House Quotes - Page 102

You could take Vicodin, step out of the house, onto a freeway, have a truck hit you, and you'd say "My Bad!".

A house is not a home without a cat.

I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.

For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

A lighthouse is more useful than a church.

This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have stormed the Treasury Benches: twice, fruitlessly, the third time with a tin kettle to my tail which rendered the race hopeless. You cannot, therefore, be surprised, that I am a little wearied of these barren victories, which like Alma, Inkerman, and Balaclava, may be glorious but are certainly nothing more.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a "political exile," as he calls himself.

When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People - though perhaps it was only women - seemed to make so much of it. As if life itself were not as empty as the house one was coming back to.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

Do you remember when we picketed the White House in 1965?

Once you do lose a job, there are not a lot of social supports for you. You lose health insurance because we have this absurd system in America where health insurance is usually tied to employment. Your income dips. And that's when you get into selling the house.

If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.

Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'

I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.

But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life.