House Quotes - Page 28

• If you're a burglar, it's no good waiting about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them and come out. I don't advocate that obviously, it's just an analogy.

  Ian Holloway

  Swag, Waiting, Bags

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

  Skitch Henderson

  Demise, Orchestra, Hollywood

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• At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question after question at the reporters: Who moved over from Commerce to CRP with Stans? What about Mitchell's secretary? Why won't anybody say when Liddy went to the White House or who worked with him there? Mitchell and Stans both ran the budget committee, right? What does that tell you? Then Sussman would puff on his pipe, a satisfied grin on his face.

  Carl Bernstein

  Heart, White, Age

  Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1999). “All the President's Men”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• We're not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience for other people. Like, take the law that says you can't go into someone else's houseI have a house, so, hey, I like that law. The guy without a house-what's he think of it? Stay out in the rain, schnook.That’s what the law means to him

  Paul Castellano

  Children, Rain, Mean

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• House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.

  Uwe Boll

  Rights, Games, Scripts

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• Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.

  Caleb Cushing

  Country, Rights, People

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• And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.

  Caleb Cushing

  Wall, Voice, People

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• I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.

  Richard Ernst

  Air, Parent, Scary

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• Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

  Daisy Fuentes

  Discipline, Parent, Fit

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.

  Trevor Phillips

  Running, Real, Ambition

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• I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good.

  Ivan Reitman

  Animal, Stripes, Proud

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• Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with nothing but a guitar and conquers the world. And we've done that again, and again, and again – Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Rogers, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters.

  T Bone Burnett

  Kids, Guitar, Conquer The World

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• The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.

  Frank D. Gilroy

  Want, Lord

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• Perhaps my children will live in stone houses and walled towns - Not I

  Genghis Khan

  Children, Stones, Towns

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• The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.

  William Christopher Handy

  Eye, Names, Clerks

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• I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.

  Sharon Horgan

  Beautiful, Tudors, Example

  "My East End: Sharon Horgan, actor". Interview With Kathy Sweeney, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2012.

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• What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House.

  Joseph Hume

  Reason, Should, Farmers

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• I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

  David Johansen

  Listening, Records, My Own

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• No one, and I mean no one, comes into our house and pushes us around.

  Dan Devine

  Mean

  "Fictional character: Dan Devine". "Rudy", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• "Angelophany" is the visible or otherwise tangible manifestation of angels to human beings. Abraham Lincoln frequently mentioned that he was visited by angels at the White House.

  James R. Lewis

  Angel, White, Tangible

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• I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Father, Book

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• I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wish, Chemicals, Affinity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.7, Harvard University Press

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• If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Organization, Despair, Looks

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.7

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• I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.

  Ashley Rickards

  Lists, Losing, No Excuses

  "It's Official: Awkward's Ashley Rickards Is Freaking Hilarious and She Shared Her Phone Pics to Prove It" by Caitlin Brody, www.glamour.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I'm an organizational fanatic. I created a locker room that the children pass through when they come in the house. Each child has a personal locker, and every day when they arrive home from school, they dump their stuff there-backpacks, shoes, soccer uniforms. I organize them by season.

  Kathryn Sansone

  Soccer, Children, Home

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May 2003.

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