House Quotes - Page 43

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

Nothing makes a house cozier than cats.

As much as I love my family, I enjoy it when the house is empty, because then I know I'm truly alone, as we all are on the planet, after all. Every atom in us is originally from a star. And during my moments of aloneness, I'm most mindful of that; that I'm just another group of matter randomly but wonderfully arranged. That's when I feel my immortality.

We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.

If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House.

The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions.

There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house.

Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.

Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.

pain is inevitable,suffering is optional... we have bigger houses,but smaller families. More conveniences,but less time. We have knowledge,but less judgements; more experts,but more problems ; more medicines but less health.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.

Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.

Money is created through bank debt. When you go for a mortgage through a bank, they give you $100,000 to buy a house and basically send you out into the world to bring back $200,000 in the next twenty years. The first $100,000 is principal, and the second is interest.

The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.