House Quotes - Page 40

It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans. Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant, but when they've been fixed, then they are happy and sedate. They are contented and cheerful. They don't go around peeing on the furniture and such.

I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.

I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It's just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I'm not stingy.

Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.

If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.

No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.

I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.

Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing!

There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable.

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

There's nothing like white trash at the White House.

Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately asked all the guests to raise their hands because "many hands make light work." The audience complied, and to their amazement the lights immediately came back on. Lange was invited to visit China.

The first time I went to Wales I thought I'd landed in a land of hobbits. Everybody was really small and the houses were small and the writing was backwards.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.'

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

I think I'm a pretty creative person. I love building things. I love working on my house. Landscaping, stuff like that.

as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.

She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.