House Quotes - Page 103

A house can have integrity, just like a person.

Well, well, so you aren't going to be a maidservant this time?" said Pippi, stroking his back. "Oh, that was a lie, that's true," she continued. "But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?" she argued. "You wait and see, it's going to turn out he was a maidservant in Arabie after all, and if that's the case, I know who's making the meatballs at our house hereafter!

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?

The best way to clean up a son's room is to close the door and pretend it's not part of the house.

In life, a person will come and go from many homes. We may leave a house, a town, a room, but that does not mean those places leave us. Once entered, we never entirely depart the homes we make for ourselves in the world. They follow us, like shadows, until we come upon them again, waiting for us in the mist.

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?

Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

It's only a house when it's filled with people you love.

If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.

I do not hope somebody breaks in. However, if they did, I pity them. I pity the fool that breaks into my house.

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.

Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady bring you your house-slippers and untie your fiery red necktie. You always make revolutions with your mugs, your republic--nothing but an industrial accident.

Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?

Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.

Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.

Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.

And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!

House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.