House Quotes - Page 35

• As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.

  Melissa Bean

  Impact, Mind Your Own Business, Small Business

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• Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2 million acres of forest from development, leading to the loss of 30,000 lumber-related jobs and the annual loss of 1.1 billion board feet of lumber. This has driven up the cost of houses by at least $4,000 each. In addition, regulators ordered a Kansas City bank to install a Braille keypad on its drive-through automatic teller machine, presumably to aid any blind drivers. The list goes on and on.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Business, Loss

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• We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

  Walter Benjamin

  Life, Long, Enemy

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• He could start a row in an empty house.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Empty, Manchester United

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• Christmas Eve Saint Francis and Saint Benedight Blesse this house from wicked wight; From the night-mare and the goblin, That is hight good fellow Robin: Keep it from all evil spirits, Fairies, weezels, rats, and ferrets: From curfew time To the next prime.

  Thomas Cartwright

  Time, Night, Evil

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• For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Time, Liars, Aunt

  Hilaire Belloc (1957). “Cautionary Tales for Children”, p.7, Library of Alexandria

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• They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow, in their cooler moments, by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at this time also it meet their approbation, it is executed; otherwise it is rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober, is always a second time examined after they have been drinking.

  Herodotus

  Time, Drinking, Wine

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• I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Brother, Dad

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide down the slide we had in the back of the White House. Sliding the dog down that slide is probably my first memory.

  John F. Kennedy

  Dog, Memories, Father

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• Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House

  Irwin Shaw

  Men, White, Literature

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• Too often when we're buying or building a house we do not consider each room. We are carried away by one charming feature and are blind to details that will give us trouble later on.

  Dorothy Draper

  Giving, Details, Rooms

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• You may concentrate on appearances all through the rest of your house, but in the bedroom comfort should be supreme. I think that bedrooms should also be very intimate rooms-they should express your personal preferences in every way...Of all the rooms in the house your bedroom is yours.

  Dorothy Draper

  Thinking, Comfort, May

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• What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Giving, Goal, May

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Yea, when mortality dissolves,  Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens  Is lighted by the smile of God!

  Alice Cary

  Heaven, Hours, Mortality

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• I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Journey, Should Have, Literature

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.26, BoD – Books on Demand

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• You could only draw conclusions about my personal sexual politics if you proceed from the assumption that I was presenting the characters as the way it is and the way it ought to be. But both are clearly defined as deranged – it’s love among the mad. He’s a psycopath, so is she. She’s prepared to throw him to the dogs until he works out the code, he’s prepared to let her nearly get executed. They’re not really going to buy a house and a Volvo together. I’m not saying this is how people should date!

  Steven Moffat

  Dog, Character, People

  "'There is a clue everybody's missed': Sherlock writer Steven Moffat interviewed" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2012.

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• When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.

  David Eagleman

  Eye, Light, Hair

  FaceBook post by David Eagleman from May 31, 2016

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• I found a nanny/child care position in Beverly Hills taking care of a 3-year-old and a 17-year-old. They had a large, wealthy house. I learned that I liked the way rich people lived. I learned that they were not smarter than me.

  Mark Burnett

  Children, Years, People

  "Mark Burnett Started His Career Jumping Out Of Airplanes And Transporting Prisoners On Ships" by Stephen Chao, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Money, Crazy, Ephemeral

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• If I have a right to a job, education, health care or a house, then I must be able to specify the person or persons who owe me any or all of these things.

  Richard Allen Epstein

  Jobs, Care, Able

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• If a house has a center of gravity, first of all there is stability. From stability there is serenity. I think this leads to a pleasant feeling

  Junzo Yoshimura

  Thinking, Serenity, Feelings

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• I'm not homophobic. I'm not scared of my house.

  Peter Kay

  Scared, Homophobic

  Peter Kay (2009). “The Sound of Laughter”, p.135, Random House

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• I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Book, Years, Used

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• I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Publishing House, Hollywood, Agents

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• In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

  Tim Cahill

  Paychecks

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