The New World - Quotes

 Captain Christopher Newport:
Tonight we shall sleep aboard our ships, everyone in full armor. In the morning, we will chop down every tree within half a mile of the moorage, and use the straightest limbs to erect a line of watchtowers and to build our fort. When we have done that, we set our wheat and barley, put up houses and lay in firewood. Slackers will be whipped at the sight of their transgression.
Emery:
Sir.
Captain Christopher Newport:
Yes, Emery?
Emery:
When might we, uh, be going out to... poke about, sir?
Captain Christopher Newport:
We are not here to pillage and raid. We are here to establish a colony.
 

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Lady GaGa - Quotes

 Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. 

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Roseanne Barr - Quotes

 Excuse the mess, but we live here. 

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Joss Whedon - Quotes

 Topher Brink: I'm working! What are you doing? Besides being...

Adelle DeWitt: Being what?

Topher Brink: Wait a minute...

Adelle DeWitt: Sarcastic? Unfeeling? British?

Topher Brink: It's an animal.

Adelle DeWitt: Where?

Topher Brink: No, the word!

Adelle DeWitt: Still you have to admit, I am... very British. I don't say hard R's.

Topher Brink: You know what I like? Brown sauce. What's it made of? Science doesn't know!

Adelle DeWitt: It's made of brown.

Topher Brink: Brown. Mined from the earth by the hardscrabble brown miners of North Brownderton.

Adelle DeWitt: Oh, my God. I find lentils completely incomprehensible. What the sun-dappled hell is Echo doing at Fremont?

Topher Brink: That's got nothing to do with the drug, which means our problems are huge and indomitable.

Adelle DeWitt: Ooh. I could eat that word. Or a crisp. Do you have any crisps?

Topher Brink: You haven't seen my drawer of inappropriate starches? C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon!

Adelle DeWitt: Oh my god, I'm having such a terrible day. 

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Joss Whedon - Quotes

 Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it. 

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New York: A Documentary Film - Quotes

 voice:
Most of the big shore places were closed now. And there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of the ferryboat across the sound. And as the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away till gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes, A fresh green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams. For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent. Face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to its capacity for Wonder. - F. Scott Fitzgerald.
 

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Stephen Fry - Quotes

 I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me.

But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind. 

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Two If by Sea - Quotes

 Frank O'Brien:
People like us are born in little houses and die in little houses, and we've got to find happiness somewhere in between.
 

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Charlaine Harris - Quotes

 By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet. 

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Emily Dickinson - Quotes

 Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted. 

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Roseanne Barr - Quotes

 I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on. 

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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - Quotes

 Harry:
[Harry and Marv have captured Kevin outside the Plaza hotel] We spent nine months in jail, thinking we had the worst luck in the universe. We were wrong, little buddy.
Marv:
We're busted out of the klink and we're doing fine. We're going to be doing even better. Because we're not robbing houses anymore. Now we're robbing toy stores. At midnight tonight, we're hitting Duncan's Toy Chest. Five floors of cash. Then after that we get a couple of phony passports then it's off to Rio...
Harry:
Marv! Marv! You want to shut up?
Marv:
What's the difference? He's not going to talk to anyone. Except maybe a fish. Or the undertaker.
 

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The Secret Garden - Quotes

 Mary:
Are you my servant?
Martha:
I'm Mrs. Medlock's servant, and she's Lord Craven's, but I will be doing some upstairs housekeeping and waiting on you a bit.
Mary:
Waiting on me makes you my servant, then.
 

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P.G. Wodehouse - Quotes

 Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind. 

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Black Circle Boys - Quotes

 Shane:
Sleeping bags. Me and Ronnie, we used to sleep out in the backyard in a tent, and every time it wasn't raining we'd be like all over the place. Ronnie would sneak back in the house and steal eggs and we'd nail houses with them. And Ronnie would be like do whatever you want, I'm just gonna lie here and listen to the crickets. I'd be like okay, just for one minute. And boom, I'd be out. I'd wake up. It'd be the next morning.
 

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Erma Bombeck - Quotes

 Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven. 

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Repossessed - Quotes

 Frieda:
What does the name 'Aglet' mean anyway?
Braydon:
Well a long time ago 'Aglet' meant 'He who puts those tiny little plastic things on shoelaces' you see a long time a go a mans' name was his profession.
Frieda:
Oh so a man named Fred Carpenter would build houses and John Baker would make bread
Braydon:
Exactly
Ned:
So what did John Hancock do?
 

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Quotes

 
[extended version, the Houses of Healing]
Eowyn:
The city has fallen silent. There is no warmth left in the sun.
Faramir:
[approaching her] It is only the damp of the first spring rain. [Eowyn looks up at him]
Faramir:
I do not believe this darkness will endure.
 

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Douglas Adams - Quotes

 I eventually had to go down to the cellar... 

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Volcano - Quotes

 Bud McVie:
Yo man, my street's on fire you gotta get some trucks down there.
L.A. Fire Chief:
What Street?
Bud McVie:
What Street? You know the one with the smoke coming out of it, Stanley right over there.
L.A. Fire Chief:
We'll get to you as soon as we get this under control.
Bud McVie:
But, there won't be any houses left by then man.
L.A. Fire Chief:
Look, I'm sorry. We'll get to you as soon...
Bud McVie:
[grabbing the fire chief's arm] Yo! I'm talking about people's houses, and you're over here saving museums.
L.A. Fire Chief:
You wanna get this guy off me.
Terry Jasper:
Hey.
Bud McVie:
Oh great. Mark Fuhrman.
Terry Jasper:
Gimme your hands. [grabs Bud's hands and cuffs him]
Bud McVie:
Yo! Get your goddamn hands off me man.
Policeman:
What's going on?
Terry Jasper:
He was harassing a fire fighter.
Bud McVie:
Bullshit. I was asking that guy for help.
Policeman:
This is stupid. Let him go.
Terry Jasper:
I'm taking him in.
Policeman:
All right he's all yours.
Bud McVie:
Shouldn't you be saving lives?
Terry Jasper:
Don't move!
 

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The Grudge 2 - Quotes

 Miyuki:
They say it is one of the most haunted houses in all of Japan.
Vanessa:
Yeah, and that anyone who enters gets the curse.
 

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The Last House on the Left - Quotes

 Krug:
So, do you guys live here permanently?
Emma Collingwood:
Oh, no. We actually live in the city.
Sadie:
How many houses do you have?
Emma Collingwood:
[uncomfortable] So what are you guys doing out here anyways? This is kind of in the middle of nowhere. Are you on a family vacation? Or...
Krug:
Well it's kind of embarrassing, actually. My dad used to take Francis and me to this lake every summer; do some fishing, go camping. Now that he's gone, those memories are all I really have left of him. Basically I'm just trying to do the same thing for Justin here.
Emma Collingwood:
I think that's important. It's nice making memories.
Krug:
[laughing] Don't know if I want to remember today.
Emma Collingwood:
You might. You never know. You're all safe. You're together. That's what counts.
Krug:
Amen, Emma. Amen.
 

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Erma Bombeck - Quotes

 All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.  

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A Dirty Shame - Quotes

 Caprice Stickles:
[explaining why she is going to have her breasts reduced] My back hurts. I'm getting sores. I wanna do housework without pain. I'd like to sleep on my stomach once in a while...
 

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Charlaine Harris - Quotes

 Did we have sex? 

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Allan Zaremberg - Quotes

 Ha, 

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Bette Midler - Quotes

 My idea of super woman is someone who scrubs her own floors.  

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J.K. Rowling - Quotes

 All those poor elves I haven't set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren't enough hats! 

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Safe Passage - Quotes

 Simon Singer:
[shouts] Mom! Mother! Why did you turn off my alarm? Why didn't you wake me up?
Mag Singer:
I was already up so...
Simon Singer:
My route, how did you know what houses to go to?
Mag Singer:
It was fine, I just needed something to do.
Simon Singer:
What about me? I needed something to do.
Mag Singer:
Go clean the garage that's something to do.
Simon Singer:
No! I don't want to do that.
 

