House Quotes
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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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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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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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I've always enjoyed the record shops...they gave me a reason to leave my house.
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You could walk out of the house, but you always returned home.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.
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Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing!
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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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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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Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
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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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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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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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You've read half the books in this house? This whole house?" "Well, approximately half." Sticky said. "To be more accurate, I suppose I've read more like" - his eyes went up as he calculated - "three sevenths? Yes, three sevenths." "Only three sevenths?" said Kate, pretending to look disappointed. "And here I was prepared to be impressed.
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Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.
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I made my own house be my gallows.
