House Quotes - Page 36

• Congratulations on your well deserved retirement,
  Wishing you every happiness in the years ahead.
  No lying about your age, more lying around the house
  After lying much longer in bed

  John Walter Bratton

  Retirement, Lying, Congratulations

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• Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.

  Liam Neeson

  School, Talking, Important

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• Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.

  Brent Musburger

  Thanks, Folks, Down The Road

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• All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

  Ed McMahon

  Caring, Needs, Surroundings

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• Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.

  Jay Inslee

  Tolerance, Constitution, Should

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• A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Dog, People, Special

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• Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

  Christian Lacroix

  Sister, Book, Our Generation

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• I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great.

  Susan Boyle

  Sister, Brother, Cat

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• All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  White, Welcome, Talent

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• It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Confused, Character, White

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• I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

  Barry Levinson

  Hands, Television, Puppets

  Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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• In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

  Arthur Miller

  Cameras, Quotation Marks, Television

  "TV's Custom-Tailores 'Salesman'" by Don Shewwy, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1985.

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• For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

  Douglas Sirk

  Dirty, Naughty, Hands

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• Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.

  Nancy Johnson

  Cells, Support, Research

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• The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.

  Bill McCollum

  Night, Reform, Care

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• That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.

  Naomi Watts

  Success, Play, Dresses

  "Watts earns luxury of being choosy" by Hugh Hart, www.sfgate.com. August 3, 2003.

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• I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Soul, Ease, Pleasure

  'The Palace of Art' (1832) st. 1

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• A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

  Christine Lahti

  Swag, Pieces, Meteors

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• Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  House Of Cards, Interesting, Leaving

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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• And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses; howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing-house, the clatter of presses, the blowing of dry dust and stray paper, foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges.

  Ezra Pound

  Dust, Sweat, Orange

  Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.152, New Directions Publishing

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• The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.

  Macy Gray

  Skins, Red, Leopards

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• 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

  Rome, Eugenics, Half

  "State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherin They Differ" by Benjamin R. Tucker, praxeology.net. 1888.

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• The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

  Goldwin Smith

  Discipline, Soldier, Citizens

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I’m not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at — just walking around Williamsburg, for example — is a great opportunity for ideas. I’ve been here before, I’ve seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they’ve attached a light to a house.

  Martha Stewart

  Eye, Learning, Opportunity

  "Discovering Everyday Good Things". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Stressed, Chaos, Tendencies

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