Quotes of: White-house Keyword

The open house makes a good man of the thief.

Spanish

If you see a frog squatting on his house, don't ask him for a chair.

Togolese

If the lady of the house breaks something it is an unfortunate accident; if the servant does, then it is a terrible disaster.

Turkish

Mix with your neighbors, and you learn what's doing in your own house.

Yiddish

We worked like dogs, we ate like hogs, and we slept like logs.

Fix 'em Up, Rent 'em Out: How to Start Your Own House Fix-up & Rental Business in Your Spare Time; or, Investing in Real Estate and Creating Wealth with Fixer-Upper Houses

It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, i...

Key of Knowledge

We have two minds. One thinks, the other knows. The mind that knows goes back many lifetimes. This is the mind of the one heart, of all things: the trees, the plants, the clouds, the rivers, the mountains. The more time you spend with this mind, the ...

Na Bolom: House of the Jaguar

When I walked into the house, I went in search of one of my dad's bottles. Not that they were that hard to find. He hid bottles all over the house. I knew where they all were. That was one of my hobbies, finding where my dad hid his bottles. It was m...

Last Night I Sang to the Monster

Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we c...

Gaston Bachelard

[Riggs and Murtaugh pull up outside Dixie's house to check out a theory] Roger Murtaugh: Like I said, thin. Martin Riggs: Probably nothing. [the house explodes, knocking them both to the ground. Murtaugh throws himself on Riggs] Martin Riggs: What ar...

Lethal Weapon

I think I miss Ben,” she told Lauren one night. “No, you don’t,” Lauren said. “But sometimes, I really think I do.” Lauren sighed. “Isabella, you miss the essence of a boy. That’s all.

Girls in White Dresses

The men in the nearby village fear us, thinking we are witches. Women who live without men—especially old women who grow herbs, heal the sick, and befriend wild animals—are always suspect.

Black Swan, White Raven

People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned -- it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned -- and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'whi...

Malcolm X

In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in thei...

Sherman Alexie

I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was some of the most beautiful black and white comic art ever published. The stories are good, too, though early '70s comics based on Conan is a festival of sexi...

Ted Naifeh

Sometimes I'm a black. Not everyone realizes blackness has to be conferred upon you again and again. It's like getting your nails done. Or being pantsed. People assume I'm cool.

How to Seduce a White Boy in Ten Easy Steps

There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.

Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16

I wore a long white dress shirt and no pants, so it looked like a white dress. I felt like a bride in love. Well, at least until my boss fired me.

My love can only occupy one person at a time

I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.

The Little White Horse

I speculate over some of the Anglo nomenclature of birds: Wilson's snipe, Forster's tern . . . : What natural images do these names conjure up in our minds? What integrity do we give back to the birds with our labels.

Pieces of White Shell