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 dream about having a house by the water and not doing anything, not feeling ambitious, nor having the need to make money.

Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't hang out with Ted Nugent.

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].

I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

I'm great at washing dishes and I'm great at cleaning the house and all that kind of stuff. I don't like doing it, but I'm.

If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

There's a lot of meth [in Bisbee]. So there's an ex-cop-car Tahoe and a BE DRUG FREE van parked right in front of my house.

You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath put away uncured.

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.

I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

My feet, they haul me Round the House, They hoist me up the Stairs; I only have to steer them, and They Ride me Everywheres.

I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.

According to the White House, the president's proposed 2016-2017 spending would add - get this - $62 billion to the deficit.

The White House announced plans to begin normalizing relations with Cuba - this as we're awkwardizing relations with Russia.

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

That defining moment at my friend's house, when his uncle looks in my eye and reads me the word of God, I have an awakening.

I've always been kind of surrounded by music my whole life, so my earliest memories of it were just hearing it in the house.

Tom Ridge now says we don't have to run out and put plastic sheets all over the house. Great, tell that to my dead parakeet.

People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House.

I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

I clean my house, although I have help. I'm on the floor getting spots. I can't stand a dirty house. I'm a cleaning fanatic.

Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house by themselves.

We cannot be a house divided - divided in will, divided in interest, divided in soul. We cannot be a house divided and live.

I can't leave the house without making sure all the beds are made right, so they are neat and fresh when I come in at night.

Stand on your truth and what you believe in. Don't let anyone alter that because you can't build a house on weak foundation.

I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

If you come into my house, I'm going to fight much more viciously to get you out than if we were on a neutral piece of land.

I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish.

Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.

It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.

I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.

Until the President produces a responsible deficit reduction plan, I'm not going to the White House to negotiate with myself.

We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.

Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

When I saw houses in Palmdale going for $500K, I knew something was wrong. If you got foreclosed, I don't feel sorry for you!

I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.

I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.

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