house quotes

“It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.”

— Franz Kafka

“I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.' ”

— Robert Rodriguez

“I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion. ”

“I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience. ”

“If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression. ”

“Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”

— George Carlin

“Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”

— Edward Hopper

“What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”

— Edward Hopper

“There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.”

— Edward Hopper

“I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.”

— Kim Kardashian

“I always say you shouldn't weigh yourself. I don't even have a set of scales in my house.”

— Kim Kardashian

“We're news junkies in my house.”

— Stephen King

“I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.”

— Stephen King

“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.”

— Immanuel Kant

“You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market, it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house, or something like that.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“The Obama camp, the White House, and the media all condemned Romney before they condemned the attacks. Obama thought it more worthwhile to hit Romney for what he was doing than the terrorists for what they did. Romney got hit first.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?”

— Rush Limbaugh

“I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.”

— Barack Obama

“Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'”

— Barack Obama

“What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.”

— Barack Obama

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