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Quotes About House

A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods.
~ Dennis Miller
The journey through the house becomes a journey through time; with its small rooms and hidden corridors, its whispered asides and sudden revelations, it resembles a pilgrimage through life itself.
~ Dennis Severs
Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.
~ Steve Ballmer
The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.
~ Jan Schakowsky
As we followed him down a hall to a back bedroom, he told us that he owned the house. "Unfortunately, it's not haunted," he said.
~ Jeffrey Ford
As dawn broke over the mountains on the horizon, Iduna rode into the sleepy village. She spotted the sign for Tomally's Baked Goods almost immediately. It was just as her friend had described in her letters. The bakery was attached to a modest house that was clean and bright, with a window box filled with golden crocus. They were Anna's favorite flower. It had to be a sign.
~ Jen Calonita
The boys organized air-soft gun wars, so eight sweaty, stinky boys are running through my house wielding semiautomatic pellet guns dressed in sweatshirts though it was 97 degrees yesterday. My rule on this boy business: "Don't cry if you get pinged, and if one stray pellet hits me, I will run over your guns with my car." This is life with sons, people.
~ Jen Hatmaker
My Body is a wide house A commune Of bickering women, hearing their own breathing denying each other. (House of Changes)
~ Jeni Couzyn
Wait a minute. You expect me to stay overnight in a house with four single men? Sean grinned. We're perfect gentlemen, Kim. Everyone knows that. Don't let us worry you. I'm not worried about my reputation, I'm worried about the state of the bathrooms.
~ Jennifer Ashley
It is a game, my love." He held her gaze. "It is the most serious game I've ever engaged in. And I intend to win it. I will have you back, Isabella—in my life, in my house, and in my bed.
~ Jennifer Ashley
Maybe it's a door to N-Narnia," Dimitri suggested. Ben grunted. "Don't even say that in a house like this. You never know what kind of magic it can produce." "They have t-talking animals there," Dimitri said. "We'd f-fit right in.
~ Jennifer Ashley
For God's sake!" Hart sprang to his feet. Everyone at the table stopped and stared at him, including Ian. "Do I have to be made a mockery of in my own house?" Mac leaned back in his chair, his hands behind his head. "Would you prefer we made a mockery of you in the street? In Hyde Park, maybe? In the middle of Pall Mall? The card room in your club?" "Mac, shut it!
~ Jennifer Ashley
Maybe I could come over to your house again afterward and check on you?" I raised my eyebrows to hint hint what I meant by checking on him . With any luck his father would be as uninvolved and dismissive as he'd been tonight.Nick needed more yoga in his bedroom, and possibly a physical.
~ Jennifer Echols
Tongue-in-cheek nostalgia is merely the portal, the candy house, if you will, through which we hope to lure in a new generation and bewitch them.
~ Jennifer Egan
The sound of the wind against the sides of the house is exactly like the sound of wolf fur against cardboard.
~ Jennifer Egan
Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before someone made them pay for what they thought they were getting for free.
~ Jennifer Egan
Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before someone made them pay for what they thought they were getting for free. Why could nobody see this?
~ Jennifer Egan
My little sister snuck out of the house carrying a circular-saw blade and a can of Mace. I couldn't exactly let her come alone.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Technisch gezien...' Alisa Ortega klonk alsof ze net een arsenicumpil had geslikt, 'is dit háár huis.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
It was a house of shadows, where the sunshine was filtered down to a guttering night-light strength between the laths of the window-shutters. (89)
~ Émile Zola
In that manner Hareton, who should now be the first gentleman in the neighbourhood, was reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father's inveterate enemy; and lives in his own house as a servant, deprived of the advantage of wages: quite unable to right himself, because of his friendlessness, and his ignorance that he has been wronged.
~ Emily Bronte
They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.
~ Emily Dickinson
A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care — For Captain was the Butterfly For Helmsman was the Bee And an entire universe For the delighted crew.
~ Emily Dickinson
I dwell in Possibility— A fairer House than Prose— More numerous of Windows— Superior—for Doors— Of Chambers as the Cedars— Impregnable of Eye— And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky— Of Visitors—the fairest— For Occupation—This— The spreading wide of narrow Hands To gather Paradise—
~ Emily Dickinson