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The Amityville Horror - Quotes

 George Lutz:
Houses don't kill people. People kill people.
 

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Jodi Picoult - Quotes

 Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's. 

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Gaston Bachelard - Quotes

 Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we come back to them in our daydreams. A psychoanalyst should, therefore, turn his attention to this simple localization of our memories. I should like to give the name of topoanalysis to this auxiliary of pyschoanalysis. Topoanalysis, then would be the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives. 

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Frank Herbert - Quotes

 What does a mirror look at? 

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Erma Bombeck - Quotes

 No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick. 

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Angela Carter - Quotes

 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  

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Charlaine Harris - Quotes

 There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers. 

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Jeanette Winterson - Quotes

 He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil.

Psychosis: out of touch with reality.

Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it. 

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Shirley Jackson - Quotes

 Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven. 

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Growing Out - Quotes

 Philip:
That's an old house you live in, Tom. Old houses do funny things to people.
 

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Erma Bombeck - Quotes

 Housework can kill you if done right. 

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Betty Friedan - Quotes

 No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.  

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Dr. Seuss - Quotes

 This mess is too big and too deep and to tall. We can't clean it up! We can't clean it up at all! 

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Wendy Wasserstein - Quotes

 Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say,  

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Betty Friedan - Quotes

 Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all? 

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Quentin Crisp - Quotes

 There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. 

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Andy Klatt - Quotes

 Let go, 

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Gaston Bachelard - Quotes

 I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. 

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Erma Bombeck - Quotes

 Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. 

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Horace Mann - Quotes

 A house without books is like a room without windows. 

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Erma Bombeck - Quotes

 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. 

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Phyllis Diller - Quotes

 I've buried a lot of my laundry in the back yard. 

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Holes - Quotes

 Zig-Zag:
What color was it's blood?
Stanley:
I-I don't know. I couldn't tell.
Zig-Zag:
I wish I'd a seen it. Bam!
Magnet:
If Mr. Sir didn't shoot it, Stanley, you'd be in the hole.
Zig-Zag:
Don't you know each one's got exactly 11 spots?
Squid:
Yeah, man, but if you ever get close enough to count 'em, you're dead.
Armpit:
Look, it's the lizards we're workin' for, man. We build their houses for 'em. I mean, yesterday I saw 10 of 'em in one hole.
Squid:
We ain't diggin' for no lizards
Armpit:
What we diggin' for then man?
X-Ray:
Like Mr. Sir said, we diggin' to build some character.
 

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John Barth - Quotes

 Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her...and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being. 

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Jeanette Winterson - Quotes

 The boat was vacuum-packed with Albanians, four generations to a family: great-grandmother, air-dried like a chilli pepper, deep red skin and a hot temper; grandmother, all sun-dried tomato, tough, chewy, skin split with the heat; getting the kids to rub olive oil into her arms; mother, moist as a purple fig, open everywhere - blouse, skirt, mouth, eyes, a wide-open woman, lips licking the salt spray flying from the open boat. Then there were the kids, aged four and six, a couple of squirs, zesty as lemons. 

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100 Scariest Movie Moments - Quotes

 Debbie Matenopoulos: [referring to Poltergeist] Get your kids, get your shit, get the fuck out of the house. That's all I've got to say.  

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John Steinbeck - Quotes

 Casy said,  

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P.G. Wodehouse - Quotes

 -'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?'

There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter 

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Phyllis Diller - Quotes

 Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing. 

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Alan Cook - Quotes

 The greenhouse effect I am knowing;

To protest right now I am going,

But oh my gee whiz,

I'm going that is,

If only it ever stops snowing. 

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Suzanne Selfors - Quotes

 Live. How many of us need to be reminded that living has nothing to do with trying to be as good as someone else, or trying to fit into some category, or filling in the blanks on some stupid checklist. That it has nothing to do with punishing yourself for past mistakes. 

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