House Quotes - page 4

I want to hang a map of the world in my house, and then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map, so it won't fall down. (Mitch Hedberg)
When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light. View quote
Carol Ann Duffy
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. View quote
Dean Koontz
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, ... We're going to California and Texas and New York. We're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. Then we're going to Washington D.C. to take back the White House. View quote
Howard Dean
Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler. View quote
W. C. Fields
If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression. View quote
Jim Carrey
Do you know what the good side of crack is If you're up at the right hour, you can get a VCR for 1.50. You can furnish your whole house for 10.95. View quote
Chris Rock
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year A handsome house to lodge a friend A river at my garden's end A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood. View quote
Jonathan Swift
If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he so sorely needs, he would begin fattening a missionary on the White House backyard come Wednesday. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Over the river, and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way, To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. (Lydia Maria Child)
One need not be a chamber to be haunted One need not be a house The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. View quote
Emily Dickinson
The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice. View quote
Denis Diderot
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. View quote
Erma Bombeck
I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny. View quote
Coco Chanel
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately. View quote
Scott Adams
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house. View quote
Eric Bogosian
Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind of really significant inner life of your own? Because the external things - the job, the house, the this, the that - do not really fill the place inside. View quote
Robertson Davies
In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. (Sydney Smith)
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. View quote
Toni Morrison
Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority. View quote
Sophocles
Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house. View quote
Franz Schubert
Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well. View quote
Elbert Hubbard