Quotes with coffee-house

Quotes 241 till 260 of 332.

  • Berton Braley The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.
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  • Walter Bagehot The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Al Sharpton The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud The ego is not master in its own house.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Billy Preston The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.
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  • Bill Flores The good thing about Cruz is we know who he is today, and we'll know exactly who he'll be in the White House.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bill McCollum The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.
    Bill McCollum
    American lawyer and politician (1944 - )
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  • Marguerite Duras The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Adolf Loos The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • A. E. Housman The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
    Introductory Lecture, October 3, 1892, London.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Franklin Field The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.
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  • Tony Benn The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
    Tony Benn
    British Labor politician (1925 - 2014)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Kahlil Gibran The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Sir Arthur Helps The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Frank Zappa The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie - it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Audre Lorde The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Barbara Corcoran The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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