“So here we are in a country with more wheat and corn and more money in the bank, more cotton, more everything in the world-there's not a product that you can name that we haven't got more of than any other country ever had on the face of the earth-and yet we've got people starving. We'll hold the distinction of being the only nation in the history of the world that ever went to the poor house in an automobile.” PeopleWorldCountryEarthFacesHouseNamesNationsPoorHavensProductsDistinctionMore MoneyOther CountriesConsumerismWorld HistoryStarvingCornAutomobileWheatCottonOverconsumption Author:Will Rogers
“I want to be able to twitch my nose like that so I can clean my house! I have four children. I have been praying for that gift, but I haven't gotten it yet.” WantChildrenHas BeensI CanAbleHouseFourHavensPrayingOur ChildrenCleanNosesWitchcraft Author:Silver RavenWolf
“Our whole dream for our home was for it to be an artist's haven. So there are paint supplies; there's a piano with a microphone and a recorder right there to capture things right in the second. There's editing equipment. There are cameras. I think the only thing in our house that people would be surprised by is the efficiency.” PeopleThinkingWholeHomeDreamWould BeArtistHouseHavensCamerasPaintPianoCaptureEfficiencyEditingEquipmentSuppliesMicrophonesRecorders Author:Will Smith
“about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut, my letters are unwritten, the house is a shambles, and I sit here as happy as Mrs. Jellaby, though I am in 1836, not Africa. It won't go on like this, I shall fall over some obstacle, and wake out of my dreams with a black eye and broken shins: but while it does last, I daren't interrupt it. I haven't had such a spell of writing for nearly three years.” WritingYearsDoeBookDreamEyeLastsFallThreeHouseBlackHavensHairBrokenGoes OnTenLettersObstaclesSpellsThree YearsDevotedNew BooksUnwrittenBlack EyesShambles Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner
“I am fairly embraced by the Hollywood community, and I love making movies and I love acting, but I'm not real crazy about the Hollywood system. So the fact that they embrace me is a shock to me because I tell them to kiss my ass all the time. I don't understand why they haven't thrown me out on my ear. The other thing is I don't participate much. I have very few friends within the movie community. I hang out with some guys I've known forever. They're all broke and eat me out of house and home. But I stay home mostly and I don't go to the parties. Maybe that preserves me.” RealFactsHomeGuyHouseCommunityPartyActingKnownForeverCrazyHavensKissingHollywoodEarsEmbraceAssBrokePreservesShockThrownHanging OutLove MakingFew FriendsHouse And HomeKiss My Ass Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“Kids take up all available time - it's the basic law of parenthood. No matter how much time you give them, whether you work from eight to eight or are around the house all the time, you'll still feel you haven't been there enough for them.” GivingFeelsChildrenStillsMatterEnoughKidsLawHouseHavensAvailableEightParenthood Author:Myrna Blyth
“I believe that a lot of people in our society today, people who have been hurt and even people who haven't been hurt, get their worth and value from what they do, what they look like, what they own, what kind of job they have, what kind of house they live in, how much money they have, what social circles they're in, what level of education they have, especially even how other people respond to them. They feel better about themselves if everybody is giving a smiling nod to the way they look and all their choices.” PeopleIfsWayGivingFeelsBelieveLooksKindHas BeensTodayJobsValuesChoicesHouseI BelieveSocialHurtLevelsHavensCirclesOur SocietyFeel BetterBeen HurtSociety Today Author:Joyce Meyer
“President Bush said this Iraq situation looks like 'the rerun of a bad movie.' Well sure, there's a Bush in the White House, the economy's going to hell, we're going to war over oil. I've seen this movie, haven't I?” WellsLooksSaidWarActorsHousePresidentWhiteSituationEconomyHellHavensIraqOilMovieWhite HousePresident BushGoing To WarBad MoviesReruns Author:Jay Leno
“Politics is a damn expensive business. I had one hell of a time trying to raise money as a candidate. I had to put a second mortgage on our house to get that campaign started, and I ended up spending over $300,000 to get elected. I believe that public financing of federal election campaigns is the only thing that will insure good candidates and save the two-party system. It is the most degrading thing in the world to go out with your hat in your hand and beg for money, but that's what you have to do if you haven't got your own resources.” IfsWorldTryingBelieveTwoHandsHouseI BelievePartyHellHavensResourcesRaisesElectionSpendingCampaignsDamnCandidatesExpensiveHatsMortgageDegradingFinancingTwo Party System Author:Joe Biden
“I loved rain for making home seem home more deeply, and I suspect that is why, from as far back as I can remember, I also loved those books I read and the people I met in them and the worlds they opened up to me. Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.” PeopleWorldChildrenI CanBookHomeSeemsRememberHouseHavensNeededMetsRainProtectionSuspectsPermanence Author:Frederick Buechner
“My house used to be haunted, but the ghosts haven't been back since the night I tried on all my wigs.” UsedNightHouseHavensGhostUsed To BeWigs Author:Phyllis Diller
“But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.” YearsWellsMayDoneHomeInspirationCoursesFoundHouseHavensYears AgoImpressionComing Home Author:Arne Jacobsen
“I'm looking at the head of the household, and the house hasn't been run properly for a long time, ... Clinton was the first person ever to make a formal apology to black people for slavery, which was very warm and appreciated. But African-Americans haven't healed at all . The wound is still very open. And seeing the differences in how people live, it just puts salt in it- constantly . Seeing the way we're treated within these United States ... it burns you even more every day.” PeopleWayFirstsPersonsLongStillsStatesRunningHouseBlackDifferencesUnitedUnited StatesSeeingHavensLong TimeSlaveryClintonWarmWoundsTreatedAfrican AmericanBlack PeopleSaltApologyHouseholdFormalAppreciatedHealedFirst Person Author:Jill Scott
“Everybody, every tradesman that worked for Shafin or built my house got fully paid, well paid. Everybody got paid. I would like that to be said if I could because I haven't said it before, and it's important. People kind of think we left all these plumbers or electricians without getting paid.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsKindSaidImportantHouseLeftHavensBuiltPaidIf I CouldPlumberElectrician Author:Shane Filan
“Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.” ChildrenBookHouseHavensNeededRainProtectionPermanence Author:Frederick Buechner
“If you stay in a house and you go to the bathroom and there is no toilet paper, you can always slide down the banisters. Don't tell me you haven't done it.” IfsDoneHouseHavensPaperBathroomToiletsSlidesToilet Paper Author:Paul Merton
“"I'm going to show you I haven't given you permission because clearly you're not grown up enough to understand that, not having given you permission, you can't just come look in my house." And I won't know if they're coming and looking or not... so I put a piece of tape over it.” IfsKnowsLooksEnoughShowsHouseGivenPiecesHavensOver ItTapePermission Author:Melissa Leo