House Quotes - Page 23

• I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me, begging for attention, ignored. At dark, I kept reading, first on the couch, a bologna sandwich in one hand, then in my bed, by the light of a 60-watt bulb hanging from the ceiling on an orange drop cord. When my mother came in from her job as a maid and unplugged my chandelier, I replayed the story in my head until it was crowded out by dreams. I woke the next morning, smelling biscuits, and reached for the book again.

  Rick Bragg

  Mother, Dream, Morning

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• It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at work. He later wrote of his astonishment at finding the that the British Parliament actually made laws and fixed punishments for their infraction - because unlike Muslims the English had not accepted a divine law revealed from heaven and therefore had to resort to such unsatisfactory expedients. Muslims still understand the expression 'the rule of law' very differently than do most Westerners.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Taken, Expression, Law

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• Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. It’s night. Sometimes when the wind blows the way it’s blowing now, we lose the power. But for now it’s on, and so let’s talk very honestly about fear. Let’s talk very rationally about moving to the rim of madnessand... and perhaps over the edge.

  Stephen King

  Rain, Moving, Fall

  Stephen King (2008). “Night Shift”, p.11, Anchor

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• I enjoy what I do every minute of the day, even when the going gets tough. When I first began writing, I used to work at a desk in the bedroom, of a small development house. My three sons all under the age of 3 would come running in and out of the room every minute.

  Ed McBain

  Running, Writing, Son

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• I had fun coming every day and playing in front of a packed house - it was exciting.

  Jason Giambi

  Fun, Exciting, Fronts

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• Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

  Gore Vidal

  Animal, Might, Way

  "How guest Hans Christian Andersen destroyed his friendship with Dickens" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2017.

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• You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.

  Tom Robbins

  White, Genius, Perfume

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.70, Bantam

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• Other people might have family - three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn't exist. I'm going to give everything away. Everything has been transferred to charitable trusts. There is no question about that. The question is where, not if.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Kids, People, Giving

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• The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.

  Maureen Dowd

  Sacrifice, White, Appreciate

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• The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

  Leon Edel

  Writing, Self, Subjects

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• I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

  Ina Garten

  Fun, White, Office

  "Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 24, 2008.

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• I have a house in Stratford and I got a house in Atlanta but I don't really live anywhere--I live on the road. I'm kind of like living in a suitcase, travelling so much.

  Justin Bieber

  Atlanta, Suitcases, Kind

  "Maclean's Interview: Justin Bieber". Interview with Nicholas Köhler, www.macleans.ca. December 15, 2009.

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• People ask for this life, but they don't really understand what comes with it. People just see the outside and that looks good - big houses, cars, girls, but you never see how the person is feeling deep down inside. Me personally, being a man, I'm going to feel better displaying all of this and pouring my heart out on each record.

  Bow Wow

  Girl, Heart, Feel Better

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• The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers

  Barbara Boxer

  Change, Country, White

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• All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Pay

  'Afterthoughts' (1931) 'Other People'

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• In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the pride and vanity of human reason enter into and pollute our worship, and the houses that should be of God and for God, alone, where he is to be honored with submissive faith, are too often merely schools of metaphysical and useless distinctions. The nation is sectarian, rather than Christian.

  James F. Cooper

  Christian, Lying, School

  "The American Democrat: The Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, p. 207, April 1, 2010.

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• Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

  Aaron Neville

  Mother, Growing Up, Growing

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• I sing around the house, in the shower

  Aaron Neville

  Showers

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• I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.

  Rachel Stevens

  Football, Patriotic, Fans

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• I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Thinking, People, Missing

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• The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad absurdum of the employee who accepts a lower wage in return for permanence of his employment. But the lowest paid employees can be and are laid off, and so are wives. They have no savings, no skills which they can bargain with elsewhere, and they must bear the stigma of having been sacked.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Skills, Wife

  Germaine Greer (1971). “The female eunuch”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures. Only two color ones came out all right. My favorite picture of Marilyn hangs always on the wall in my office. It was taken on the little patio of her Hollywood house.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Wall, Taken, Black And White

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• The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Real, Glasses, Rocks

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• People who live in seven houses shouldn't throw stones

  Amy Klobuchar

  People, Stones, Seven

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• Years from now, years and years, one of those ships will bring me back, me and my nine Brazilian brats. Because yes, they must see this, these lights, the river -- I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

  Holly Golightly

  New York, Light, Years

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