House Quotes

• Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Book
  • Atmosphere
  • Hospitality

• New York has a deep culture of house and dance music, and to be able to tap into that is my way of shutting off. I go to friends' parties and local spots around the area: places I can go to, have a dance, and forget about being an actor and the attention.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Culture

• I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Want
  • Learn
  • Surf

• The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • House
  • Hand
  • Painting

• I actually found CrossFit on a run from my house in Orange County. I moved around with it for a while, which is the best part about it. I love it, but it was something I did because I enjoyed the camaraderie aspect of it, not so much the competing side of it.

  

  Lauren Gibbs
  • House

• Laziness in prayer is like handing the devil a key to your house.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Prayer
  • Devil
  • Laziness

• For me, I actually come from an electronic dance music background: house music, electro house, trance music, even. When I was coming out of school, basically, I discovered Brain Fever, Flying Lotus, J Dilla and all that. That was when I got excited about hip-hop and when the Flume project started.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • School
  • Brain

• Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergartner.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Think
  • You
  • Now

• My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • Decision

• We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Wish
  • Win

• Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• My parents were distrustful of the outside world. They didn't think much good came out of it... The outside world was this strange place that was not so much dangerous as not as interesting as what went on in the house.

  

  Kevin Wilson
  • World
  • Good
  • Parents

• Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and all milk on the other, the unsexed scandal-monger hies from house to house, pouring balm from its weeping eyes on the wounds it inflicts with its stabbing tongue.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Heart
  • Tears
  • Wounds

• I chose my house because I loved the fact that there was a really busy road with lots of things to stare at.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Road
  • Loved
  • Busy

• I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wouldn't promote it, and I wouldn't tour. Actually, it wasn't a very good album anyway - it got buried underneath the pits of Hell, I suppose.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Good
  • House
  • Flying

• I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter.

  

  David Ayer
  • School
  • High
  • Guy

• I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals.

  

  Konrad Lorenz
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Garden

• If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

  

  Imran Khan
  • You
  • Fire
  • Try

• A Hair perhaps divides the False and True; Yes; and a single Alif were the clue - Could you but find it - to the Treasure-house, And peradventure to The Master too;

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • True
  • Single
  • Hair

• As a kid, I'd eat at my mother's house, then go down the road to my girlfriend's and eat, and then sometimes go to my friend's house and eat again. I could gain five pounds in a day. In a week, there wouldn't be a scale to weigh me.

  

  Bruce Smith
  • Mother
  • Friend
  • Road

• A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.

  

  William Feather
  • Home
  • House
  • Hotel

• When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Song
  • Singing

• The minute he arrived at his own parents' house and was confronted by the smallness of the rooms, the old walls covered with dusty calendars, and passepartout pictures of animals, the electrical wires snaking and dangling loosely from the ceiling, the buzzing fluorescent lamp that never lit properly, transforming the house into a gloomy, dusty cubicle, he wanted to return to the city. He could not properly splice in movie landscapes here, because everything was too familiar, and because he was too connected with the droning quarrels.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Movie
  • Parents
  • City

• I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Dance
  • Gun
  • Clothes

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