Quotes About House

Amazing how money would simplify problems like ours. We wouldn't go wild at all, but write & travel & study all of our lives - which I hope we do anyway. And have a house apart, by the side of no road, with country about & a study & walls of bookcases.

with girls (house bristles with suspicion and frigidity; how much is paranoia transference? the damnable thing is that they can sense insecurity and meaness like animals smell blood)

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,  The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes,  Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,  Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,  Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,  Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,  And seeing that it was a soft October night,  Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.

Sometimes you men are like lizards, sunning on the stones of a crumbled house, thinking: 'what a nice basking-spot someone built for me.

It was an awkward moment. We were burning down our host's house, a situation which any guest seeks to avoid.

Often, when she claimed to be cleaning the house, he would come upon her fondling a spoon, attempting—by using psychic energy—to bend it with mind power alone. She insisted this could be done. Yet even if possible, he said, he didn't need or want their spoons bent.

At the house, the gathering broke up quickly. Sarai announced that she had a headache and needed to lie down. Without her to hold them together, the young nobles chose to go home. The gloss had been stripped from the afternoon.

Louisa beheld the grounds and house with the calm pleasure of one who has seen nothing, been nowhere, expects everything, and has little imagination.

Dear Heaven," said Mercurio, leaning out, "a lunatic is in the garden." "A lunatic is also in the house," Romulan called back at the same quiet carrying pitch. "Shall we compare delusions?

The magic time when the first fires of the evening were lighted was long past, the bread and spoons were on the table, and the dishes laid out in their proper places for the house demons.

It was apparent the mistress of the house was here in the person of the girl with the white hands. And it seemed she possessed authority, for one unruly youth had fled, the other two lay matronless, as if in abject fear, before her. When she spoke again, her young voice was like a thin knife.

Her rage filled the house, flat stale smoke. It got into everything, into our hair and our food, like the fallout they talked to us about in school that would one day drift down soft as snow.

beautiful house of "La Colle". With all the greatest tenderness, from your Catherine.

Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

street, but he had forgotten the number of the house. He remembered only that it was a multiple of seven. "So we drove up and down the street," Kamen recalled, "and finally found Number 3528, a multiple of seven, all right. Thinking about it now, I wonder sometimes whether he wasn't pulling everybody's leg a little bit. . . . He had this overwhelming temptation just to snow you.

The elevator doors opened, and I squeezed myself out before pulling out the Wardrober. It was heavy. "What do you have in there?" I said. "Your whole house?" "Almost," Simone laughed. "My favorite books.

There was a crooked child who lived in the crooked house and the child never knew anything other than crooked love…

The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.

The House Intelligence Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee are investigating everything having to do with Russia, and I expect we will find there is nothing there when it comes to the Trump campaign.

For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house.

You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live, but it was a good investment, because it was going to keep up with inflation or get ahead of inflation, and it was just - that was America.

I was never made to feel that fashion was frivolous and any old dress would do. Fashion was serious stuff in my house and in my life. In fact, most memories I have growing up involve beautiful dresses.

Howth is a wonderful part of the world. I love the Irish. Howth is extremely charming so anyone would be lucky to have a house there.