Quotes on House

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, and the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, and knows not that they are such. 'T is as easy as breath. 'T is like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, and none knows what it is.

It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.

The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.