House Quotes - Page 24

• That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Rocks, World, Firsts

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• If we steal a man's purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man's money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, Islands, White

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• I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

  Ann Richards

  Tombstone, Thinking, Government

  "Former Texas Governor Ann Richards Dies at 73". www.foxnews.com. September 14, 2006.

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• I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

  Mary Stewart

  Believe, People, Doubt

  Mary Stewart (2011). “Stormy Petrel”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.

  Kent Haruf

  Men, Smoking, Kitchen

  FaceBook post by Kent Haruf from Oct 29, 2011

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• Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.

  Benjamin Banneker

  Gun, Doors, Two

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• For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle, and mine is this: that I will pay close attention to this world I find myself in. 'My heart keeps open house,' was the way the poet Theodore Roethke put it in a poem. And rendering in language what one sees through the opened windows and doors of that house is a way of bearing witness to the mystery of what it is to be alive in this world.

  Julia Alvarez

  Writing, Heart, Doors

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• Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American men who failed. With wit and sympathy, Sandage illuminates the grey world of credit evaluation, a little studied smothering arm of capitalism. This is history as it should be, a work of art exploring the social cost of our past.

  William S. McFeely

  Beautiful, Art, Writing

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• If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Roots, America, Left

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• This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

  Bella Abzug

  House Of Representatives, Representatives

  Bella S. Abzug, Mim Kelber (1984). “Gender gap: Bella Abzug's guide to political power for American women”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and all milk on the other, the unsexed scandal-monger hies from house to house, pouring balm from its weeping eyes on the wounds it inflicts with its stabbing tongue.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Heart, Eye, Tears

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.71

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• The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement. For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.

  Benjamin Tucker

  School, Rome, Names

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays”, Ralph Myles Pub

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• There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?

  Auberon Waugh

  Suicide, Boys, Hands

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• If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some.

  Kelly Ripa

  Cheesecake, Ifs

  "Kelly: Live & Uncensored". Interview with Cortney Pellettieri, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 7, 2012.

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• The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with.

  Jill Abramson

  White, Numbers, Criminals

  Interview with John Seigenthaler, america.aljazeera.com. January 21, 2014.

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• So in my mind I own a lot of house records still

  Mark Spitz

  Mind, Records, Stills

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• In a lifetime among cops since, I've noted that investigators who piece together the aftermaths of home invasion murders tend to keep their guns on all the time after that, even when off duty in their own house, and keep them by the bed when they go to sleep.They have learned from the helplessly-murdered dead

  Massad Ayoob

  Sleep, Home, Gun

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• I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.

  Jack Dempsey

  I Can

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• There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your house and criticize your little ones? I say it's not whether we should be ashamed of our fathers and mothers of the Old Confederacy. I say it's a question of whether they should be ashamed of us.

  Calvin Johnson

  Mother, Father, Littles

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• Leinster House does not inspire the brightest ideas.

  Lord Edward FitzGerald

  Ideas, Inspire, Doe

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• Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Drinking, Writing, Glasses

  "Amichai, Israel´s Most Important and Influential Poet, Dies at 76", www.nytimes.com. September 22, 2000.

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• The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

  Stephen Leacock

  Science, Swag, Economy

  'Literary Lapses' (1910) 'Boarding-House Geometry'

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• I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Children, Thinking, Years

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• Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.

  Tanya Tucker

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• In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Kings, Equality, Kingdoms

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.141, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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