House Quotes - Page 37

• Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

  Francois Rabelais

  Useless, Arms, Study

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• Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.

  Richard Morris Hunt

  Hunting, Goal, Wish

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• The Soul is a house...Let it burn!

  Tim Seibles

  Passion, Fire, Soul

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• One genius is about all a house will hold.

  Isabel Paterson

  Genius

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• FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

  Stuart Symington

  Men, White, Good Man

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• 'Cause you can't buy a house in heaven!

  Lady Gaga

  Song, Heaven, Causes

  Song: Yoü And I, Album: Born This Way: The Remix, 2011

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• I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Dark, Thinking

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• This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

  Shirley Knight

  Dream, Morning, Swimming

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• Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks of our tentative houses and parts of them always remain. Friendship asks the truth and wants the truth, hollows and fills, ages with us, and we through it. It cradles us like family. It is ecology and mystery and language - all three. Our grown-up friendships - especially the really meaningful ones- model for our children what we want them to have throughout their lives.

  Beth Kephart

  Friendship, Meaningful, Children

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• We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.

  Ivan Reitman

  Animal, Reviews

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 17, 2000.

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• I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

  Bill Wyman

  Girl, Baby, Castles

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• Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It's what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists.

  Angelina Jolie

  Art, Children, Book

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• Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident - split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained - secret - into the body of the light!

  William Carlos Williams

  Light, Ideas, Tree

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.263, New Directions Publishing

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• When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn bronze, And gossamer floats bright and wet From trees that are their own sunset, Spring, summer, autumn I come here, And what is there to fear? And yet I never lose the feeling That someone else behind is stealing Or else in front has disappeared; Though nothing I have seen or heard, Makes me still walk beneath these boughs With cautious step as in a haunted house.

  Andrew Young

  Summer, Spring, Sunset

  Andrew Young (1963). “Quiet as moss: thirty-six poems”

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• There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Country, Garden, Cities

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.48

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• I wouldn't bet on a horse unless he came up to my house and told me to himself.

  Eubie Blake

  Horse, Gambling, Betting

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• I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

  Charles Dickens

  Sea, Theatre, Acting

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• When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician, a degree of energy is required to make it, and I'm not sure that it is always aggressive, but when you have a great deal of energy it can appear to be more aggressive than it is. In fact, I mean you can talk about a waterfall being aggressive, but in fact it is just a very powerful forward movement of energy, and although I think sometimes my engine house is a kind of anger.

  Simon McBurney

  Powerful, Mean, Thinking

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• In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.

  Ian Mckellen

  Night, Theatre, Directors

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• Consider why Germany, fighting a war on two fronts, desperate for fuel and materiel of every sort, would bother to load millions of Jews on railroad cars and transport them hundreds, even thousands, of miles to concentration camps. Camps built specifically to house them, where they would be fed, clothed, even tattooed so they could be inventoried...just to kill them.

  Edgar Steele

  War, Fighting, Two

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• It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack

  Herbert Hoover

  Office, Leader, May

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• I never leave the house without putting on my lipstick.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Red Lipstick, Gloss, Red Lips

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• It was the sort of house that glows with substance and savoir vivre in those advertisements for the best Scotch. It had wonderful bones.

  Robert A. Metzger

  Scotch, Substance, Advertising

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• Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

  Robert Walpole

  Hypocrite, Years, Names

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• No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.

  Gerald of Wales

  Firsts, Common, Hospitality

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