Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Bush

You all look at it as a little house. It was a terrific house to live in. We loved it here.

We're a long way from being down and out. We've lost more than we would have liked. But as unhappy as I have been at times, we're a long way from sitting at the house come tournament time.

Jeff Flake

We in the House have plenty of time between now and Thanksgiving to do it.

Nancy Pelosi

We intend to do it on the first day we take over the House of Representatives.

George Herbert

God oft hath a great share in a little house.

Jean Anouilh

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Jay Inslee

Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.

Jay Leno

Martha Stewart is now under house arrest. So she'll go to her $40 million 153-acre estate. So she's going from the big house to an even bigger house.

Bryan Cranston

I'm pretty handy! I do a lot of things around the house, and I actually enjoy it.

James Herriot

They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.

James Dyson

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

Janet Evanovich

Wondering where Ranger was now, when I needed him. Why wasn’t he here, insisting on locking me up in a safe house? Now that my hamster’s cage was clean, I’d be happy to oblige.

Janet Evanovich

Do you have someone watching her house?” (Stephanie) “That kind of surveillance only happens in the movies. We’re so underbudgeted we’re one step away from holding bake sales to pay for toilet paper. (Morelli)

Janet Evanovich

If I let her in I'm doomed. It's like inviting a vampire into your house. Once you've invite them in, that's it, you're good as dead!

Francois Rabelais

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

Chris Rock

You know you're rich when you have to drive for a half hour to get to your house once you're on your property.

Chris Matthews

You can be Mitt Romney with three marriages and a disastrous speakership, kicked out of the speakership, being reprimanded by the House of Representatives and fined and all that stuff, it doesn`t matter if you sing the right tune with the right tone these days.

Chris Hemsworth

I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.

Gilbert Gottfried

If the police ever try to pick me up, Michael Jackson told me I can hide out at his house.

Hayden Panettiere

I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible.

Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.

Henry David Thoreau

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

Henry David Thoreau

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

Henry David Thoreau

At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.

Henry David Thoreau

I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.

Henry David Thoreau

When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.

H. L. Mencken

For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.

Jerry Hall

I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

Jeremy Bentham

How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.

Jennifer Egan

Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.

Jean de La Fontaine

The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?

Groucho Marx

Don’t ever underestimate the importance of money. I know it’s often been said that money won’t make you happy and this is undeniably true, but everything else being equal, it’s a lovely thing to have around the house.