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Quotes About House

There's nothing more haunted than a house. Doesn't matter where, how grand, how small, made of brick, straw, stone, or gingerbread, whether perfectly cared for or blown to bits. Beings gather there. Every house is a planet, exerting gravitational pull. Every house is in a dark wood, every house has a wicked witch in it, doesn't matter if she looks like a fairy godmother...
~ Jane Smiley
SMITH TREASURE," she read softly. "It was the kids, right? That's what they were trying to say. In the house. Everywhere. The SMITH TREASURE was the kids.
~ Janet S. Anderson
My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.
~ Janis Joplin
A woman was murdered. Annie Barrett. She was an artist, a painter, and she used your house as her studio.
~ Jason Rekulak
He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
THIS IS THE HOUSE OF TARZAN, THE KILLER OF BEASTS AND MANY BLACK MEN. DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
The light of the October afternoon lay on an old high-roofed house which enclosed in its long expanse of brick and yellowish stone the breadth of a grassy court filled with the shadow and sound of limes.
~ Edith Wharton
The whole area, manor house, Clink, all eighteen brothels and the handsome profits therefrom, belonged to and was ruled by the bishop.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
Lad was not even consoled by the knowledge that he was guarding the slumbrous house. He was not guarding it. He had not the very remotest idea what it meant to be a watchdog. In all his five months he had never learned that there is unfriendliness in the world; or that there is anything to guard a house against.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
Imagínate que a ella le vino su primer período en mi casa. A ese nivel de intimidad, puh galla.
~ Alberto Fuguet
Everything makes love with silence. They promised me a silence like fire, a house of silence. Suddenly the temple is a circus the light a drum.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Todo hace el amor con el silencio. Me habían prometido un silencio como un fuego, una casa de silencio. De pronto el templo es un circo y la luz un tambor.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
The crime scene was a small burned out house, blackened support beams sticking up like rotten teeth from the piles of char and ash on the ground. The occasional curl of half-burned insulation lay like thin snakes, poisonous and waiting.
~ Alex Hughes
Having uttered that piercing cry of grief, Jesus left the temple, never, so far as we know, to return. His last words to the people of Jerusalem were: "Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord.
~ Alexander Balmain Bruce
But you love that house.' 'I do, yes, but it holds so many memories of Monty.' 'Isn't that good?' I reason. 'In many ways, yes, it can be of great comfort . . .' She pauses, then gestures around her. 'But life isn't a museum, Nell. I don't want to live in the past.
~ Alexandra Potter
The three branches of government are the Presidency, the House, and the Senate.
~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I would have thought it was the sort of house a vampire lived in if I hadn't been aware that vampire stories were superstitious legends designed to subjugate the enslaved rural classes into unquestioning obedience of feudal autocracy.
~ Alexei Sayle
Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.
~ Elizabeth Edwards
I love 'House of Cards.' I would watch Kevin Spacey read the phone book.
~ Alexandra Daddario
I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.
~ Skitch Henderson
I've never heard Donald Trump say that he watches 'House of Cards,' but I'd be really shocked if he didn't because he appears to be copying Frank more than we're copying the current administration.
~ Michael Kelly
Elvis used to have parties at his house - and I've told this story a million times - but they weren't really parties, because there was no chips or dip. Just Elvis and his boys watching TV, and him making funny comments, and everybody laughing at them. Is that a party? Not really. But that's Hollywood.
~ Teri Garr
There's something really simple and idyllic about living in a house very close to the water.
~ Andrea Riseborough
When I go on trips, I like to have everything in one place. Someone to be in charge of the food, someone to keep things organized, and someone to attend to us. I need the house to be awesome, by the water, with all the amenities I need.
~ Karol G