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Quotes About House

It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies – it seeped in with every draught in the house; people brought it home on their shoes, they breathed it in off their newspapers. There was no way to control it.
~ Zadie Smith
I god, Ah can't see what uh woman uh yo' stability would want tuh be treasurin' all dat gum-grease from folks dat don't even own de house dey sleep in. 'Tain't no earthly use. They's jus' some puny humans playin' round de toes uh Time.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
It's nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we're in, so we can play on a big stage or a house show.
~ Phil Elverum
I was always anxious about whether I'd find a career I loved or be able to afford to buy a house.
~ Mary Nightingale
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze
~ Horace
Al cruzar de una pieza a otra, los pasos hallaban eco en toda la casa, como si un largo abandono hubiera sensibilizado su resonancia.
~ Horacio Quiroga
Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.
~ Hugh Laurie
He clambered out of the car, eager to show how quickly he could clamber out of cars, and followed at my shoulder as I strode over to the house.
~ Hugh Laurie
Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. Being House is like flying, too. He's free of the gravity of what people think.
~ Hugh Laurie
La importancia de la morada está en el morador.
~ Idries Shah
La valía de la Morada yace en el Morador.
~ Idries Shah
We build museums to house history, but it slips out through the cracks of sash and jamb
~ Ihab Hassan
What's the strongest insect in the world? A snail. It carries its house on its back!
~ Unknown
You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.
~ Colin Powell
I personally have my own idea of an efficient house. It would be totally concrete with a big drain in the middle, a large fiberglass tree for my kids to swing from and a hose hanging in the corner.
~ Unknown
Vampires couldn't scale the stone walls surrounding the house, for the stone was stamped with crosses in honor of St. Heath, who, apparently, had died upon one (although the story was rather muddied, and no one other than her husband's family, the de Lacys, had ever heard of St. Heath, so there was no way to verify its accuracy).
~ Colleen Gleason
against a backdrop of the continuing disappearance of objects both inside and outside the house. Tom eventually found his missing post digger. The only trouble was he found it perched twenty feet up a tree. It would have taken somebody of great strength to lift a seventy-pound post digger up into a tree.
~ Unknown
Following the 2000 coup, this august house did not agree to forgive the perpetrators but you decided that justice will take its course. You are confronted with a similar decision now. The military humbly requests that you display the same wisdom then to protect our land now.
~ Unknown
When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything.
~ Craig Ferguson
This house…she hated this house and all of the ghosts and pain that were trapped within its walls. Trapped, just as she was.
~ Unknown
In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year.
~ Cynthia Rylant
The survivors ran through the fields, escaping From themselves, knowing they wouldn't return For a hundred years. Before them were spread Those quicksands where a tree changes into nothing, Into an anti-tree, where no borderline Separates a shape from a shape, and where, Amid thunder, the golden house of is Collapses, and the word becoming ascends.
~ Czeslaw Milosz
What a dilapidated place!" they exclaimed. "How dreadfully lonely and isolated! Who do you think would buy a house like this? Fancy coming all this way to see it! The agent must have been crazy to send us here. I told him the sort of house we wanted.
~ Unknown
he had added ruefully that no money could be squeezed out of the young rapscallion for anything connected with the house. ('Rapscallion' was a new word to Mrs. Warmer but she had a dictionary, in which she delighted, so she looked it up and was somewhat surprised).
~ Unknown