House Quotes - page 2

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. (Tennessee Williams)
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. View quote
Edmund Burke
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. View quote
Robert Frost
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. View quote
Steven Wright
A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in. View quote
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker. View quote
Woody Allen
Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything. View quote
Helen Thomas
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process. View quote
Mary McCarthy
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. (Tom Stoppard)
The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day. View quote
Dr. Seuss
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent. View quote
Terry Pratchett
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. View quote
Audre Lorde
A house is a machine for living in. View quote
Le Corbusier
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The house of laughter makes a house of woe. View quote
Edward Young
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. View quote
Ellen Goodman
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment than the TV set. (Harriet Van Horne)
There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you. View quote
Jack Osbourne
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. View quote
Henri Poincaré
If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers. View quote
Horatio Nelson