When Your House Burns Down Quotes

#1. When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

Mark Twain

#2. I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

Robbie Williams

#3. After five years of marriage their idea of a really pleasant evening was to be at home, alone, help each other make a good dinner and then sit for a long time and eat and drink and talk.

Maj Sjowall

#4. You don't lose much when the landlord's house burns down. Another landlord will always turn up, unless it's the same one, German or French, English or Chinese, to collect the rent ... In marks or francs? What difference does it make, seeing you've got to pay ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#5. We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.

Martin Heidegger

#6. It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.

Sharon Creech

#7. You must understand the following: In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.

Robert Greene

#8. It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin.

Stephen Mitchell

#9. Yes, President Young did teach that Adam was the father of our spirits, and all the related things that the cultists ascribe to him. This [i.e., Brigham Young's teaching on Adam], however, is not true. He expressed views that are out of harmony with the gospel.

Bruce R. McConkie

#10. 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

#11. It never hurts a fool to appear before an
audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

Dale Carnegie

#12. I always recommend rewiring vintage lighting. It's not a bargain if your house burns down.

Lara Spencer

#13. Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.

Daniel Johns

#14. If your house burns down, rescue the dogs. At least they'll be faithful to you.

Lee Marvin

#15. I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.

Kim Kardashian

#16. I want to create the kinds of things that if the house burns down you want to run and save.

Marcel Wanders

#17. Radio affects most intimately, person-to-perso n, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener

Marshall McLuhan

#18. Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#19. No man burns down his own house on the theory that the need to rebuild it will stimulate his energies.

Henry Hazlitt

#20. Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.

Austin O'Malley

#21. You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.

Jamie Redknapp

#22. Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down,

Sarah Hanson-Young

#23. I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh
so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#24. When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

John Fowles

#25. He covered her hands with his. "Why the hurry?"
"Seriously?" She stared at him, her jaw dropping. "I'm on fire! If we wait one more minute, I'm certain the sheets will spontaneously combust. I won't be held responsible if your house burns down because you wanted to waste time on foreplay.

Elle James

#26. Joanne Woodward's Mrs. Bridge is one of the best performances ever given on film of a middle-aged woman.

Jeanine Basinger

#27. If I don't wield the sword, I can't protect you. If I keep wielding the sword, I can't embrace you. -Ichigo Kurosaki

Tite Kubo