Quotes with prison-house

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  • Aaron Spelling Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • A. E. Housman Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?
    And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists?
    And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air?
    Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
    Additional Poems (1937) No. 18, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Beck Oh, the tragedy and the anguish. You just gotta Rage Against the Appliance, man. The toast is burning and you just gotta rip it out and free it before it fills the house with smoke. Rage Against the Toaster.
    Spin magazine, July 1994
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Carolina Nairne Oh, we 're a' noddin', nid, nid, noddin';
    Oh, we 're a' noddin' at our house at hame.
    Were a Noddin
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  • Peter Ustinov Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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  • Billy Connolly Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Robert Frost One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Edward Dahlberg One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Forest Witcraft One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.
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  • Mark Twain One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carla Hall One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.
    Carla Hall
    American chef and television personality (1964 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bobby Flay One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bee Wilson One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Ayatollah Khomeini One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Oscar Wilde Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Robert Southey Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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