House Quotes
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Do not tell me that we're not drilling. We're drilling all over this country. I mean, I guess there's some - there are a few spots where we're not drilling. We're not drilling in the national mall. We're not drilling at your house. I guess we could try to have like, you know, 200 oil rigs in the middle of Chesapeake Bay.
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My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.
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It’s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. I’ve stopped in Macy’s and written on a dry-goods counter and then suddenly had a whole piece of writing for myself that was accomplished, where earlier in my life I felt I had to spend a week in a house somewhere in the country in order to get that. Conditions change.
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A man is so in the way in the house.
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I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.
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We had an open house when we launched the book and 900 people passed through in the first four hours.
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There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.
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The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.
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I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suckers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on one, no one seemed to care where the pacifier had been.
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With the first money I ever made I bought my Mommy and Daddy a car, and helped them fix their house up.
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Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.
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We got Arbitron diaries at my house in the 1980s, when the family was down to just my mother and me, and we tried for a couple of days to fill it out I of course treated it like we'd been asked to write a new book of the Bible, but we got really bored with it and gave it up.
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.
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In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.
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The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.
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I like things that feel like they're timeless and really well made and tailored... things that make me feel confident when I leave the house.
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When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line when you hit that number - maybe own a house or be married.
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Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.
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A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.
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For there 's nae luck about the house, There 's nae luck at a'; There 's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman 's awa'.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
