I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

You have a right to have a feather duster. If anyone breaks in, you can make sure they're really clean as they're robbing your house.

But when you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with their dwelling.

I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.

Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.

My battalion motto in the Marines was, 'Whatever it takes,' and I'm going to do whatever it takes to help win back the House in 2018.

My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young.

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.

He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends.

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.

Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

While President Bush was out of town Hillary Clinton stopped by the White House on Friday for an important meeting with her decorator.

I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? 200,000.

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

The minute I leave my house - that is where I feel safe - I'm immediately in the jungle. The key is to survive through the cold world.

Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.

I don't really leave my house too much, 'cause I don't like... it's funny, I don't really like to be high and famous at the same time.

In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.

Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye.

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well.

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

When I have trouble sleeping, I'll read, watch old episodes of 'Sex and the City,' or dance around my house. Music helps me wind down.

By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.

In order to be successful, you have to honor what's in old fashion house, but you also have to play with it and push the limits of it.

When Arsenal knocks on any door, it's difficult to say no. When it knocks on my door, this is my house and it makes it very difficult.

Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

I've never understood why anybody makes a big deal about mansions. It's just a house with more rooms. You still have to face yourself.

It's nice to live in a country that has its priorities straight: the library's open three hours a week, and the House of Fist is 24/7.

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else.

Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

There's nothing like a string of Xmas lights inside the house to make the whole family feel like they live in a vintage clothing store.

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself.

So this bloke says to me, "Can I come in your house and talk about your carpets?" I thought "That's all I need, a Je-hoover's witness".

I always, always go to my brother Rhys's house whenever something goes wrong and he'll always say 'you'll be alright, forget about it.'

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

I like playing video games, so I spend a lot of relaxation doing that, and I live in a big house with a pool, so that is also good fun.

An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.

I'm not a peak oil person. I'm not a biohazard apocalyptic kind of freak. I don't have a supply of weapons or gold bars under my house.

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