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Quotes About House

But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.
~ Lu Xun
I believe that white frame house is worthy of more than a nod of nostalgia, because the values President Clinton learned there and in Hope formed the core of his political philosophy.
~ Mack McLarty
I had a survey done on my house. 8 out of 10 people said they really rather liked it
~ Jimmy Carr
We've got stained glass windows in our house; it's those damned pigeons.
~ Chic Murray
In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often, I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Germany. She said 'cut it out'
~ Steven Wright
I was at Michael Jackson's house, and this kid runs out, 'Wait, save me!'
~ Chris Rock
So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'
~ Tommy Cooper
As long as you're a tax deduction, you'll always be safe in my house.
~ George Lopez
I moved into an all-electric house. I forgot and left the porch light on all day. When I got home the front door wouldn't open.
~ Steven Wright
I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family. That's an important part of building morale in the military.
~ George W. Bush
I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
~ Steven Wright
Sometimes it's nice to have a man around the house. But a dog will clean the dishes.
~ Lois Greiman, Unmanned
... the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of you for a while?" "Mmm, " I said. "I give up. What's the use of having a man in the house?
~ Patricia Briggs, Blood Bound
A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.
~ George Meredith
Fang can't stand to see trash & garbage lying around the house. He can't stand the competition.
~ Phyllis Diller
I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.
~ Sophie Ellis Bextor
It was clear that the house was run on a certain system, of either great pomposity or great denial - it was too early for her to make up her mind about which one it was.
~ Noorilhuda, The Governess
The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.
~ Jan Schakowsky
I will never understand a desire for a reckoning so strong that you burn down your own house to get it,
~ Jana Deleon
It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's depth of newness. Still, the permeability seems to travel both ways: a changed self will find new meanings in a good poem, but a good poem also changes the shape of the self.
~ Jane Hirshfield
The house might, in fact, have passed for the world's largest rosebush if here and there a pane of glass had not gleamed and a few dark shingles showed beneath the rose leaves. Two chimneys and a row of gables stuck timid snouts out along the roof line.
~ Jane Louise Curry
One was an ancient tortoiseshell cat with arthritis, who creaked around the house--but when Aunt Sibby flickered her fingers and crooned, Miminy, miminy, tall-as-a-chi-mi-ny, danced on his hind legs like a kitten.
~ Jane Louise Curry
Harley suppressed a sigh, acknowledging that was probably true. And she wouldn't want the agency to send just anyone here to the ranch. You couldn't put just anyone in a house with two pre-teens. The agency would have to do thorough criminal background
~ Jane Porter