House Quotes - Page 28

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

I'm not sure most of the people that get caught up in the middle of a bubble can be described as irrational. It seems pretty rational to buy a house and flip it in the next few weeks at a profit when that's been happening for along time.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

What good is a dream house if you haven't got a dream?

We [americans] need to control our border just like people have to control who goes in and out of their house.

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.

Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.

Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries - or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two milenniums. I am never a part of anything around me - in everything I am an outsider. Should I find it possible to crawl backward through the Halls of Time to that age which is nearest my own fancy, I should doubtless be bawled out of the coffee-houses for heresy in religion, or else lampooned by John Dennis till I found refuge in the deep, silent Thames, that covers many another unfortunate.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

You want the people to know, but you don't really want the things behind it. I have everything I ever wanted. I never wanted a big house. I never wanted a Ferrari. I mean, as I proceeded with the music, I started liking Ferraris...

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

I wouldn't bet on a horse unless he came up to my house and told me to himself.

With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.

I will not eat them in a house, i will not eat them with a mouse,i will not eat them in a box i will not eat them with a fox, i will not eat them here of there i will not eat them anywhere, I do not like green eggs and ham i do not like them sam i am

I would have painted the White House black. I would have!

I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.

We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.

I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!