House Quotes - Page 33

My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he became ostensibly a house-and-barn painter. However, he did not call himself a house-painter. The idea was not flashy enough for him. He called himself a "sign-writer.

All I want is to enter my house justified.

The only critic is a full house.

I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and anarchy, a pigeon that whizzes around unpredictably, that sets it's claws in you, picks at your eyes.

In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.

I'm in between homes right now, but my last house was dope.

I live in a sort of insular world. It's mostly my family, my house, staying home and working.

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma.

What you need to do is build the house you will live in. You build that house by laying a solid foundation: by building physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

If you're beautiful you don't need clothes. If you're ugly like me, you're like a house with no foundations; you need something to build you up.

We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.

I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

I'm not scared of spiders at all. I'm the spider killer in the house.

Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers, supporting new ideas, supporting new ways of getting the message across.

I have a little brother. He's actually living at my house right now. He's going to be 18.