House Quotes - Page 20

• I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Men, Good Man, Mind

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• A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Husband, Wife, Doe

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• Lindsay Lohan's collaboration was a disaster. I am furious but I can't do anything about it. That happens to a lot of designers. We were the creators and patrons, responsible for the creation and destiny of our houses. But when we gave up our houses, we gave up our souls.

  Emanuel Ungaro

  Destiny, Soul, Collaboration

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• Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York! And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House, Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!

  Howard Dean

  New York, Oklahoma, Texas

  Remarks after Iowa caucuses, Des Moines, Iowa, 19 Jan. 2004. The "Yeah" at the end of these comments was perceived as a scream and contributed substantially to the decline of his presidential candidacy.

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• I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

  Beverly Cleary

  Inspiring, Mother, Children

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• There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Yards, Biographies, Reason

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.290, Macmillan

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• Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers.

  Sigmund Freud

  Summer, Dream, May

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• My dad came over to the house... went into his pocket and pulled out a handful of money, and began to pass it out to the children... This was the same man who, when I was his child, I would ask him for 50 cents, this man would tell me his life's story.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Dad, Men

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• ... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he actually arranged the works of Mozart and other classical composers for guitar, something that had never been done before ... Segovias' style is not slick or contrived, but it's still very clean and his timing is impeccable ... it's got a feeling of casual elegance, as if he's sitting around the house in Spain with a jug of wine, just playing from the heart.

  Roger McGuinn

  Music, Heart, Wine

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• James Brown opened at least six of our House of Blues clubs. He always delivered, but he demanded the respect of an emperor. But, come on, he's James Brown ! ... I got to play on stage with him. Did he ever fine me ? (Brown was known to fine players for flubbing notes or steps) - I would have loved to have been fined by James Brown !

  Dan Aykroyd

  Music, Player, Six

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• ...every once in a while it seems like the cosmos part and something great plops into your lap, that's how it was with "Hotel California".. a leased beach house in Malibu ... all the doors wide open on a spectacular July day probably in 1975 ... soaking wet ... thinking the world is a wonderful place to be... with an acoustic 12 string ... those chords just oozed out.

  Don Felder

  Music, Beach, Thinking

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• The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most people are willing to. It chips away a person's dreams to the point that the hopelessness shows through, and the dreamer accepts that hard work and borrowed houses are all this life will ever be.

  Rick Bragg

  Dream, Hard Work, People

  Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.25, Vintage

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• Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.

  Camille Paglia

  Children, Pain, Men

  "Vamps and Tramps". Book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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• House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.

  Avicii

  Europe, America, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.

  Melissa Bean

  Stars, Home, Agency

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• So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving of judgment. Not the children, for they inherit eternal life. So who is wronged? Ironically, I think the most difficult part of this whole debate is the apparent wrong done to the Israeli soldiers themselves. Can you imagine what it would be like to have to break into some house and kill a terrified woman and her children? The brutalising effect on these Israeli soldiers is disturbing.

  William Lane Craig

  Children, Thinking, Soldier

  "Why I refuse to debate with William Lane Craig" by Richard Dawkins, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2011.

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• Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

  Tracy Kidder

  Giving, Gone, World

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• When you sit down to design something, it can be anything, a car, a toaster, a house, a tall building or a shoe, what you draw or what you design is really a culmination of everything that you've seen and done in your life previous to that point.

  Tinker Hatfield

  Shoes, Car, Design

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• Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Rain, Fire, Wind

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• The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

  Stephen Gardiner

  World, Architecture, Interiors

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• That match was late evening and I had the experience of the electricity of the Centre Court because it was packed, a full house for the whole match. It had been a great year for me, first time there and I had the full taste of Wimbledon.

  John Newcombe

  Years, Great Year, Wimbledon

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• The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Keys, Focus, Treasure

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.67, editionNEXT.com

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• Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Self, Dwelling, Weakness

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a slipper? By the same token, why do we not believe that if innumerable letters of the Greek alphabet were poured all over the market-place they would eventually happen to form the text of the Iliad?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Believe, Science, Greek

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• When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

  Origen

  Strong, Weather, May

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