, thin street.
Catherynne M Valente
#68. Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
David Hockney
#69. Love is a bridge over the sea of change. Do not build a house on it.
Sathya Sai Baba
#70. I don't like anyone who comes and dies in my house on purpose to annoy me," said Lord Caterham obstinately.
Agatha Christie
#71. Now - a profanity-spewing guttersnipe being dragged out of a crack house on Cops. I
Katja Millay
#73. We'd pluck the spiky chestnuts, leaving their green outer shells intact, and throw them at the neighbor boys.
I always took particular care in aiming for Jack's head. He told me later that he rode his bike by my house on purpose. I asked him if he liked pain.
Brodi Ashton
#74. Peacefully ensconced in a small house on the outskirts of somewhere or other, enjoying a tranquillity in which I won't write the works I don't write now, and to keep on not writing them I'll come up with even better excuses than the ones I use today to elude myself.
Fernando Pessoa
#75. As a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.
Charles Bukowski
#76. If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.
Patty Murray
#77. My wife's brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The 30-minute crossing from the mainland to this island is the most terrifying cruise you'll ever take. They give you a barf bag when you walk on board.
Nick Frost
#78. I might reinvent myself to strangers, but to this day, as far as my family is concerned, I'm still the one most likely to set your house on fire.
David Sedaris
#79. I was about 12 when I first encountered 'The Moonstone' - or a Classics Illustrated version of it - digging through an old trunk in my grandfather's house on a rainy Bengali afternoon.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#80. I was once all by myself in a house on Fire Island. Where I compared the original cast recordings of two different versions of The Wild Party. A helicopter should have descended and taken me away to a gay penal colony. But of course, I was already there.
Paul Rudnick
#81. I've lived with you right now and those right nows are everywhere, every time, in my house, on the mountain. I love you. Home is where love is. You're my home.
Lara Avery
#82. My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.
Christina Applegate
#83. Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories.
Caroline Sunshine
#84. I think we need to get the measurements that Congress has mandated from the White House on how we're going to determine progress in Afghanistan.
Jeanne Shaheen
#85. The house on The Crescent, stepped into the hillside, had no face. In
Jonathan Lethem
#86. It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places. This was a normal, relatable place that I think a lot of people have in their childhood.
Steve Carell
#87. I slipped the acres of pink taffeta over my head and struggled to get it zipped. What had originally been a dress from the Little House on the Prairie collection was now straight out of the Little Whore-house on the Prairie collection.
Janet Evanovich
#88. In a city by the sea which was once called St. Petersburg, then Petrograd, then Leningrad, then, much later, St. Petersburg again, there stood a long, thin house on a long, thin street. By a long, thin window, a child in a pale blue dress and pale green slippers waited for a bird to marry her.
Catherynne M Valente
#89. You are so vicious. (Tee)
Hence the nickname. (Syd)
You know it's bad when you make me look like Glinda the Good Witch, right? (Tee)
Just call me Elphaba. But don't drop a house on me, 'kay? (Syd)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#90. We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
Jim Harrison
#91. I have a lovely office at the back of my house; it's an old stable and you can see right out to the countryside on one side and into the house on the other side.
Eoin Colfer
#92. I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.
Henry David Thoreau
#93. Basing your identity on sexuality is like building a house on a foundation of pudding. - D. Travers Scott
Carol Queen
#94. Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.
C.S. Lewis
#95. Chryseis was in another wing in the back of the house and would not be aware of our presence. I hadn't taken much notice of the house on my previous visit, but I now realized it was quite large, and built on the Roman model.
Albert A. Bell Jr.
#96. My best friend - her name was Helena - lived in that house. Sometimes I used to spend the night with her. But more often she came to my house, on weekends. It was more fun to be in the country.
Lois Lowry
#97. You might be a redneck if you watch Little House on the Prairie for decorating tips.
Jeff Foxworthy
#98. I learned the long way about love, tried every house on the block before I got it right. Now, finally, I love alone.
Ottessa Moshfegh
#99. What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?
Daphne Du Maurier
#100. The problem with many Jesus freaks is that we claim to 'build our house on a rock,' but when a storm comes we have such confidence in the building that all our focus is on the house. As if surety comes from construction, not from the foundation.
Anna Broadway
