Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurie Halse Anderson

It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.

Theresa May

I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.

Levon Helm

With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.

Lewis Black

My favorite health club is the International House of Pancakes

Lewis Carroll

It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.

Joy Harjo

My house is the red earth . . . .

Karl Lagerfeld

No, I have someone who comes to the house and washes it, puts in the dry shampoo, and takes care if it because I have no time.

Julius Wellhausen

The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.

Kathryn Stockett

Why don't we just build you an house outside Hilly?

Julian Lennon

I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don't like too much security. There's no freedom. I'm a person, not some precious diamond that needs guarding every second.

Maria Semple

What's this?" She pulled out a card and held it away from her face. "I can't read what it says." I took it from her and read it aloud. 1. Beeber Bifocal 2. Twenty Mile House 3. Bee 4. Your escape Fourteen miracles to go.

Maria Semple

One of the main reasons I don't like leaving the house is because I might find myself face to face with a Canadian.

Otto Hermann Kahn

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

P. C. Cast

I'm here because she's here, and she belongs to me. ~Rephaim

P. C. Cast

He's not the brightest crayola in the pack.

Paul Lynde

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.

Joyce Meyer

Your body is the house you live in. If you destroy it...you have to leave!

Joyce Meyer

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

Emily Procter

What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.

Elizabeth Gaskell

If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends

Joe Biden

I was in sit-ins to desegregate restaurants and movie houses in the '60s.

Joan Cusack

Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will.

Joan Crawford

Not that anyone cares, but there's a right and wrong way to clean a house.

John George Nicolay

It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincolns single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.

John F. Kennedy

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

Jon Stewart

If you are a minority or an interest group, the Democrats will hold the debate at your house. Whereas Republicans take a slightly different approach: they have a big tent - you're just not allowed in it.

Jon Stewart

Megachurches. I can't be the only one frightened when our houses of worship sound like they could take on Godzilla.

Joyce Carol Oates

Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.

Kate Walsh

I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.

Justin Townes Earle

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across.

James M. Barrie

Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.

James L. Farmer, Jr.

Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

James Larkin

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.