House Quotes - Page 24

So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago.

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

You will find scraps of paper all over the house when I am designing a new woodcut and woe betide the person who touches one of the scraps. When I have the exact design in my mind, I set the model up, pots and flowers, leaves and background, and begin work.

I once woke up at a random guy's house and i didn't actually know who he was.

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die.

The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.

O, that we who declare war against wars, and acknowledge our trust to be in God only, may walk in the light, and therein examine our foundation and motives in holding onto money! May we look upon our estates, our treasures, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these, our possessions.

Managers will work for a salary. Entrepreneurs create new businesses. Many people have capital, but instead of making money for business they build houses for rent. It's easy money to collect rental.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.

Houses without personality are a series of walled enclosures with furniture standing around in them. Other houses are filled with things of little intrinsic value, even with much that is shabby and yet they have that inviting atmosphere.

Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.

You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house And if you got a glass jaw, you should watch your mouth Cause I'll break your face...

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!

I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to follow, it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while.

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

The patient is the one with the disease

No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last forever. But if your house is on fire, the sensible course of action is to put out the fire, even though this extinguishment provides no guarantee that the house will never catch fire again.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.