House Quotes
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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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I think a house should reflect the interests and personality of the occupant, but it takes time to gather together the objects one likes around oneself.
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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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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.
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I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.
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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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Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.
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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.
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My career has been very strange. My career is like a heart monitor. I get involved in a good project now and then to keep things going. And then I make things that I work on that I hope are going to be good so I can make a living and keep a roof over the heads of those little monsters I have in my house.
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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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Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully.
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The house, it's already been a-settin' here for a hundred years. It'll be right here tomorrow. It's today I must be livin'.
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In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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I just always knew I was going to be a star. I was always going to be rich so I could buy things for Mommy and Daddy, so that I could buy them a big house and we could have things.
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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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He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")
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Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing!
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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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Every single house has had death visit.
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All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life it's called a mission. For a day it's called a goal and a plan. For a parent it's called a belief in the unseen potential of a child. For all, it is the mental creation which always precedes the physical, or second, creation.
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
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Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.
