House Quotes - Page 16

• No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

  Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”

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• The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.

  Paul Gillmor

  Work, Important, Care

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• Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back.

  Colin Fletcher

  Journey, Thinking, Hiking

  Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.146, Knopf

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• I don't think the market can keep going up. In the U.S., we see real estate not going up.. houses are selling at lower prices. You can't have anything going up 10 percent to 20 percent to 30 percent indefinitely.

  Eli Broad

  Real, Thinking, Investing

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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Steps, Instinct, Uncertain

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.398, Penguin

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• Living in a house where domestic violence goes on every day never feels like home. You don't have to suffer in silence. I'm giving my full support to this website as it will give proper and practical advice about what to do if you feel afraid. Remember, you're not alone.

  Beverley Knight

  Home, Remember You, Remembers You

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• There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

  Elijah Wood

  Real, Unique, Our World

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• Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

  Hesiod

  Home, Years, Wife

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• If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

  Bill Vaughan

  Thinking, Differences, Individuality

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• I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

  Britney Spears

  Fear, Long, Would Be

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• A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.

  Uwe Boll

  Dark, Typical, Easier

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• The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

  Paul Weyrich

  White, Opponents, White House

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• Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

  Uwe Boll

  Today, Horror, Film

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• In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Phones, Light

  Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf

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• The House
  
  ...She lays her beams in music,
  In music everyone,
  To the cadence of the whirling world
  Which dances around the sun-
  That so they shall not be displaced
  By lapses or by wars,
  But for the love of happy souls
  Outlive the newest stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Music, Stars

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• Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

  Sophocles

  Men, Hands, Antigone

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles: The Theban Plays”, p.252, Routledge

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• We just bought a new house, so my wife's been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again

  Tom Araya

  Couple, Moving, Home

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• I am my little people's star and slave. When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star. Other presidents' wives have gone to the barrios wearing house dresses and slippers. That's not what people want to see. People want someone they can love, someone to set an example.

  Imelda Marcos

  Stars, People, Wife

  The Los Angeles Times, 1980.

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• A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

  Irving Penn

  Beautiful, Photography, Pages

  Merry A. Foresta, Irving Penn, William F. Stapp, National Museum of American Art (U.S.), National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) (1990). “Irving Penn master images: the collections of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• House Speaker Pelosi worried about the opposition, the tone of it, perhaps leading to violence as it did in the 70s. Theres more recent examples of anti-government violence - occurring even in the mid-90s. Do you worry about that?

  David Gregory

  Government, Worry, Example

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 20, 2009.

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• I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Writing, Rooms, Hospitality

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• When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Children, Light, Treasure

  "Christmas Carol". Interview with Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 04, 2005.

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• The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where did he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody knows. Taller than a house the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, at the very brink, in the darkness.

  Ted Hughes

  Men, Iron, Darkness

  Ted Hughes (2011). “The Iron Man”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

  Stevie Smith

  Running, Night, Fog

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• When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities.

  Jacques Audiard

  Father, Writing, Kids

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