House Quotes - Page 189

The Mr. absent, and the house dead.

The House shewes the owner.

The wife is the key of the house.

In a good house all is quickly ready.

If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]

The house shows the owner.

God oft hath a great share in a little house.

Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).

My house, my house, though thou art small, Thou art to me the Escurial.

The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to their house. [The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.]

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Now, like, I'm President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know?...I bet if they did, I hope I would say, 'Hey, get lost. We don't want any of that.'

Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!

I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.

Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

In the '80s, the world I was living in wasn't this world of consumption. There wasn't that much to buy, really. Actually I'm still struck by that. There's not an awful lot of stuff I want. Somebody quotes Diogenes, who's walking around saying, "How many things there are in the marketplace of which Diogenes has no need." I always feel that. Except of course when you're living in Venice, California and you see all these lovely houses!

I bought my first house when I was 24 for £19,500 and it was sold two years ago for £256,000. I've always made profit on my houses.

A director once told me, "You need to act like you're on mute and speak as though the viewer is in the other room doing the dishes." You become a part of the house. We can make fun of telenovelas, but not to the point where we're mocking them.

A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.

Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn't have to be a member of congress. He or she can be anyone. I'm not sure if James Madison really intended that, or if the wording was accidentally imprecise, but the Constitution, as a recall, simply says that the House shall chuse a speaker.

I don't know what's wrong with it: if you commit a crime, you've overstayed our welcome. If I have guests in my house and if they start messing up my kitchen or start getting a fire in any sleeping room I would send them away.

My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of our food. We were very underexposed to everything.

To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream.

On the other hand, if I walk in the house, I don't even bother to find her, I just walk in the den and flip on the TV, get myself something to drink, sit down, start unwinding, I have influenced my wife in a very negative way.

I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.