Houseful Quotes

#1. I am not only the person who wrote and sold a novel while raising a houseful of biological and foster children; I am also the person who wrote a horrific young adult novel that never sold and gave up on a foster child I couldn't handle - an experience that still haunts me.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#2. And you're worried, not because you're headed to meet a houseful of vampires, but because you think those vampires won't approve of you, correct?"
"That's right," I answered immediately, hiding my surprise at his casual use of the word.
He shook his head. "You're incredible.

Stephenie Meyer

#3. The man had to have some kind of comeback, his kind always does. So if spitting in my face and threatening me saved Mayella Ewell one extra beating, that's something I'll gladly take. He had to take it out on somebody and I'd rather it be me than that houseful of children out there.

Harper Lee

#4. With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.

Michael Landon

#5. In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.

Robert Breault

#6. Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

Sam Levenson

#7. One of my earliest joys as a parent lay in knowing that at the end of the day I had once again ushered three babies back to their beds, against the odds, unscathed and peaceful. Happiness was a houseful of safe, inert bodies. Actually, it still is.

Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

#8. People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a hoarder with a houseful of crumbling newspapers.

Michael Dirda

#9. If you will let it, this Blue Willow platter can represent my promise to fill your life with my trust and love and a houseful of children. - Peter Andersen

Maggie Brendan

#10. What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?

Cory Doctorow

#11. He could do whatever he wanted. My father was the same way: a houseful of guests, and my mother's duty was to provide food, drink, fun, and conversation, while my father's was to nap or read.

Melissa Bank

#12. The hormonal interplay inside a woman's head creates her reality. Her hormones tell her day to day what's important. They mold her desires and values.

Abhijit Naskar

#13. One of the beautiful things about men is that they're very in the moment. That's why they don't want to have an argument about what happened six months ago.

Tracy McMillan

#14. I am like a brick.

Amrish Puri

#15. Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.

George Eliot

#16. My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.

Jane Pauley

#17. Of whomsoever I had been Master (Mawla), Ali here is to be his Master. O Allah, be a supporter of whoever supports him (Ali) and an enemy of whoever opposes him.

Anonymous

#18. Philosophy makes literature clear, literature makes philosophy real.

Peter Kreeft

#19. The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.

James Bryant Conant

#20. Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.

Albert Camus

#21. I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab
which is typical
and not just of modern life

Frank O'Hara

#22. A good story never dies.

Roberta Williams

#23. I love lifestyle stuff, I love housewares. I'm really a homebody, honestly. Anything to do with my kitchen, or my house, I'm all about it. I'm working on a sauce line, so that's kind of exciting. I'm a saucier.

Kelis

#24. I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.

Ken Livingstone

#25. At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.

Meredith Whitney

#26. Love is eternal. It has been the strongest motivation for human actions throughout history. Love is stronger than life. It reaches beyond the dark shadow of death.

Vera Caspary