Quotes About House

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

There are just some 4-letter-words that I will not tolerate: dust, wash, cook, iron...

His voice rose. "It reminds me of a room in the Château of Blois where the caretaker who was shewing me over said: 'This is where Mary Stuart used to say her prayers; I use it to keep my brooms in.' Naturally I wish to know nothing more of this house that has let itself be dishonoured

Really, I find all that sort of thing too deadly. Listen, it's not always as boring as this at my parties. I hope that you will soon come and dine again as a compensation, with no pedigrees next time," she murmured, incapable both of appreciating the kind of charm which I could find in her house and of having sufficient humility to be content to appeal to me only as a herbarium, filled with plants of another day.

They knew the address. They went to the house. They did not see its mistress. But at dinner that evening she would say: "I hear they've

The same wind that blows down your house shakes berries from the bushes.

of exchange, one that would be impervious to the gamesmanship of gifted individuals. By functioning as an auction house and averaging the bids to arrive at a final price

At which point exactly does the past give way to the present, and does time ever intersect? Through years of occupations, this house on Rákóczi út was forced to give way to new inhabitants. Just by being here, standing here in from of this house, we are bringing them all back, through memory.

The whole house seemed to be permeated by the scent of the herb garden.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

A round house keeps snakes away because it makes no shadows where snakes can hide," Tjikuu says. "Herero who build square houses like white people are foolish. Round houses bring good luck. They're like nature.

Among the pictures in our "Children's House" in Rome we have hung a copy of Raphael's "Madonna della Seggiola", and this picture we have chosen as the emblem of the "Children's Houses". For

So this was her kingdom: an octagonal house, a roomful of books, and a bear.

She makes her little house to shine, she thought.

"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;not in silence, but restraint."Nor was he insincere in saying, "Make my house your inn."Inns are not residences.

The sweet air coming into your house on afine day, from water etchedwith waves as formal as the scales on a fish.

Of course, I rationalize the fear. I realize it's not real, that my house isn't burning down, that the deer aren't going to kill me.

I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.

All the Hollywood bullshit and accolades and money really doesn't matter. It just gives you a slightly nicer house and slightly nicer food and slightly shinier hair.

I cant stand those food cult people who bring their own food into the house. All those little thermoses and paper bags-it makes the other guests uncomfortable.

The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

I recently went to the hardware store and I bought some used paint... it was in a shape of a house. I also bought some batteries, but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again.

My car broke down outside Pizza Hut last night. So I ordered a pizza to be delivered to my house and got a lift from the driver.