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“Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees,-- if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself: "I am lonely, lonely. I was born to be lonely, I am best so!" If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?”

“As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer. Likewise, the bicycle is alive and well. It was invented in a world without automobiles, and for speed and range it was quickly surpassed by motorcycles and all kinds of powered scooters. But there is nothing quaint about bicycles. They outsell cars.”

“This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day by day, into the microcosmic single festive household, each with its own rituals and obsessions, rules and dreams. You didn't feel you could call people. They didn't feel they could phone you. How does one cry for help from these seasonal prisons?”

People World Feels Years Doe Helping Dream Cry Months Prison Phones Obsession Ritual New Year Household Closing Festive

Author:Zadie Smith

“The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.”

People Firsts School Jobs Responsibility Teach Teacher Teaching Students Masters Classroom Household Closest

Author:H. Rap Brown

“We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.”

“In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.”

Said Prayer Speech Sacred Household Closest

Author:Mary Karr

“What’s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome your corpse, trap clicks and you’re in heaven, bored rigid”

Heaven Nations Walks Attention Television Welcome Bored Fuel Emptiness Household Schemes Traps Worms Ache Corpses Clicks Transient

Author:Steve Aylett

“The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.”

Men Should Values Activity Men And Women Capacity Cat Balanced Household Relaxation Tense

Book:Autobiography: with letters

Source: Autobiography: with letters

“Friends come and go, clothing is packed and unpacked, households are continually purged of unnecessary items, and as a result, not much sticks. it's hard at times but it makes a kid strongs in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good and bad to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.”

People Way Hard Kids Left Grows Results Behinds Teach Growing Up Offers Sticks Clothings Household Unnecessary Items Left Behind Good And Bad Comes And Goes Friends Come And Go

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him one little pet. He is my household's guardian soul; He judges, he presides, inspires All matters in his royal realm; Might he be fairy? or a god? When my eyes, to this cat I love Drawn as by a magnet's force, Turn tamely back upon that appeal, And when I look within myself, I notice with astonishment The fire of his opal eyes, Clear beacons glowing, living jewels, Taking my measure, steadily.”

Source: The Flowers of Evil

“Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.”

Ifs Would Be Growing Up Growing Week Sky Dad Rain My Dad Be Good Mood Tone Farmers Household Agriculture Crops Georgia Luke Forecasts Bryan Good Week

Author:Luke Bryan

“For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates.”

Born Household Kate Tamed Taming Taming Of The Shrew Shrews

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

“The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.”

Courses Trouble Suicide Household Nails Traveled Skulls Coffins

Book:Moonchild: A Prologue

Source: Moonchild: A Prologue

“When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her children. A woman's second priority is the household. She wants to buy utensils, build a stronger roof, or find a bed for herself and her family. A man has an entirely different set of priorities. When a destitute father earns extra income, he focuses more attention on himself. Thus money entering a household through a woman brings more benefits to the family as a whole.”

Men Want Children Different Whole Dream Mother Father Attention Bed Benefits Stronger Priorities Income Extras Household Roof Earning Entering Destitute Utensils

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond household chores and family life. Their lives are fragmented... the cry not so much for a 'a room of one's own' as time of one's own. Conflict become acute, whatever it may be about, when there is no margin left on any day in which to try at least to resolve it.”

Want Trying May Left Space Rooms Clear Cry Conflict Harder Resolve Household Family Life Margins Chores Fragmented Household Chores

Book:A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry

Source: A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry

“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.”

Happens Grief Band Aids Curious Exception Layers Household Bereavement Ripped Band Aid

Book:My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.”

Men Whole Individual Wife Stupid Theory Husband Affair Clever Manage Household Eugenics Sweeping Pseudo Scientific Theory Wholesale Money Power

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I disobeyed Ra's wishes, and so he ordered my onw father, Shu-" "Hang on," I said. "Shoe?" "S-h-u," she said. "The god of the wind." "On." I wished these gods had names that wearn't common household objects. "Go on, please.”

Said Father Names Wish Common Objects Wind Goes On Please Shoes Household

Author:Rick Riordan

“In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.”

Mother Difficult Voice Clear Calm Fishes Household Involving Improbable

Book:The Silver Gryphon

Source: The Silver Gryphon

“What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs as you stroke, or rub his chin, or scratch his head.”

“For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their day-to-day lives, this decision affirms the full legal protections and safeguards I believe everyone deserves.”

Believe I Believe Decision Gay Deserve Protection Household Day To Day Civil Liberties Day Life Day To Day Life Californians

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Housekeeping ain't no joke.”

Work Jokes Household Cleaning Housekeeping

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“Maybe it's just not the right time for us to be married. I don't want to be a bounty hunter for the rest of my life, but I certainly don't want to be a housewife right now. And I really don't want to be married to someone who gives me ultimatums. And maybe Joe needs to examine what he wants from a wife. He was raised in a traditional Italian household with a stay-at-home mother and domineering father. If he wants a wife who will fit into that mold, I'm not for him. I might be a stay-at-home mother someday, but I'll always be trying to fly off the garage roof. That's just who I am.”

“Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into their adulthood. It makes you realize how quickly a situation can shift, how danger really is everywhere. But crises when the occur, do not catch you off guard; you have never believed you lived under a shelter of some essential benevolence. And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement.”

“I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and the fragments swept away, has asked what has become of her husband and her children.”

Children Whole Hours Half Known Cases Husband Rage Household Fragments Swept Away

Book:Flatland

Source: Flatland

“I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.”

Reason Feelings Saws Cutting Grew Grew Up Doctors Chains Household Limbs

Book:Sing You Home: A Novel

Source: Sing You Home: A Novel

“We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”

Source: Essays, lectures and orations

“It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply another stage in the historical rise of individualism. As the lovely word "household" suggests, the couple and the family would be the last bastion of primitive communism in liberal society. The sexual revolution was to destroy these intermediary communities, the last to separate the individual from the market. The destruction continues to this day.”

“As if being a former vampire drone in a werewolf household were not shocking enough, the maid then opened her mouth and proved that she was also, quite reprehensibly, French.”

Ifs Enough Mouths Vampire Former Household Shocking Werewolf Maids Drones

Author:Gail Carriger

“Grover started to sniffle and I figured if I didn't cheer him up he'd either start bawling or chewing up my mattress. He tends to eat household objects whenever he gets upset.”

Ifs Objects Upset Cheer Household Chewing Mattresses Grover Grover Underwood

Book:The Titan's curse

Source: The Titan's curse

“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.”

Should Writing Littles Persons Long Bits Can Do Little Bit Clothes Dresses Committed Evening Ashamed Pet Bad Things Household Embarrassed Vocabulary Dressings Dressing Up Long Words Cuteness

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one’s thoughts be diverted by anything- by meals, by a fly that settles on one’s cheek, by household duties, or by a sudden itch somewhere. But there are always flies and itches. That’s why life is difficult to live.”

Thinking Mean Persons Facts Life Is Difficult Minutes Worst Duty Capable Settling Meals Cheeks Household Calamity Life Is Difficult

Book:The Plague

Source: The Plague

“for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.”

Soul Fire Flames Household Deities

Book:The Home and the World

Source: The Home and the World

“"Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information." "I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand." "Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?" "I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person."”

“Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away.”

“Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.”

Men World Lying Millions Forgotten Every Man Dread Household Overlooked Deep Within

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments.”

Ifs Should Would Be Law Mother Asks Answers Watches Daughter Performances Function Traditional Opposition Comment Household In-laws Mother In Law Daughter In Law

Book:A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988

Source: A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988

“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.”

Ifs Ends Home Bigs Happens Mother Father House Felt Rooms Grief Week Cry Band Rounds Aids Curious Clock Exception Coming Home Layers Household Ripped Headphones Band Aid

Book:My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

“Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.”

Should Age Wealth Source Ten Income Divides Household Inheritance Annuals Net Worth Inherited Wealth

Book:The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy

Source: The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy

“...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him..." - C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory”

Men Looks Two Book Together Reading Interest Half Talking Laughing Sun Glory Weight Beer Meals Household Pints Two Friends Laughing Together

Author:C. S. Lewis

“It turns out that Molly wasn't her mother's daughter in that respect. Charity was like the MacGuyver of the kitchen. She could whip up a five-course meal for twelve from an egg, two spaghetti noodles, some household chemicals, and a stick of chewing gum. Molly ... Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how.”

Knows Two Mother Turns Courses Know How Five Daughter Sticks Charity Meals Kitchen Eggs Chemicals Twelve Household Burned Whips Gum Chewing Spaghetti Noodles Chewing Gum Boiled Eggs

Author:Jim Butcher

“I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.”

Book Ends Father Grew Grew Up Household Boast

Author:John le Carre

“Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.”

Ifs Wells Looks Moving Produce Affection Sunshine Household Furniture Grotesque Shabby

Book:The Four Loves

Source: The Four Loves

“Sophronia was minding her own business and running late to luncheon, as was her custom. She'd let to learn the advantage of punctuality. As she told Sister Mattie the third time she was late to household potions and poisons, nothing interesting happened until after an event commenced.”

Running Interesting Happened Events Late Advantage Thirds Poison Customs Household Own Business Punctuality Third Time Running Late

Author:Gail Carriger

“Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life she often wondered if she was mad. Now she knows that she is not mad but special. There, she was only a parlor maid, who would likely have lost her position once her looks had faded. Now she is a valued member of our household, a gifted girl with much to contribute.”

Ifs Knows Looks Said Girl Lost Special Position Members Sight Mad Household Gifted Maids Sophie Faded Parlor Old Life

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“Sophie," he said, and when she gave him a stern look, he took a hasty swig of the posset. “Miss Collins. I have not yet had a chance to properly apologize to you, so let me take it now. Please forgive me for the trick I played on you with the scones. I did not mean to show you disrespect. I hope you do not imagine I think any less of you for your position in the household, for you are one of the finest and bravest ladies I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

“I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.”

Wells Devices Household Mobile Appliances

Author:Vinton Cerf

“A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.”

Time Members Guests Household Old Time

Author:George F. Kennan

“Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.”

“To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.”

Ifs Men Freedom Democracy Treats Pet Household Cattle

Author:Mencius

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