Big Houses Quotes:

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

- William Morris

source: Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

topic: Life, Happiness, Beauty, Life Is Simple, Spring Cleaning

People are so obsessed with making their careers and having a big house; then you realize that kills your dreams. It even kills what makes your life because you get so busy inside.

- Stephanie Szostak

topic: Dream, Careers, People, Big Houses

People ask for this life, but they don't really understand what comes with it. People just see the outside and that looks good - big houses, cars, girls, but you never see how the person is feeling deep down inside. Me personally, being a man, I'm going to feel better displaying all of this and pouring my heart out on each record.

- Bow Wow

topic: Girl, Heart, Feel Better, Big Houses

Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead.

- Johnny Carson

topic: People, House, Democracy, Big Houses

Marriage never appealed to me, I have never lived with one person. Since I was 18, I've always preferred to live in a sort of community - A big house with my atelier and cats and friends, one with a man who was rather a lover and another who was rather a friend. And it has always worked

- Leonor Fini

topic: Cat, Men, House, Big Houses

In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

- Elizabeth Bowen

source: Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

topic: Religious, House, Feelings, Big Houses

The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.

- Richard Dreyfuss

topic: Jobs, Struggle, Careers, Big Houses

I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I had permanently moved to San Francisco and rented a big house, joined the company dole, become national-affairs editor for some upstart magazine—that was the plan around 1967. But that would have meant going to work on a regular basis, like nine to five, with an office—I had to pull out.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.149, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Thinking, Editors, San Francisco, Big Houses, Upstart

Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms which are to do with prayer. The mystical strain is the strain whereby the whole day can be given over to prayer through what we call lectio divina, prayerful reading of Scripture, through practice of meditation of when one uses the imagination and the intellect with respect to images, and then finally, and most difficult of all, contemplation, where one empties the mind of all images and all ideas, all concepts, in order to be completely attentive to God.

- Kevin Hart

topic: Prayer, Reading, Order, Prayerful, Big Houses

Martha Stewart is now under house arrest. So she'll go to her $40 million 153-acre estate. So she's going from the big house to an even bigger house.

- Jay Leno

topic: House, Acres, Bigs, Big Houses, House Arrest

I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don't like too much security. There's no freedom. I'm a person, not some precious diamond that needs guarding every second.

- Julian Lennon

topic: House, Needs, London, Big Houses

People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.

- Paul McCartney

topic: Real, Moving, Writing, Real Street, Big Houses

No, I'm putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big house, so my daughter can have a garden.

- Ewan McGregor

topic: Daughter, Mother, Moving, Big Houses

So often, we blame other people when, really, the problem is right down in here. I'm not happy. I don't know what's wrong. If I just had another job, I could be happy. If I just get married, I would be happy. Well if I just wasn't married, I would be happy. Well, if I just had some kids, I'll be happy. I'll be happy when these kids finally grow up and get out of here. If I had a bigger house, I would be happy. Well, I got a big house. Now if I just had a maid to clean, I'd be happy. Well, now if I just had a maid I could get along with better, I'd be happy.

- Joyce Meyer

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Happiness, Jobs, Growing Up, Big Houses

When people are breaking the law, they don’t get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation to the big house... This is just an anathema to everything that the civil rights movement was truly all about and what it accomplished.

- Mike Huckabee

source: "Huckabee: Michael Brown acted like a 'thug'" By Alexandra Jaffe, www.cnn.com. December 3, 2014.

topic: Rights, Law, White, Anathema, Big Houses

I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.

- Alana Stewart

source: "Alana Stewart: Actress And Former Model Talks Spirituality And Staying Vibrant At 67". Interview with Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.

topic: People, House, Looks, Big Houses

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.

- Paul Nurse

topic: Mother, Father, Years, County, Chauffeurs

Aloha Earth, this is Elvis calling. You'll find me in the big house now.

- John Wesley Harding

source: Song: Elvis Has Just Left the Building

topic: House, Calling, Earth, Big Houses, Aloha

I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids.

- Jennifer Ellison

source: "Exclusive: My lover by Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. July 5, 2005.

topic: Kids, House, Lovely, Big Houses

The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

topic: People, House, Association, Socializing, Side Effects

When I look out [the window] at the big houses on either side of the road, it's obvious we've entered the rich side of town. Poor people don't post signs like NO TRESPASSING, PRIVATE DRIVE, PRIVATE PROPERTY, MONITORED BY CAMERA SURVEILLANCE. I should know because I've been poor my entire life, and the only person I know who ever posted a sign like these is my friend...and he actually stole the sign off a rich guy's yard.

- Simone Elkeles

topic: People, House, Guy, Trespassing, Big Houses

A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor”, p.16, Random House

topic: Outside World, Big Houses

I just always knew I was going to be a star. I was always going to be rich so I could buy things for Mommy and Daddy, so that I could buy them a big house and we could have things.

- Dolly Parton

source: "New Again: Dolly Parton". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 18, 2012.

topic: Stars, Daddy, House, Mommy And Daddy, Big Houses

I think setting goals is critical; having deadlines for ourselves- how much by when? Too many people have these big dreams where they want to have a big house on the ocean. But until we say what ocean, how big, what day, our conscience doesn't know what to do with that information. A positive expectancy, a positive attitude, a belief that your dream is possible is also helpful.

- Jack Canfield

topic: Dream, Attitude, Ocean, Expectancy, Big Houses

Through a lot of conversations with the Minister [Louis Farrakhan] you've got to know when to say something. But if you are forever going to be afraid to say anything, then you become irrelevant - as a force. I mean, so the God-given gift that you got, you're not a relevant player in the game - you're just a dude whose got money, got a big house and some cars.

