Household Quotes - Page 21

• Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Smell, Language

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.4, Univ of California Press

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• Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Purpose, Planning, Sensible

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• We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.

  Ruben Studdard

  Names, Three, Four

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• A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.

  Anthea Turner

  Party, Events, Diaries

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• The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.

  Caleb Cushing

  Running, Blood, Veins

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• It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

  Diane Cilento

  Grandmother, Piano, Different

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• We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

  Joey Skaggs

  Bills, Tribes, Function

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• FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Long, Baptism, Cooking

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.91, University of Georgia Press

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• There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Satisfaction, Seeing, Housework

  Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”

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• I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.

  Arianna Huffington

  Mother, Men, Greek

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• A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.

  Ada Leverson

  England, Should, Butlers

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• Be sure to incorporate your pooch into your daily activities to make her feel like a true family member. You can do this by signing your dog's name - or her paw print - on birthday cards, by getting 'from our dog to your dog' holiday cards, or by including your dog when asked the number of family members in your household. These small, considerate actions will make you an ideal petowner.

  Joyce Jillson

  Dog, Holiday, Numbers

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• [On television:] It's made people moronic, it's robbed people of their ability to think. It's done tremendous damage, and every single household that has a small child should take it and throw it out the window.

  Laurie Colwin

  Children, Thinking, People

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• Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank.

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Grateful, Sunshine, Loss

  Mary Mapes Dodge (1866). “Hans Brinker: Or, The Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland”, p.262

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• Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness.

  Isabella Beeton

  Income, Waste, Degenerates

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• What we're doing with the digital permissions that we have for Xbox One is no different to that. If I am playing on that disc, which is installed to the hard drive on my Xbox One, everybody in my household who has permission to use my Xbox One can use that piece of content. So I can give that piece of content to my son and he can play it on the same system.

  Larry Hryb

  Xbox, Son, Play

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• In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.

  Per Petterson

  Hurt, Tragedy, Littles

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• When you have given yourself to Christ, leave yourself there, and go about your work as a child in His household.

  Charles Seymour Robinson

  Children, Christ, Given

  Charles Seymour Robinson (1880). “Studies in the New Testament”

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• Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters.

  Vivian Gornick

  Doctors, Nurse, Tasks

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• You have a great many things to do when you are under house arrest. On the one hand, it is more comfortable than sitting in prison; on the other hand, you have to look after a household, which is strenuous under such circumstances.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Hands, House, Looks

  "'We Have to Tackle This -- With Peaceful Means'". Interview with Thilo Thielke, www.spiegel.de. November 22, 2010.

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• Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members. It is frightening to see people rooting in garbage pails on streets, living in cardboard crates under bridges, while their government wages war. Even when there is an emergency in a household, decent parents do not forget to feed the children.

  Anne Truitt

  Children, War, Caring

  Anne Truitt (1996). “PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist”, Scribner

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• The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times.

  Sadao Araki

  Foundation, Crowns, Empires

  "Sun's Son's Son". "TIME" Magazine, January 1, 1934.

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• Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Self, Order, Should

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.

  Robert Graves

  Taken, Mixtures, Emergencies

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• What is gayer than believing in a household god?

  Franz Kafka

  God, Believe, Belief

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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