Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary McCarthy

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process

Mark Twain

[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.

Marian Keyes

I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.

Nicholas Sparks

Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.

Muhammad Ali

When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock

Mark Hoppus

Every single day that you walk outside your house is something new and different and exciting.

Nathan Lane

I have my aluminum siding business, and that's going like a house afire.

R. C. Sproul

The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.

Paul Prudhomme

I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Daniel J. Boorstin

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

Daniel Kahneman

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

D. A. Carson

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

D. H. Lawrence

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

D. H. Lawrence

Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

Conor Oberst

[Popular music]is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.

Conor Oberst

Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden you have a very potent way of delivering your message.

Daniel Defoe

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.