Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Goodman Ace

Familiarity breeds attempt. Time wounds all heels. I went down on the Lower East Side today and saw all those Old Testament houses. We're all cremated equal. We're insufferable friends. I've been working my head to the bone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.

Gregory Maguire

The storm dropped a house on her head.

Guy Finley

If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.

George Herbert

When my house burnes, it's not good playing at Chesse.

George Herbert

The back-doore robs the house.

George Herbert

Woe to the house where there is no chiding.

If I knew, I would have left it at the house and had someone pick it up.

If I knew a house was burglarized, why would I want to burglarize it? Everything I want might be gone.

Marcus Trufant

I couldn't even imagine living in a house like that. It had to be crazy.

I don't think there was one person in the house who wasn't moved by that.

Cassie Scerbo

I clean out my house weekly. I just keep a lot of silly little things that are meaningful to me.

Taylor Momsen

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

Humphrey Bogart

On the House Un-American Activities Committee: They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.

Tori Amos

I like cosy, intimate houses.

Rick Riordan

You're a stalker with hooves." "I am not! I followed her to the Big House and hid in a bush and watched the whole thing.