House Quotes · Page 123

Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever.

— W. Bruce Cameron

Casino games such as roulette, blackjack, baccarat, slot machines and so on, are stacked in favour of the house.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but…

— Chanakya

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my…

— Horace

if a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the…

— Hammurabi

Older prisoners are more expensive for prisons to house because they tend to require more health care over time.

— Clint Smith

Our house was in the middle of town; behind it was the ghetto, from which Jews were sent to concentration camps.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Now that I'm a mom, I'm way more laid back. If you come into my house, don't look for a coaster. Forget…

— Angela Kinsey

If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth…

— William Lilly

I don't think my parents imagined I'd represent England when they first drove me to mini-rugby at Maidenhead. I was only five…

— James Haskell

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good…

— Elizabeth Edwards

Be mindful of the very moment you are living. Start exactly this second. You don't wait until the children get out of…

— Alexandra Stoddard

My mother was a cracker jack typist. And she would come in and sit at my house and type the final type…

— Judy Blume

He was a specialist in Feng Shui; that is to say, he was consulted as to the correct ubication and orientation of…

— Daniele Vare

Abhinav Shukla and I were never on the same page inside the 'Bigg Boss' house, because of the turn of events and…

— Rahul Vaidya

It's so hard to actually find that niche for yourself. It's like when Nicolas Ghesquiére found Balenciaga. I hate to sound esoteric,…

— Francisco Costa

There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. Such was…

— John Galsworthy

Whenever I stumble over my own feet, or blurt out a thought that makes no sense at all, or leave the house…

— Paul Rudnick

Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. Never the least stir made the listeners,…

— Walter de La Mare

I still think of myself as a house. Ravan tried to fix this problem of self-image, as he called it. To teach…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Michael Sorrell had no experience running a college. He had been a lawyer and White House special assistant, but he knew Paul…

— Hari Sreenivasan

... We have seen dog-tired Members of Congress marching lockstep ahead with their eyes fixed only on the end of the 100…

— John Gibbons

I'm thinking of doing everything now, including this stupid act of waiting for someone in front of their house so you should…

— Joo

You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.

— Georges Danton

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a…

— Robert Breault

I just want to be like a little bit of Bluto from 'Animal House,' mixed with like some amazing diva like RuPaul.

— Willam Belli

Since the time I have graduated from college, I don't think I have stayed in my house for two days at a…

— Abhinav Shukla

My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.

— Dennis C. Blair

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.

— Chris Christie

I'm not extra, I'm not going to be the person walking around the house in an extravagant gown during quarantine.

— KiKi Layne

Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead.

— Johnny Carson

I absolutely love Dorothy Dunnett's 'House of Niccolo' series and the 'Lymond Chronicles.' They are so detailed.

— Deborah Harkness

It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic.

— Joanne Froggatt

My favorite room in my house is my bedroom; my private space where I can go to do my reading or listen…

— Shirley Ballas

I live in a loft in a building I designed, but for my dream house I'd get Frank Gehry, just to see…

— Hugh Hardy

A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.

— Coco Chanel

As leader of the House, I seek to do exactly that, treating all members of Parliament with courtesy and respect.

— Andrea Leadsom

People have been really forced to face their relationships while on lockdown and then stuck in a house together.

— Brett Goldstein

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and…

— Nicole Krauss