House Quotes - Page 42

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

It's not the size of the house. It's how much love is inside.

The more we consume, the more we want. And the more we want, the more we have to work to pay for all these things and insure them and then get stressed about them and protect them and get bigger houses. I think true freedom comes with letting go of them.

Nobody leaves a house where there is peace, joy and good sex.

So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.

I've been doing the Fonda workout: the Peter Fonda workout. That's where I wake up, take a hit of acid, smoke a joint, and go to my sister's house and ask her for money.

I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!

I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food

My house is the red earth . . . .

I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty.

Death is not the master of the house, he is only the porter of the king's lodge.

But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

People must work things out for themselves. It is no good saying, "I have found a house which suits me and therefore everybody must adopt the same kind of house."

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.

I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.

A man's house is his castle.

In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.

The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites?