Top House Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of House quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Luigi Pirandello
Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.
- Luigi Pirandello
Collection: House
Image of James St. James
When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners.
- James St. James
Collection: House
Image of Sam Peckinpah
All I want is to enter my house justified.
- Sam Peckinpah
Collection: House
Image of Ruby Wax
For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.
- Ruby Wax
Collection: House
Image of Steve McCurry
To become a photographer leave your house first.
- Steve McCurry
Collection: House
Image of Dennis Miller
A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods.
- Dennis Miller
Collection: House
Image of Harry Nilsson
I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, "Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it".
- Harry Nilsson
Collection: House
Image of Octavio Paz
The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.
- Octavio Paz
Collection: House
Image of Jill Shalvis
You could start an argument in an empty house.
- Jill Shalvis
Collection: House
Image of Scott Spencer
A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.
- Scott Spencer
Collection: House
Image of Eiji Yoshikawa
There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house.
- Eiji Yoshikawa
Collection: House
Image of Alice Munro
A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside it altered by being viewed from these windows.
- Alice Munro
Collection: House
Image of Somaly Mam
What you have learned from experience is worth much more than gold. If you have a house it may burn down. Any kind of possession can be lost, but your experience is yours forever. Keep it and find a way to use it.
- Somaly Mam
Collection: House
Image of Sara Paretsky
But what I've learned is, when your adrenaline is flowing, you can do a lot. I'm not very physical, but once some punks were trying to break into my house and I chased them down.
- Sara Paretsky
Collection: House
Image of Jodi Sweetin
I don't know if Jared Leto or Leo [DiCaprio] would ever do Fuller House, but you never know.
- Jodi Sweetin
Collection: House
Image of Mark Spitz
So in my mind I own a lot of house records still
- Mark Spitz
Collection: House
Image of Nick Frost
I am a hard house freak and I don't care who knows.
- Nick Frost
Collection: House
Image of Murray Rothbard
Just as no one is morally required to answer a robber truthfully when he asks if there are any valuables in one’s house, so no one can be morally required to answer truthfully similar questions asked by the State, e.g., when filling out income tax returns.
- Murray Rothbard
Collection: House
Image of Arthur Miller
Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
- Arthur Miller
Collection: House
Image of Tracy Chevalier
It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.
- Tracy Chevalier
Collection: House
Image of Paul Merton
If you stay in a house and you go to the bathroom and there is no toilet paper, you can always slide down the banisters. Don't tell me you haven't done it.
- Paul Merton
Collection: House
Image of Joey Comeau
Happiness is not a house where you can live. (But it is a house you can build.)
- Joey Comeau
Collection: House
Image of Lewis Black
My favorite health club is the International House of Pancakes
- Lewis Black
Collection: House
Image of Al Sharpton
If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
- Al Sharpton
Collection: House
Image of Carrot Top
The street in the center of town was Butts road. I stole the sign and told the audience, this must be where the assholes live. I also had a Neighborhood Crime Watch - it takes about 20 seconds to break into a house but it took me an hour to unbolt this sign.
- Carrot Top
Collection: House
Image of David Bowie
Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.
- David Bowie
Collection: House
Image of Sister Parish
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.
- Sister Parish
Collection: House
Image of Alex Pettyfer
Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?
- Alex Pettyfer
Collection: House
Image of Aaron Neville
I sing around the house, in the shower
- Aaron Neville
Collection: House
Image of John Dean
Had the Senate or House, or both, censured or somehow warned Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Watergate might have been prevented. Hopefully the Senate will not sit by while even more serious abuses unfold before it.
- John Dean
Collection: House
Image of John Dean
One of the reasons I thought a censure resolution was appropriate was because if somebody had censured Nixon or even if a resolution of either house had passed, saying what you're doing is unacceptable to Congress, that shot across the bow might have straightened him up.
- John Dean
Collection: House
Image of Hope Mirrlees
A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.
- Hope Mirrlees
Collection: House
Image of Gail Carriger
She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.
- Gail Carriger
Collection: House
Image of Herman Wouk
The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.
- Herman Wouk
Collection: House
Image of Nelson Piquet
Driving in Monte Carlo is like riding a bike in your house.
- Nelson Piquet
Collection: House
Image of Nadeem Aslam
Her mind is a haunted house.
- Nadeem Aslam
Collection: House
Image of Christopher Buckley
I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive. She hasn't done a single thing as congressman or Speaker of the House that has turned me on, but I find her quite okay.
- Christopher Buckley
Collection: House
Image of Alan Weisman
in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.
- Alan Weisman
Collection: House
Image of Richard Wright
Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
- Richard Wright
Collection: House
Image of Clara Zetkin
. .women are house as well as factory slaves and are forced to bear a double workload.
- Clara Zetkin
Collection: House
Image of Jennifer Donnelly
Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.
- Jennifer Donnelly
Collection: House
Image of Elsie de Wolfe
There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.
- Elsie de Wolfe
Collection: House
Image of Elsie de Wolfe
A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.
- Elsie de Wolfe
Collection: House
Image of Orlando Aloysius Battista
You're never quite sure how you feel about a neighbor until a 'For Sale' sign suddenly appears in front of his house.
- Orlando Aloysius Battista
Collection: House
Image of Martha Grimes
Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & blinding all over the place. And crying. Her director rushes into her house, puts his arms around her & says, "I ran all the way". That's what I want.
- Martha Grimes
Collection: House
Image of Bernard of Clairvaux
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Collection: House
Image of Emily Post
Houses without personality are a series of walled enclosures with furniture standing around in them. Other houses are filled with things of little intrinsic value, even with much that is shabby and yet they have that inviting atmosphere.
- Emily Post
Collection: House
Image of Paul Stanley
I live in the house bad reviews built.
- Paul Stanley
Collection: House
Image of Angela Kinsey
I love 'House' - I love 'House' so much.
- Angela Kinsey
Collection: House
Image of Alice Cary
Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God!
- Alice Cary
Collection: House