House Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.

  Lillie Langtry

  Flower, Monaco

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• My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.

  Katherine Moennig

  Funny, Friendship, Growing Up

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• Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

  Bao ?ai

  Country, Independent, Citizens

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• A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors of houses in order to sell needles, thread and buttons. He soon found the people did not want them, and his small stock was thrown back on his hands. Then he said wisely, "I'll not buy any more of these goods, but I'll go and ask people what they do want." Thereafter he studied the needs and desires of people, found out just what they most wanted, endeavored to meet those wants, and became the greatest business man of his time.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Business, Men, Hands

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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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• In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.

  Keith Thibodeaux

  Christmas, Summer, Beach

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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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• 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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• 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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• Houses, like people, have personalities, and, like the personalities of people, they are partly molded by all that has happened to them.

  Louis Bromfield

  People, Personality, Happened

  Louis Bromfield (1939). “It Takes All Kinds”

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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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• I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Inspirational, Dance, Interesting

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• That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Flirting, Soul

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• In the dream life you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Dream, Night, Trying

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• Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded.

  Paulo Coelho

  Air, Tree, Heaven

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• In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Marriage, Rooms, Interpreter

  Stanley Kunitz (1983). “The Wellfleet Whale and Companion Poems”

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• The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Stars, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Football, Kind

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

  Bryan Ferry

  Soccer, Football, Stars

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• Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.

  Christopher Alexander

  Beautiful, Dream, Children

  Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.7, New York : Oxford University Press

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• I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly?

  Jay Kay

  Beautiful, Home, Garden

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• I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food.

  Jean Dujardin

  Garden, Names, Green

  "Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

  Miranda Richardson

  Garden, Needs, My Friends

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• Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'

  Susannah York

  Garden, Looks, Want

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