“I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: 'If I sit down and do this, everything will come out okay.'” IfsKnowsWantFeelsWritingI CanStoriesHouseFeltPayWalkingCreatingOkayDown AndDesertLeapChimneysLeap Of Faith Author:Stephen King
“It’s okay to show up at a guy’s house with a dozen roses and declare your undying affection. It’s okay to have too much to drink and call your ex twenty times and then to be mortally embarrassed when you realize your number must have shown up on his caller I.D. It’s okay, because making a fool of yourself for love is ultimately about you, how much you have to give and the distance you will travel to keep your heart wide open when everything around you makes you feel like slamming it shut and soldering it closed.” GivingFeelsHeartShowsGuyHouseRealizingLove IsNumbersToo MuchFoolDrinkOkayTwentiesDistanceRoseAffectionWideDozenEmbarrassedExesYour ExMaking A Fool Of Yourself Author:Veronica Chambers
“We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.'” KnowsLittlesSaidHouseToo MuchHappenedOkayWeekendGuests Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“If you're raised in a house where it's okay for one group to eat and another to cook, or for one group to get more education money than the other or to be more free than the other, or where one parent gives in to the will of the other or may be verbally or even physically abused by the other. This gives you an idea of human worth.” IfsGivingHumansMayIdeasHouseParentGroupsOkayRaisedCooks Author:Gloria Steinem
“Moving [to the White House], whatever stresses would be on my husband and me, we could handle; we are grown-ups. But it wouldn't be until the day that my kids came home and said to me, "I like it here," that I'd feel like I could breathe and know that we're all going to be okay here.” KnowsFeelsSaidHomeWould BeKidsMovingHouseWhiteHusbandOkayStressBreatheHandleMy HusbandWhite House Author:Michelle Obama
“I thought the other ones were so obviously - what are we going to do if she burns down the house? The DEA, which I think was maybe the best one because she's wearing the jacket when she goes through the mirror and I think that was kind of amazing because you really weren't expecting that. There's something almost slapstick about this in a way that worried me. It was a little pratfalley with the golf club and the - but I think it probably cut together okay.” IfsThinkingWayKindLittlesTogetherHouseCuttingOkayMirrorsGolfClubsWorriedBeing The BestExpectingJacketsGolf ClubsSlapstick Author:Mary-Louise Parker
“In fact, in the last job I had before coming to the White House - I remember this clearly - I was on maternity leave with Sasha, still trying to figure out what to do with my life, and I got a call for an interview for this position, a senior position at the hospitals. And I thought, okay, here we go. So I had to scramble to look for babysitting, and couldn't find one.” TryingLooksStillsFactsJobsLastsRememberHouseWhiteFiguresPositionOkayInterviewsHospitalsWhite HouseSeniorMaternityBabysittingMaternity Leave Author:Michelle Obama
“The problems of 2008 were never cured. The Federal Reserve's solution to the crisis was to lend the economy enough money to borrow its way out of debt. It thought that if it could subsidize banks lending homeowners enough money to buy houses from people who are defaulting, then the bank balance sheets would end up okay.” PeopleIfsWayEndsEnoughProblemHouseEconomyBalanceSolutionsOkayCrisisDebtReservesSheetsLendingFederal ReserveBalance SheetsHomeowners Author:Michael Hudson
“Embraced by the Light. It's about a woman who passed away during surgery, and she went to heaven, had her experience, and then came back. My dad [Robert Kardashian] would try to get me to read it, and I wouldn't. Then when he passed away, I was cleaning out my room in his house, and I found it. I read it, and it helped me. I felt like my dad was okay.” TryingLightFoundHouseHeavenFeltRoomsDadOkayMy DadSurgeryCleaningPassed Away Author:Kim Kardashian
“If we move away from either/or thinking, and if we think, okay, every day of my life that I walk out of my house I am a combination of race, gender, class, sexual preference and religion or what have you, what gets foregrounded?” IfsThinkingMovingHouseWalksRaceClassOkayGenderCombinationPreferenceEither Or Author:Bell Hooks
“Hundreds upon hundreds of news outlets - okay, thousands - are interested in following the happenings at the White House. Yet the number of news sources at the White House - people who know what's happening - is finite. Dozens maybe. With that imbalance hanging over the enterprise, it's hard for a group of reporters competing against one another to secure the upper hand.” PeopleKnowsHardHandsHouseWhiteNumbersGroupsSourceNewsHappeningsOkayFollowingSecureEnterpriseWhite HouseDozenReportersCompetingFiniteOutletsImbalanceUpper Hand Author:Erik Wemple
“I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive. She hasn't done a single thing as congressman or Speaker of the House that has turned me on, but I find her quite okay.” DoneHouseRepublicanOkayAttractiveSpeakers Author:Christopher Buckley
“Having my parents be divorced, you're forced to realize, "Sooner or later I'm going to be on my own and have to figure it out." I have so many brothers that are younger than me, so I have to have that mindset of, "Okay, what am I going to do now?" I have to show them what growing up is - it's not me living at dad's house until I'm 25.” HouseParentRealizingGrowing UpBrotherOkayMindsetDivorced Author:Christian Madsen
“My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, Okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.” IfsI CanMotherHouseGoalRealizingFocusPlayerKeysOkayEmpires Author:Nicki Minaj
“The front door flew open, and Mary shot out of the house, jumping off the porch, not even bothering with the steps to the ground. She ran over the frost-laden grass in her bare feet and threw herself at him, grabbing on to his neck with both arms. She held him so tightly his spine cracked. She was sobbing. Bawling. Crying so hard her whole body was shaking. He didn't ask any questions, just wrapped himself around her. I'm not okay," she said hoarsely between breaths. "Rhage...I'm not okay.” SaidHardWholeBodyAsksHouseStepsDoorsFeetFrontsCryArmsShotsOkayBreathsBotherGrassRanNecksMaryJumpingShakingFlewSpineCrackedFrostPorchFront DoorsGrabbingSobbingJumping OffNot OkayBare FeetRhage Book:The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide Source: The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide
“The two circled around the back of the house, making sure that nobody saw them. Once inside, they found Patrick right where they had left him, sitting in front of Mark's computer. The only difference was that he was surrounded by bags of Doritos and cans of Mountain Dew. He looked up at them with wild eyes. You okay?" Courtney asked. I'm fantastic!" Patrick exclaimed. "This sugary drink is incredible!" Swell," Courtney remarked sarcastically. "He's wired on Dew.” TwoEyeFoundHouseLeftDifferencesSawsFrontsDrinkMountainComputerSittingOkayMarkIncrediblesFantasticBagsDewCourtneyDoritosMountain DewWild Eyes Author:D. J. MacHale
“They've drunk everything in the house, including a pitcher of African violet plant food I'd just mixed up and was stupid enough to leave on the counter." Tremaine punched Eddie in the shoulder. "I told you it tasted weird." Eddie shrugged. "Tasted okay to me.” EnoughHouseStupidOkayPlantIncludingShouldersDrunkVioletPitcher Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“Okay, now you're starting to scare me," Wes says. "No, scary is the way people can alter their voices on cue. Like your imitation of that creepy guy who lives at your house." "You mean my dad?" he laughs.” PeopleWayMeanGuyHouseVoiceLaughingDadOkayMy DadStartingScaryScareImitationCreepy Author:Laurie Faria Stolarz