Best House Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.”

House Five Walking Miles Shopping Impressed

Author:Elinor Lipman

“I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.”

Ifs Thinking Dream Might House Childhood Conversation Great Things Childhood Friend

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.”

Important Real Moving House Opinion Successful Honest New York Agents Being Successful Aggressive Publishing Aspire Publishing House

Author:John Lescroart

“The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.”

Looks House Rooms Comfortable

Author:Adolf Loos

“The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.”

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Author:Adolf Loos

“I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.”

Play Used House Stuff Son Musician My Family Guitar Used To Be My Son Annoying Electric Frustrated Garage Acoustics Playing Guitar Metallica Electric Guitar

Author:Kevin McKidd

“At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.”

Needs Would Be House Hours Risk Fronts Computer Sitting Mail

Author:Marian McPartland

“The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.”

Enough Bigs House Space Rooms Records Kitchen Covered Turmoil Accommodate Dining Dining Rooms

Author:Marian McPartland

“When I walk down the boardwalk,people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.”

People House Walks Boardwalks Boardwalk Empire

Author:Mary Matalin

“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.”

Heart Littles Has Beens I Can House Careers Strange Involved Projects Be Good Monsters Now And Then Roof Get Involved

Author:Michael Madsen

“Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.”

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Author:Michelle Malkin

“Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.”

Ifs Years House Talking Crime Changed England Prison Caught Homosexual

Author:Patrick Macnee

“Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.”

Kind Different House Argument Dollars Congress Different Kinds Funding Pentagon

Author:Rachel Maddow

“If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms with the local affiliates in the largest market in your area. I mean you don't want to antagonize them.”

Ifs Knows Want Mean Important Running House Term Race Areas Locals Representatives House Of Representatives Reelection

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.”

Country Kids House Growing Up Growing Vegetables

Author:Stella McCartney

“My house is completely organized from my closets to my drawers.”

House Organized Closets Drawers

Author:Tia Mowry

“It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.”

Giving Hard Moving House Car Give Me Stability New Car

Author:Jodie Foster

“When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.”

Actors House Stage Car New York Summer Garage Making A Living Stage Actors

Author:William H. Macy

“I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum used to put me in my pram because I was so full-on.”

Kids Used House Bits Mum Handful Prams

Author:Zayn Malik

“Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.”

Wells School House Party Rocks College Band High School Touring Rock Bands Togas

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign.”

People Ifs Looks Seems Games House Issues Car News Crisis Library Driven Setting Settings Missiles Cuban Cuban Missile Crisis

Author:Graham Nelson

“If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!”

Ifs House Fire

Author:Jean Nouvel

“I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!”

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Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.”

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Author:Paul Nurse

“Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.”

Years Littles Two House Names Four Mouths Rivers Miles Village Four Years Grandfather

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.”

War Shows Home House White Issues Focus Length White House Shifting

Author:Ron Fournier

“AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“I have a Kenwood charcoal grill. In our house, if anybody is cooking, it's me. I love making burgers. I love making pork tenderloin. Lamb chops I do on the grill a lot. But you just can't beat brats.”

Ifs House Beats Cooking Lambs Love Making Pork Burgers Brat Charcoal Pork Chops

Author:Nick Offerman

“For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.”

House White Example Cat Clinton Finished Administration White House Privileged

Author:Peter R. Orszag

“You should see my house. It's sort of explosive. Like a crazy person lives there.”

Should Persons House Crazy Explosives Crazy Person

Author:Sandra Oh

“In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.”

Way Stories Film Found House Approach Productions Opening Storytelling Nonfiction Aspire December Opening Up

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.”

Political Certain House Belief Nations White Situation Broken Congress Addresses White House Voters Political Systems

Author:Ron Fournier

“In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?”

People Firsts Age America Certain Asks House Shots Catchers

Author:Marisha Pessl

“I eat innocent meat, the house wife I will beat, the prolife I will kill. What you won't do, I will.”

House Wife Violence Beats Innocent Meat Violence Against Women Prolife

Author:Marilyn Manson

“We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be stampeded into giving it publicity...The less discussion there is concerning it the more sales resistance will be created. We therefore appeal to you to refrain from comment on this book...It is our conviction that a general compliance with this request will sound the warning to other publishing houses against engaging in this type of venture. (Signed) Richard E. Gutstadt, Director.”

“I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of Speyer and Company, and married a grand-daughter of Mr. Wolf, one of the founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Company], the multi-millionaire, for many years. I knew him when he was a patriotic German. I knew him when he was a patriotic American. Naturally, when he wanted to enter the House of Commons, he joined the 'patriotic party.'”

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Author:Denis Fahey

“My favorite place in the world is my dad's house in Montauk.”

World House Dad My Dad My Favorite Places In The World Favorite Places Montauk

Author:Dylan Lauren

“Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.”

House Grew Mom Grew Up Ran Portuguese

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.”

Trying Order House Europe

Author:Jacob Lew

“In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.”

Needs Choices House Car

Author:Xavier Niel

“I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me.”

People Different School House Taken Months Mets Members Traveled Family Members Time Off Extended Family

Author:Christina Perri

“The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.”

Should House White White House American Freedom

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“I have a house in Saratoga Springs.”

House Spring

Author:Bill Parcells

“The rugs that I picked out and the pillows with the little owls, sort of like whimsical throw pillows - I feel like you can never enough whimsical throw pillows in your house, in your life. My husband probably disagrees.”

Feels Littles Enough House Like You Husband My Husband Disagree Pillow Owl Whimsical

Author:Busy Philipps

“To me, the scariest movie ever made to this day is The Exorcist. It still scares the living hell out of me, and it’s because of the fantasy element. It’s the exorcism. It’s the Devil. It’s not a guy breaking into your house trying to torture you or cut your whatever off. Those kinds of movies don’t do it for me, and I don’t call them horror.”

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Author:Cassandra Peterson

“If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Body America House Events Members Function Portions Wipe

Author:Charles W. Pickering

“The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.”

People Body Government House Voice Principles Unique Direct Election Branches Exception Rooted Federal Government

Author:Charles W. Pickering

“I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.”

Knows Want Looks Stories House

Author:Danica Patrick

“Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in America and make the tax code fair and get rid of loopholes and special treatment. But absent tax reform, the president believes the right way to get our fiscal house in order is ask the wealthy to pay their fair share.”

People Way Believe America Order Asks House President Pay Share Special Taxes Fairs Rate Reform Code Treatment Wealthy Right Way Absent Loopholes Fair Share Tax Reform Special Treatment

Author:David Plouffe

“When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.”

House My Family Islands Juan

Author:Elizabeth Pena

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