House Quotes
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I bought my first house when I was 24 for £19,500 and it was sold two years ago for £256,000. I've always made profit on my houses.
Geoff Capes
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God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house.
Annie Oakley
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It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.
Hermann Hesse
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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.
Erma Bombeck
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I get so excited when my daughter says something new, which she is doing every day. I can leave the house for a few hours, come back and meet a totally different person. That's very exciting to me.
Viola Davis
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I've learned to really enjoy video games. It's really toxic to have in your house, because it's really distracting.
Carrie Brownstein
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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.
Catherynne M. Valente
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In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances
Rumi
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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Every single house has had death visit.
Sandra Cisneros
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Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing!
Ernest Cline
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I feel strongly that the state would not be well-served by having a governor and speaker of the House from the same family and have never planned to run for governor if that would be the case. With Speaker Madigan planning to continue in office, I will not run for governor.
Lisa Madigan
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It's nice having a bear about the house.
Michael Bond
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One of the traps of auditioning is walking into that room feeling as though you're a guest in someone's house, and being really careful not to spill wine on the carpet. What you have to do is walk in there as though you're the host.
Wentworth Miller
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Think of the majesty of that moment in this dying world's history, when Jesus Christ declared that to the Christian death was only a sleep. Outside of that small dwelling in Capernaum, a great race of men rushed and toiled as they harassed continents and seas; mighty events marshaled themselves into annals and pageants. What was inside? In one inconspicuous chamber of a now forgotten house, man's Redeemer, unobserved, martyred man's final enemy. There Immanuel subdued death forever.
Charles Seymour Robinson
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Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.
Eudora Welty
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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.
John Roger Stephens
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Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.
Nicholas Andrea Dandolos
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Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.
Jennifer Donnelly
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Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.
Eudora Welty
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A SWAT team surrounded my house and came in every door. But it happened because on the day that we split up, Madonna developed a concern that if she were to return to the house, she would get a very severe haircut.
Sean Penn
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It is better that you live in a one-room garret with a leaky roof, than live in a large house, the mortgage payments of which are causing your colon to turn cancerous!
Stuart Wilde
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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.
Hank Stuever
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The house of magic has many rooms.
Eugene Burger