House Quotes - Page 10

• I often fake my death and then just show up at people's houses. They say 'that's a good one Thom' but I know maybe they don't really think it's a funny joke.

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, People, Fake

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• You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president

  James Baker

  White, Tennis, President

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• Well, it came from the White House, it came from people around the White House. It came from all over. I got a call on 9/11. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, 'You got to say this is connected. This is state-sponsored terrorism. This has to be connected to Saddam Hussein.

  Wesley Clark

  Home, White, Cnn

  "Daily MoJo", www.motherjones.com. July 18, 2003.

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• We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair.

  Newt Gingrich

  Hope, Failure, Fall

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• A Not So Big House feels more spacious than many of its oversized neighbors because it is space with substance, all of it in use every day.

  Sarah Susanka

  Space, Substance, Neighbor

  Sarah Susanka, Grey Crawford (2002). “Creating the Not So Big House: Insights and Ideas for the New American Home”, p.9, Taunton Press

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• His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Names, People, Calling

  Babbitt ch. 1 (1922)

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• It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat

  Christine O'Donnell

  Careers, White, People

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• I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

  Thelonious Monk

  Party, Prohibition, Used

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• I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mourning, Grew Up, States

  "'Where the Wild Things Are:' The Psychology Behind Maurice Sendak's Classic" by Mikaela Conley, abcnews.go.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Writing, Cleaning, Ifs

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• Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord's sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike off the knots of pride self-love and world-worship and infidelity that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Sweet, Father, Pride

  Samuel Rutherford, Hamilton Smith (2008). “Extracts from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford”, p.49, Scripture Truth

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• That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win

  Liz Phair

  Winning, Cds, Play

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• In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

  Bill Laswell

  Atmosphere, Quality, Bass

  "OHM - The Early Gurus of Electronic Music". Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. April 2000.

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• Man, I've got a Rolls-Royce. Big house. Limo. All those things. This is why every kid's dream is to be a major-league ballplayer.

  Lou Whitaker

  Dream, Kids, Men

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• Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power. Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.

  Shigeru Ban

  People, Architecture, Invisible

  "Paper Palaces" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. August 11, 2014.

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• Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of colonizers and without the steel helmet and the gun barrel we cannot plant a tree and build a house.

  Moshe Dayan

  Eye, Gun, Land

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• Children will draw pictures with everything in them...houses and trees and people and animals...and the sun AND the moon. Grown-up says, "That's a nice picture, Honey, but you put the moon and the sun in the sky at the same time and that isn't right." But the child is right! The sun and moon are in the sky at the same time.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Nice, Animal

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• People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

  Aristotle

  Player, Building Houses, People

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• Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire.

  Douglas Adams

  Differences, Fire, People

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptier. My house on earth, what rich rewards. That guerdon were.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Inspiration, Home

  Amy Carmichael (2012). “Fragments that Remain”, p.22, CLC Publications

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• Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact.

  Charles Babbage

  Government, Class, Facts

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Christmas, Party, Thinking

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• It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all?

  Thomas Traherne

  Kings, Wall, Men

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do.

  Rod Dixon

  Running, Thinking, Race

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• The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.

  J. D. Salinger

  Valhalla, Manhattan, Might

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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