The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.
By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.
Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.
For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.
I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars.
Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.
I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.
I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.
In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.
The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.
In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.
Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
I'm playing second fiddle to Justin Bieber - Bieber Fever is sweeping our house, and my girls have made it clear I'm no longer their favourite man.
People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.
We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.
Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories.
I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.
