House Quotes - Page 38

• Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up and two down, with digital chimneys like pigs' tits on the rooftops sending up heat and smoke into the cold trough of a windy sky. Stars hid like snipers, taking aim now and again when clouds gave them a loophole. Winter was an easy time for him to hide his secrets, for each dark street patted his shoulder and became a friend, and the gaseous eye of each lamp glowed unwinking as he passed.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Stars, Eye, Passion

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• Our baby is safe, and it's just a house.

  Jennifer Dunn

  Baby, Safe

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• Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.

  Vivien Leigh

  Fun, Spring, War

  "Fictional character: Scarlett". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• ...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put on clothes or choose a book to read or a theater to go to, like choosing a day to be lived, within the limits grated by other destinies or chances.

  Ettore Sottsass

  Book, Destiny, Clothes

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• Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

  John Ruskin

  Character, Design, May

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• In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.

  John Ruskin

  Independent, Sky, Design

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• How lucky I've been to live in such beautiful places and able to make them as I dreamed. I've been lucky. I've adored my houses more than my friends (or husbands).

  Nancy Lancaster

  Beautiful, Husband, Design

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• I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Art, Mean, Giving

  Penny Sparke, Elsie De Wolfe (2005). “Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration”, Acanthus PressLlc

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• A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's a place we belong. Love is what makes a home, not the contents inside the house or the number on the door. It's the people waiting for us across the threshold, the people who will take us in their arms after a ad day and kiss us good night and good morning everyday for the rest of our lives.

  Hermann Hesse

  Good Night, Morning, Home

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• The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them they could throw him into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death. When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his cap and address him as 'Sir'

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Land, World

  George Orwell (2004). “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.83, Penguin UK

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• My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.

  Albert Finney

  Girlfriend, Nice, Two

  Interview with Caffeinated Clint, moviehole.net. December 3, 2003.

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• You know, I have guys that are almost stalkers... it is very strange. I had this one guy that e-mailed me off my site, and thought we were boyfriend and girlfriend. He then came to my house in London, I do not know how he found it.

  Caprice Bourret

  Girlfriend, Guy, London

  "Caprice Bourret...the sexiest fish in the pond". www.askmen.com.

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• I want to tell people that family violence happens to anybody, no matter how nice your house is, no matter how intelligent you are.

  Rosie Batty

  Nice, Intelligent, People

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• Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.

  Nick Dandolos

  Funny, Money, Humorous

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• Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Insanity, Staying, Hospitals

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.299, Yale University Press

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• American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this is due to a media that in this country is suppressed by Washington and by the owners of this media, who often tend to be corporate entities close to the [White House] and very often are arms manufacturers with a vested interest in chaos [in] the Middle East. And as a result Americans do not actually get both sides of the story.

  Denis Halliday

  Country, Media, White

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• There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.

  Meg Tilly

  Morning, Wish, Flu

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• I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion.

  Scott Stapp

  Passion, Order, Decision

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• Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three months, then one day I'm cleaning my office and decided that I'd better read this before the guy calls me back. I never put it down, bro.

  Luis Guzman

  Night, Office, Guy

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• Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Faithful, Watches, Honest

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• When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.

  Anna Quindlen

  Men, Helping, Cleaning

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• Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.

  Thelma Harper

  Matter, Cleaning, Stink

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• Dogs do not grasp the concept of house cleaning.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Cleaning, Concepts

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• People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.

  Art Buchwald

  Glasses, People, Cleaning

  Art Buchwald (1986). “"You can fool all of the people all the time"”, Fawcett Books

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• I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty years from now not one of them will sit on some therapist's couch complaining because their mother didn't spend enough time vacuuming up glitter.

  Joyce Maynard

  Mother, Children, Years

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