Quotes About Selling Houses

#1. His name was George F. Babbitt, and ... he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

Sinclair Lewis

#2. When coffee became popular in Oxford and the coffee houses selling it began to multiply, the university authorities tried to clamp down, worrying that coffee houses promoted idleness and distracted members of the university from their studies

Tom Standage

#3. The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

Wang Jianlin

#4. When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know the answer either.

Edgar Fiedler

#5. Ordinary life did not stop just because kings rose and fell, Mosca realized. People adapted. If the world turned upside down, everyone ran and hid in their houses, but a very short while later, if all seemed quiet, they came out again and started selling each other potatoes.

Frances Hardinge

#6. I blame all the craziness of people buying houses, re-doing them and selling them, on these programs on television where they are redoing your homes and kitchens.

Barbara Hulanicki

#7. After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.

Bert Lahr

#8. The brunette was conducting tests on the collected blood when the older woman came into her laboratory to get the child's photo. The old woman took the picture to a pale-skinned woman with red hair, who in turn fixed it with a morbidly curious look before handing it back.

R.G. Richards

#9. Survival wasn't nearly as hard as he'd thought once he left decency behind.

Leigh Bardugo

#10. Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#11. All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

Ai Weiwei

#12. Before the fruits of prosperity can come, the storms of life need to first bring the required rains of testing, which mixes with the seeds of wisdom to produce a mature harvest.

Lincoln Patz

#13. It is not wrong to want to live better; what is wrong is a style of life which is presumed to be better when it is directed towards 'having' rather than 'being,' and which wants to have more, not in order to be more but in order to spend life in enjoyment as an end in itself.

Pope John Paul I

#14. It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral point.

Isobelle Carmody

#15. They say he has made a fortune selling lobsters and renting houses to the summer people.

Gertrude Chandler Warner

#16. I don't think the market can keep going up. In the U.S., we see real estate not going up.. houses are selling at lower prices. You can't have anything going up 10 percent to 20 percent to 30 percent indefinitely.

Eli Broad

#17. Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.

William Cowper

#18. If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship.

Steve Brown

#19. There's a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car.

Scott Ian