House Quotes - Page 69

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.

My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

I am definitely pro-European, even pro-global, and house music and electronic music has developed a network all over the world, between record shops in Berlin, Tokyo, London, Chicago, Minneapolis and L.A. That's really what I feel part of, rather than being French.

The seduction of evil is precisely in that it involves us in trying to eliminate it. When your consciousness is open, any action you take in reference to evil has no more significance than digging a ditch to channel floodwaters away from a house.

Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents house as much as I can.

I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all.

My friend Sam has one leg. I went to his house. I couldn't go up the stairs.

There's no law that says I can't cook in my own house." - Charlie Swan

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: 'If I sit down and do this, everything will come out okay.'

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

My father had a phase of having jukeboxes all over the house. He was a music lover but he was also into musical machinery. Not instruments, he was never interested in playing particularly but there would be these odd objects, like valve amplifiers being dismantled on the kitchen table. My mum wasn't massively keen on that, but it was part of the environment.

The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.

A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade.

The American people have every right to be outraged with the administration's approval of the UAE port deal. It is time the people's House make the security of our Nation's ports a priority.