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Quotes About Residence

Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space.
~ Elizabeth Alexander
Pretoria household's residence was already bannered and flowered and gilded to excess when Lesa arrived home, but that wasn't limiting the ongoing application of gaud.
~ Elizabeth Bear
They drank a cheap Hungarian riesling that spelled "headache" after the third glass. They held hands. The lights were going out at the Garibaldi nursing home across the street, a five-story residence built in the sixties to prove how closely a building could resemble Formica.
~ Gary Shteyngart
Outside Buckingham Palace, the Royal Standard flies only when the reigning monarch is in residence. Sadly, there's no similar flag outside The Woods Jupiter, which Tiger opened in the summer of 2015, spending a reported $8 million to make an upscale sports bar-and-restaurant in his image.
~ Steve Rushin
A resident [of Chukotka] had stuck a flyer on a telegraph pole advertising his flat in exchange for a one-way ticket to Moscow. Unemployment runs at seventy per cent in the surrounding villages.
~ Sara Wheeler
New York is still where I live most of the time.
~ Gerry Mulligan
I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there.
~ James Iha
Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday.
~ Bob Seger
Go home, old woman, I'm tired and you're annoying me.
~ Marian Keyes
If I am not the legal resident of the apartment you cannot evict me. You cannot evict Mrs. Tuttle, who is the legal resident of the apartment, because she is not living here. Unless you accept my check you are not going to receive any rent for the apartment at all because you cannot rent it to anyone else while I am living here because you cannot evict me so they could move in. Mrs. Tuttle will not pay the rent because she is not living here. Sincerely, Marian Griswold
~ Shirley Jackson
The house. It watches every move you make.
~ Shirley Jackson
At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one's memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse.
~ Roman Payne
Is God really with us? The answer to the question is "yes." God has come to take up residence with us as one of us. How has that fact been accomplished? By giving him a human mother but no human father.
~ John N. Oswalt
I will stay living in Staffordshire. Other people would be moving offshore. I am reasonably happy to help support the British economy. I have done very well out of Britain.
~ John Caudwell
I want to build a house in Indian Harbour, that's all.
~ Anne Murray
Unlike the Tory millionaires, I live in the heart of the proud working-class community of the Bogside in Derry.
~ Martin McGuinness
Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.
~ Said Nursi
I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
~ J. B. Pritzker
I left the house and headed for the Lauriergracht, where Van Hoogstraten had taken up residence since leaving Vienna and his post as court painter specializing in optical deceits. He currently made peepshow boxes constructed of wood, with one missing side that allowed light to enter as if through a shuttered window, and two small holes for viewing the painted panels of scenes inside. I had never seen one of these peepshows personally, and hoped he would have at least one to show me.
~ Sarah Emily Miano
Adam and Eve used to walk with Me in the garden, before their expulsion from Eden. I want you to walk with Me in the garden of your heart, where I have taken up permanent residence.
~ Sarah Young
I SPEAK TO YOU from the depths of eternity. Before the world was formed, I AM! You hear Me in the depths of your being, where I have taken up residence. I am Christ in you, the hope of Glory. I, your Lord and Savior, am alive within you. Learn to tune in to My living Presence by seeking Me in silence.
~ Sarah Young
If you're away from your house for a month, by the time you come back there's someone else living in it.
~ Bill Burr
It was reported today that Michelle Obama wants her mother to move into the White House with them. Yes. This is expected to be the first time Barack uses his veto power.
~ Conan O'Brien