Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves – Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there. – Jonathan Raban
In my house, I’m not allowed to shout at anybody. It’s very strict. It’s a very Christian home. – Joel Courtney
Barbies were banned at our house, along with television other than PBS. As a kid, I found this horribly embarrassing. – Leila Janah
I read recently of the advent of a completely wireless house. Having just moved house and being drowned in billions of cords and cables, that sounds like a great thing to have. – Julian Ovenden
I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour! – Lauren Hutton
I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually. – Lee Pace
I grew up around a lot of Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam books. My parents in Kabul had all the volumes around the house. – Khaled Hosseini
It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself. – J. Milton Hayes
I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven’t been that hip since. – Leo Kottke
The biographer who writes the life of his subject’s self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. – Leon Edel
If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past. – John Hope Franklin