House Quotes - Page 11

• I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?

  Ian St John

  Christmas, Garden, Awards

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• In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.

  Keith Thibodeaux

  Christmas, Summer, Beach

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• I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Christmas, Party, Thinking

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• It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all?

  Thomas Traherne

  Kings, Wall, Men

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Names, People, Calling

  Babbitt ch. 1 (1922)

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• We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair.

  Newt Gingrich

  Hope, Failure, Fall

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• Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so they can see out. They move around in smaller boxes, painted different colours, with wheels on the corners. They need this box-culture because each person thinks of herself and himself as locked in a box called a 'body,' arms and legs, fingers to move pencils and tools, languages because they've forgotten how to communicate, eyes because they've forgotten how to see. Odd little planet. Wish you were here. Home soon.

  Richard Bach

  Moving, Rain, Home

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• Houses, like people, have personalities, and, like the personalities of people, they are partly molded by all that has happened to them.

  Louis Bromfield

  People, Personality, Happened

  Louis Bromfield (1939). “It Takes All Kinds”

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• If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do.

  Rod Dixon

  Running, Thinking, Race

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• Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

  Bao ?ai

  Country, Independent, Citizens

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• The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.

  J. D. Salinger

  Valhalla, Manhattan, Might

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• There's one little room in my house which is filled with all my clutter and bits and pieces. My sewing machine is up there, and all my knitting stuff. Its a place where I can go to relax and unwind. I don't get to spend a lot of time up there, but at least I know its there.

  Julia Roberts

  Knitting, Relax, Machines

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• When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

  Chinua Achebe

  Thought Provoking, Ceilings, Fallen

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.18, Heinemann

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• I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Inspirational, Dance, Interesting

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• That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Flirting, Soul

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.

  Miriam Toews

  Depression, Dark, Mirrors

  Miriam Toews (2001). “Swing Low: A Life”, p.179, Arcade Publishing

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• In the dream life you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Dream, Night, Trying

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• Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded.

  Paulo Coelho

  Air, Tree, Heaven

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• Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Lying, Heart

  1802 Of London. 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge', Complete poem. (Published 1807).

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• Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

  John Stuart Mill

  Marriage, Law, Mistress

  The Subjection of Women ch. 4 (1869)

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• In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Marriage, Rooms, Interpreter

  Stanley Kunitz (1983). “The Wellfleet Whale and Companion Poems”

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• Garbage clutters the house that has no dream.

  Michael Dolan

  Dream, Goal, Garbage

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• I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done.

  Bill Nighy

  Football, Sorry, Kids

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• That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Football, Kind

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

  Bryan Ferry

  Soccer, Football, Stars

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