House Quotes - Page 48

Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.

I don't really cook much. I'm more of a baker. My favorite things to bake that everybody loves, and I can only keep in the house for about ten minutes, are 7-Up cake and Pineapple Upside-Down cake.

Staying focused on a project or plan is one of the most difficult challenges we face. There is always the house to clean, calls to make, laundry to fold, deadlines to meet. Actually, there is only one thing that keeps us from our goals - lack of focus. And very often, lack of focus is caused by fear.

Can one move an empire as if it were a house?

I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it for an audience. The more the merrier. I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.

The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

Zsa Zsa Gabor is an expert housekeeper. Every time she gets divorced, she keeps the house.

Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by the Zionists.

For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.

After [Adolf] Hitler took power, Hoffmann moved to a grander place on the Ebersbergerstrasse. I never saw the first house, I was never there. It was at the Schnorrstrasse that Eva [Braun] and he first really got to know each other. Some of this was before Geli Raubal's death, much of it was after that event.

Woe to the house where there is no chiding.

I was three over. One over a house, one over a patio, and one over a swimming pool.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.

There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.

The house of magic has many rooms.

We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.

In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.

For a man's house is his castle.

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.