Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amber Heard

I do not hope somebody breaks in. However, if they did, I pity them. I pity the fool that breaks into my house.

Chuck Palahniuk

What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

Chuck Palahniuk

You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?

Christopher Moore

Sweetheart, wake up; you've destroyed the house and I need you to suffer for it.

Anselm Kiefer

When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.

Annie Proulx

In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.

Angie Harmon

I'm super organized, but a horrible house cleaner.

Angela Kinsey

I love 'House' - I love 'House' so much.

Angela Lansbury

Louis B. Mayer and I got along like a house afire. He never chased me around his desk or tried anything with me. Of course, he never gave me any good parts, either.

Anne Sexton

I am in my own mind. I am locked in the wrong house.

Clara Zetkin

. .women are house as well as factory slaves and are forced to bear a double workload.

Daniel Dae Kim

There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.

Confucius

Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving

Confucius

I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.

Andrew Eldritch

I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.

Ambrose Bierce

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

Ambrose Bierce

Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.

Alice Munro

A story is not like a road to followit's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside it altered by being viewed from these windows.

Alice Hoffman

Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.

Alice Hamilton

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

Alice Cooper

From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.

Ann Voskamp

More important than a clean house is a close family.

Alben W. Barkley

I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

Albert Bushnell Hart

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

Annie Dillard

What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?

Chuck Zito

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

Amy Sedaris

I'm not very good with drink recipes. If I'm entertaining, I like to come up with a house drink for the evening, one thing I'll make for the whole evening of the whole month.

Anais Nin

Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

Anne Hathaway

I'm pretty good at remaining calm during an emergency. My house burned down when I was 12, which made me really pragmatic about what needed to be done. But I can be bad in that I compartmentalize a lot of emotions and push them away to deal with them at a later date.

We have nothing to lose. We're playing with house money.

The preference is not to sell the house as is.

We are in the process of launching a major virtual opera house tour.

Matthew Miller

We are in the midst of our 17th house right now.