Besides, the only thing you can control in life is your wardrobe. Cars break down when you least expect it. Boats eat money and gas. Your house, your mate, your friends, your family, even your career, are beyond your control. However, you're in total command of what you put on your back each morning.
. . . no effort based on love is wasted.
Show dogs and their handlers remind me of Brooke Shields and her mother: an incredibly disheveled person tethered to an impeccably groomed animal.
I think bad taste should be a felony.
Anyone who believes that men and women have the same mind-set hasn't lived on earth. A man thinks that everything he does is wonderful, that the sun rises and sets around him. But a woman has doubts.
My husband says that I'm afraid of heights, but that's not true. What I'm afraid of is falling.
One person's mess is merely another person's filing system.
Remodeling is like pulling a loose thread on a cheap sweater - the job keeps unraveling.
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.
At the beginning of a remodel, money is everything, but as you go along, it becomes secondary to the vision. You can't have the house looking like a glorious jewel and leave the cracked linoleum or the icky light fixture, so you spend and spend and spend. Then one day it suddenly occurs to you that all that play money you've been throwing around is real - and it's in someone else's bank account.
I have never enjoyed an experience that begins at five A. M.
. . . trying to control construction costs is like trying to control the cost of a hospital stay. You may not realize that when you sneeze and the nurse hands you a box of tissues, it generates a $5 charge on your bill. But you still have to pay.
A book collection is a cross between a Rorschach test and This Is Y our Life. It marks your life clearly like rings on a tree.
Truth is funnier than most things you can make up.
. . . blueprints are like pets and children -- difficult to appreciate or understand unless they're yours.
Call me an alarmist, but there are certain words I don't like to hear together: cheap fireplace, discount brakes, cut-rate surgery.
Los Angeles: A city I like because it's easy to tell who the strange people are.
But a hobby, like a habit, makes you forget about important things in life.
With a car there is always a problem.
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.