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"I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led to The wrong tendencies I was in the wrong place At the wrong time For the wrong reason And the wrong rhyme On the wrong day Of the wrong week Used the wrong method With the wrong technique Wrong Wrong."
"Be willing that any feeling can visit your house."
"I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway."
"Every house needs a grandmother in it."
"I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one."
"Hot Fuzz in a strange way, for me, summons up the spirit of watching R-rated films that I was too young to watch. I was 14, 13 maybe, when Robocop came out. Seeing Robocop at my brother's friend's house, and not really supposed to be watching it, because it was [rated] 18 and I was 13. That mind-blowing experience, because not only is it a great film, but it feels illicit."
"I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it."
"I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows."
"It takes almost no capital to open a new See's candy store. We're drowning in capital of our own that has almost no cost. It would be crazy to franchise stores like some capital-starved pancake house. We like owning our own stores as a matter of quality control."
"Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly."
"I don't really step out the house trying to make a fashion statement. I step out the house making sure I'm comfortable."
"... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in."
"The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood."
"There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts."
"A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house"
"The White House belongs to all Americans. It's supposed to be something we're proud of."
"Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again."
"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
"If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light."
"I got into the Kennedy White House because at the time I was president of the Women's National Press Club, and they assigned me to cover the early days of the Kennedy campaign. Jackie especially. Everyone was interested in the family."