- Steve Harvey

source: Source: www.finalcall.com

topic: Mean, Player, Games, Big Houses

We had everything. We were young kids. We were driving cars our parents couldn't afford, living in big houses. For me to sit here and say, "Oh my God, I didn't enjoy any of it" - no, I did. Of course I did.

- Michel'le

topic: Kids, Car, Parent, Driving Cars, Big Houses

She really is a completely different First Lady. Eleanor Roosevelt was not going to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And I think he's a very different President. He does not want his wife to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And they really are partners. They're partners in a big house where there are two separate courts, and they both know they have two separate courts. But these are courts that are allied in purpose, united in vision.

- Blanche Wiesen Cook

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Thinking, Two, White, Big Houses

You want the people to know, but you don't really want the things behind it. I have everything I ever wanted. I never wanted a big house. I never wanted a Ferrari. I mean, as I proceeded with the music, I started liking Ferraris...

- Fetty Wap

source: Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

topic: Mean, People, House, Big Houses

I kind of grew up in a commune, but it wasn't a hippie commune necessarily, but it was a big house with a lot of families, we all lived together and it was the 70s, whatever that means.

- Gabriel Mann

topic: Hippie, Mean, House, Big Houses

What we considered to be so much part of our everyday fashion vocabulary today, where we see all these designers restarting with these big houses, was just beginning then [in the 90th].

- Roopal Patel

topic: Fashion, Vocabulary, House, Big Houses

I'm living the dream. I've got a big tour bus, an incredible band, a big house, and a family that are all taken care of through my music. I've got a beautiful wife and three beautiful kids.

- Aaron Watson

topic: Beautiful, Dream, Taken, Beautiful Wife, Big Houses

Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over - unless we find new ways of producing energy.

- Barack Obama

source: Barack Obama's remarks at Young African Leaders Initiative Town Hall at the White House in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 29, 2013.

topic: Thinking, Air, Car, Air Conditioning, Big Houses

The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little house or a great big one. Rarely do you find a great big house that's used in a good way. So I prefer smaller spaces that are full of books, full of things that people are doing.

- Martha Stewart

source: "Martha Stewart is editing your life (that includes you, Bill Gates)". Interview with Beatriz Colomina and Rem Koolhaas, www.wired.com. June 1, 2003.

topic: Book, Home, Space, Good Way, Big Houses

A high income job, a big house, nice cars, and lavish vacations don't mean you are rich, in fact it could mean exactly opposite

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Jobs, Nice, Mean, Big Houses, Nice Cars

It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs.

- Frank Grillo

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Basketball, Jobs, Couple, Big Houses

You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread.

- Rob Bell

topic: Nice, Vacation, Car, Big Houses, Nice Cars

I think what you see a lot of in American religion, even in areas of American Christianity that don't go all the way with Osteen to the idea that God wants you to have this big house and so on, the nature of American religion right now, the fact that it is so non-denominational and post-denominational, the most successful churches have to be run more like businesses than ever before. I think that just exposes Christians to a constant temptation to think about the ministry more as a business than they sometimes should.

- Ross Douthat

source: Source: www.christianpost.com

topic: Christian, Running, Successful, Big Houses

I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, 'Jesus, I Heard You Had a Big House' and I remember people standing up at the end and me thinking, 'Oh, I think I'm going to like this.' That's how it all began. Sounds funny to say you got your start in church, but I did.

- Kristin Chenoweth

topic: Song, Jesus, Thinking, Big Houses

I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

- Victoria Beckham

topic: Dragons, People, House, Moats, Big Houses

And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.

- Vincent Cassel

topic: Stars, Nice, Class, Big Houses, Nice Clothes

My show 'The Big House' was picked up; they flew me to New York. I'm about to step on stage to announce 's 'The Big House.' And a hand grabs my shoulder, 'Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.' It's a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can't.

- Kevin Hart

source: "One on one", lafocusnewspaper.com. March 3, 2014.

topic: New York, Hands, House, Big Houses

I realised life is so short and precious, you should do things that make you feel inspired, that push you and teach you something. I'd rather not have a big house, a huge closet of clothes, diamonds and a private plane, and instead a body of work that I'm proud of.

- Gwyneth Paltrow

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Clothes, House, Body, Big Houses

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

- O. J. Simpson

topic: Kids, Ghetto, Car, Big Houses

Miss Celia stares down into the pot like she's looking for her future. "Are you happy, Minny?" "Why you ask me funny questions like that?" "But are you?" "Course I's happy. You happy too. Big house, big yard, husband looking after you." I frown at Miss Celia and I make sure she can see it. Because ain't that white people for you, wondering if they are happy ENOUGH.

- Kathryn Stockett

topic: Husband, White, People, Celia, Funny Question

Chiron, I don't think the attic is the proper place for our new Oracle, do you?" "No, indeed." Chiron looked a lot better now that Apollo had worked some medical magic on him. "Rachel may use a guest room in the Big House for now, until we give the matter more thought." "I'm thinking a cave in the hills," Apollo mused. "With torches and a big purple curtain over the entrance . . . really mysterious. But inside, a totally decked-out pad with a game room and one of those home theater systems.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Home, Thinking, Games, Rachel Elizabeth Dare, Big Houses

You're a stalker with hooves." "I am not! I followed her to the Big House and hid in a bush and watched the whole thing.

- Rick Riordan

source: Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

topic: House, Bigs, Grover, Big Houses, Grover Underwood

Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.

- Maureen Johnson

topic: Successful, Careers, Evil, Successful Career, Big Houses

If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.

- will.i.am

topic: Nice, Home, House, Motels, Big Houses

I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.

- Robert Smith

topic: Nice, House, Different, Dining Rooms, Big Houses