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"I got the letter about becoming a Sir in 2000, the same year that Pauline asked me if we could finally get married. My assistant, Colette, called up and it turned out both the wedding and the Buck House ceremony were happening on the same day. I was knighted at 11 and married at four. She became an instant Lady."
"I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to."
"... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump."
"I wish I lived next to Carnegie Hall. Then, if someone asked me how to get to my house, I would just say 'Practice, practice, practice, and then take a left.'"
"(When asked who wore the pants in his house:) I do, and I also wash and iron them."
"Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows."
"Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience."
"Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too."
"All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself."
"Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery."
"Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world."
"Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an elm-tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon Elm."
"Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by the Zionists."
"I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust."
"The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house."
"If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house."
"You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. "I'll look it up." No. With Me. At my house. Now"
"If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him."
"I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic house, The house with nobody in it."
"Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets."
