House Quotes - Page 36

• My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I paired it very vibrant colors and - bugs I think that they're pretty. And I think that they're fascinating and they're natural.

  Emily Procter

  Thinking, Color, Antiques

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• 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.

  Emily Procter

  Cop, Clean, Coming Back

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• Heads of warring nations could learn a lot about how to achieve lasting peace by watching dogs and cats who live in the same house.

  Blaize Clement

  Dog, Cat, Achieve

  Blaize Clement (2010). “Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.26, Minotaur Books

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• I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.

  John Frusciante

  People, Needs, Remember

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• I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.

  Charles Kennedy

  Thinking, Kind, Caricatures

  "Kennedy's bride-to-be dismisses drink claims", www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2002.

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• There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.

  Charles Kennedy

  Country, Fire, Voice

  "Wrong war, wrong time, wrong enemy, warns Labour rebel" by Nicholas Watt, Michael White, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2003.

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• Whenever I stumble over my own feet, or blurt out a thought that makes no sense at all, or leave the house wearing one pattern too many, I always think, 'It's okay, I'm from New Jersey.' I love New Jersey, because it's not just an all-purpose punch line, but probably a handy legal defense, as in 'Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.'

  Paul Rudnick

  Thinking, Feet, Wife

  Paul Rudnick (2009). “I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey”, Harper

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• Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.

  Will Carleton

  Way, Hills, Poor

  Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.51, Applewood Books

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• In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic harmony in this earthly house. That, I believe, is the meaning of this live.

  Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

  Believe, Heaven, Balance

  Letter to a friend in July 1981. "In Memoriam R. W. van Bemmelen," Geologie en Mijnbouw, Volume 63, No. 1, 1984.

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• But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all day washing and ironing, but at night you have the delicious feeling of sunny clean sheets and airy pillows to lie on. If you clean, you sit down at nightfall with the house shining and faintly smelling of wax, all yours to enjoy right then and there. And if you cook—that creation you lift from the oven goes right to the table.

  Gladys Taber

  Jobs, Fun, Lying

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• It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Lying, Rain, Dark

  "Paul Clifford". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1830.

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• Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Piano, Plus

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

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• Thanksgiving is coming. I wonder what the holiday will be like at Dog the Bounty Hunter’s house—obviously, they’ll have a turkey with all-white meat.

  Chelsea Handler

  Dog, Holiday, Turkeys

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• Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Lying, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.954, Library of America

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• As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted Al Qaeda. I believe the program is essential to US national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities.

  Jane Harman

  Believe, Nsa, Essentials

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• The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process

  Mary McCarthy

  Work, Toil, Naked

  "The Vita Activa". The New Yorker, October 18, 1958.

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• I find my movie props in my neighbors houses.

  Zach Braff

  Neighbor, Props

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• People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming.

  Gwen Ifill

  Cheer, Military, Long

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• There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture....The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.

  Gustav Stickley

  Wall, Curves, Ideas

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• I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else’s county, where the climate is different, the food is different, the light is different, where the mundane preoccupations of life at home don’t seem to apply and it is even fun to go shopping.

  Jan Morris

  Fun, Moving, Home

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• Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home owners deduct mortgage interest payments.

  Florence King

  Women, Home, Unique

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.91, Macmillan

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• Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything.

  Meister Eckhart

  Strength, Soul, Honor

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• The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

  Bill Vaughan

  Cutting, Names, Tree

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• Having never left the house you are looking for the way home

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Home, Awakening, Way

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• How do you know if you are living to far above (or below) those among whom you are ministering? Ask yourself this question: Is this (car, house, lifestyle) helping me or hindering me in winning and discipling people for Jesus?

  Loren Cunningham

  Jesus, Winning, People

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