You know the best thing about having a house? You get to plant whatever you want in the yard and watch it grow.
In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law.
At 16, I got housing benefit, and I had my own flat in an old woman’s house. I was the only 16-year-old I knew living alone.
I love contemporary art, although I wouldn’t want a pickled shark in my house.
I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I’ve left the opera house.
House music is the root of all electronic dance music.
What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
I’m used to seeing it, but it’s weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it’s kind of surreal to have one in your house.
If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
I’m always looking to the next thing. There are always hurdles, whether it’s the White House dinner or hosting charity events or that night’s show: Until they’re over, I worry, then I move right on to the next thing. It’s hard for me to enjoy the moment. I’m just thinking about not failing.
I think my music covers a broader sound than just ‘Tropical House’… My goal is to simply be a great producer in my own right without being pigeonholed.
Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
In the Bigg Boss’ house, you don’t have phones, you don’t have places to run away. The only options are fight or flight.
I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He broke his back and was disabled, and the first memory I have of him is in the hospital. My mother was a working mother – she had two jobs. Everybody in the house had to help out.
The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.
I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I’m forced to.
I understand the power of symbols, and if I had anything on my house that seriously offended someone, I’d take it down if for no other reason than common courtesy.
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, ‘I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,’ and tell my children that.
I can’t write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.
I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house?
I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
Our family home, a large house in Hampstead, was sold to Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. I remember being told that ‘someone who eats bats’ was buying it.
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.
Don’t say ‘the White House wants.’ Buildings can’t want.
The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.
My father kicked me out of the house by the time I was 16.
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.
In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.
He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.
Success doesn’t find you when you’re alone in your house.
I learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It’s crowding me out of my house.
I don’t understand why people set limits, like I will buy a house, then car, and so on. But I ask them, what after you’ve achieved all that? I have come to realize the value other things, like nature, or spending time with my family in Ludhiana or peace of mind.
I can’t say it was always ice cream and rainbows in our house. We would yell and we would fight and I was a terrible child, and it was, but, on the other hand, laughs. I don’t think I’m alone in this.
My favorite room in the house is my kitchen. It’s definitely the heart and soul of our home. It’s where we gather in the morning as a family to start the day, and it’s where we wind down at night over supper.
I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.
It’s very hard for me to get a new car. It’s really hard for me to get a new house. It’s really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.
Obviously, everyone’s different, but I love just settling down and having a barbecue with my friends at the house.
I think having Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House is going to send a very wonderful lesson to the American public that women can be strong, they can be tough, they can be effective, and they can lead this country as political leaders.
I think it would be so much fun to be in the White House.
I have a whole closet in my house that’s dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I’ve collected over the years.
People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
Other fans might stop coming to games when their teams fall in the standings. Blazers fans just pack the house even more.
In the area we live, there’s a large show of children who run from one house to another house to another house. That’s lovely because it means all the children play together, and all the adults get to sit around and have coffees and read the papers or go to the park.
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
Get out of your house and go see some live performance, for God’s sake. There are people creating things just outside your window.
You can’t leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.
I used to have a gym in the house. I thought that was a fantastic luxury.
The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn’t want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.
Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.
In archaeology, context is everything. Objects allow us to reconstruct the past. Taking artifacts from a temple or an ancient private house is like emptying out a time capsule.
After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.
The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‘I’m not interested,’ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.
When punk came along, I found my generation’s music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, ’cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, ‘This is it.’
Growing up in Canada, none of my family were performers or anything like that, but I was terrible at hockey, so they needed something for me to do on Saturdays for me to get out of the house. I signed up for theater school on Saturdays, and I’d go for four-and-a-half hours every Saturday morning and learn about theater.
I grew up in a house of no love or emotion – it kind of sticks with you.
The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That’s it. I’ll house you, protect you, I’ll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.
The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
