Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.
I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.
The plants have taught me they don't like to be potted too long - it's very restrictive to them so I would plant them outside if you could, or in a green house.
She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. from "The Lady of the Haunted House
I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.
Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold.
Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward.
I'm always moving apartments or moving houses or moving cities.
Money. . . buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors. . . . The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.
Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John's, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents.
Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.
I'm kinda racist. . . I don't really like dark butts too much. . . It's rare that I do dark butts. Like really rare. . . It's like, no darker than me. No darker than me. I love the pool test. . . . If you can be like 'Yo, baby. I met you in the club. Let's go back to my house. Jump in the pool exactly like you are. '-And you don't come looking better wet than you were before you got in the pool then that's not a good look.
In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory.
They're doing everything they can to tighten security at the White House. Today, on the roof of the White House, they added one of those fake owls.
I love going to all kinds of movies, I screen DVDs in my house, but I go to the theatre a lot in the afternoon. I don't get bugged because there aren't many people around.
I like to have a massage therapist come to my house, get a massage, take a bath, go to bed. That's a perfect night alone for me.
Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.
Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the voters this election. I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she's been about. And here they're going to put her back in charge.
With gas cookers and chip pans in every kitchen, the chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their houses down. The second technique was the ever popular chimney fire and number three had to be the drunken cigarette drop on the carpet. Mind you, why they'd be cooking chips at this hour was anyone's guess.
