House Quotes - Page 30

• How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?

  Kamisese Mara

  Fire, Watches

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• There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other people. Very often they're not around. There's also a metaphysical loneliness. We all feel it. The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share. You take a step in a house, you start moving around the house, no one else moves with you. You're walking by yourself.

  David Ignatow

  Loneliness, Moving, Book

  David Ignatow, Ralph J. Mills (1980). “Open between us”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.

  Phoebe Cary

  Children, Heart, Men

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• Is it true cats wont stay in a house when it's haunted?

  Jeff Valdez

  Cat

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• When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss Of Coney Island.' That was more of a dramatic play. It was a small theater house. This was the first time I was literally on the road, doing a play, for four months.

  Vivica Fox

  Islands, Play, Theatre

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. February 17, 2010.

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• So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Mexican, Citizens, Manhattan

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• I clean my own utensils, my house and I even travel alone. I don't know what the life of a superstar is like.

  Esha Gupta

  Utensils, Superstar, Clean

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• The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns inward, away from whatever corresponds beyond its four walls.At the same time, the television is the families chief connection to the world. The physical envelope of the house itself no longer connects their lives to the outside in any active way; rather it seals them from it.The outside world has become an abstraction filtered through television, just as the weather is an abstraction filtered through air conditioning.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Wall, Weather, Air

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• If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.

  Eric Braeden

  Pay, Sticks, Wonderful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.

  Frank Carson

  Ideas, People, Middle East

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• I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.

  Phillip Lim

  Flower, Orchids, Two

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• Although we strap time to our wrists, stuff it into our pockets, hang it on our walls, a perpetually moving picture for every room of the house, it can still run away, elude and evade, and show itself again only when there are minutes remaining and there is nothing left to do except wait till there are none.

  Monique Truong

  Running, Wall, Moving

  Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he’s finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son’s diaper; his hands remember the rifle.

  Anthony Swofford

  War, Believe, Son

  Anthony Swofford (2008). “Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

  Pierre Charron

  Heart, May, Riches

  Pierre Charron (1707). “Of wisdom: Three books. Written originally in French, by the Sieur de Charron. With an account of the author. Made English by George Stanhope, ...”

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• A man who has been born into the house of a warrior and yet places no loyalty in his heart and thinks only of the fortune of his position will be flattering on the surface and construct schemes in his heart, will forsake righteousness and not reflect on his shame, and will stain the warrior's name of his household to later generations. This is truly regrettable.

  Torii Mototada

  Loyalty, Heart, Warrior

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• The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.

  Berton Braley

  Jobs, Best Job, Rivers

  Berton Braley, “Opportunity”

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• My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.

  Victor Cruz

  Mom, Kids, Sacrifice

  "Serby’s Sunday Q&A with Victor Cruz". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. August 22, 2010.

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• I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.

  Victor Cruz

  Twelve, Six Packs, Doughnut

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• I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.

  Christie Hefner

  Thinking, Economy, Allowance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.

  Daniel Johns

  Fall, Long, Candle

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• Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available.

  Ira Levin

  White, Guy, Rooms

  Ira Levin (1985). “Three by Ira Levin”, Random House (NY)

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• My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I paired it very vibrant colors and - bugs I think that they're pretty. And I think that they're fascinating and they're natural.

  Emily Procter

  Thinking, Color, Antiques

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• What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.

  Emily Procter

  Cop, Clean, Coming Back

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• I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.

  Peter Tork

  Car, Listening To Music

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• Heads of warring nations could learn a lot about how to achieve lasting peace by watching dogs and cats who live in the same house.

  Blaize Clement

  Dog, Cat, Achieve

  Blaize Clement (2010). “Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.26, Minotaur Books

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