House Quotes - Page 83

I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house.

Unprotected sex just feels better in a Waffle House bathroom.

I'm playing second fiddle to Justin Bieber - Bieber Fever is sweeping our house, and my girls have made it clear I'm no longer their favourite man.

Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday." And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house. And I said, "Well, I'll live in an apartment."

You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door.

I thought that conclusion that we leaped to right after the election, that has been disproven statistically so many times, I don't know why Republicans would advocate that advocating for comprehensive immigration reform is somehow a political solution for the Republicans losing a percentage of Hispanics. I probably have less appetite for this than either the Senate or colleagues in the House, certainly the Democrats and most likely members of the Republican Conference. They are still wrestling with trying to get their education up to a level where they can actually advocate for policy.

One thing you can say about Trump is that he is not a traditional patriarch. He has a wife who's not even in the White House. And you could say the same of Duterte in the Philippines and of Putin. They're parodies of masculinity. They're hyper-masculine, but they're also totally unsure of their masculinity, and they parade it around.

Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it goes back to Dracula, where someone dumps a crucifix in Count Dracula's face, and he pulls away and runs back into his house. That's not religion. That's some kind of juju, like a talisman.

A marriage was like a house under constant construction, each year seeing the completion of new rooms. A first-year marriage was a cottage; one that had gone on for twenty-seven years was a huge and rambling mansion. There were bound to be crannies and storage spaces, most of them dusty and abandoned, some containing a few unpleasant relics you would just as soon you hadn't found. But that was no biggie. You either threw those relics out or took them to Goodwill.

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

I have so much hair; I have a separate wig closet in my house.

When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.

I’m not afraid of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.

Any big televised event that starts at the crack of dawn is worth getting up for. I've done it all my life: big boxing matches, royal weddings, even TV-A.M.'s inaugural episode was enjoyed in pyjamas in my house.

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.

Life is a little different from what you would read in the mainstream media inside the White House.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.

I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

The Goal is not to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.