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  • A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.

    People   House   World  
    Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor”, p.16, Random House
  • One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.

    "Aubrey O’Day: ‘Last night I was stolen by a hawk’". PopWrap interview, pagesix.com. October 22, 2009.
  • I think setting goals is critical; having deadlines for ourselves- how much by when? Too many people have these big dreams where they want to have a big house on the ocean. But until we say what ocean, how big, what day, our conscience doesn't know what to do with that information. A positive expectancy, a positive attitude, a belief that your dream is possible is also helpful.

    Dream   Attitude   Ocean  
  • It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

    Boys   Self   House  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.3104, e-artnow
  • I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.

  • Miss Celia stares down into the pot like she's looking for her future. "Are you happy, Minny?" "Why you ask me funny questions like that?" "But are you?" "Course I's happy. You happy too. Big house, big yard, husband looking after you." I frown at Miss Celia and I make sure she can see it. Because ain't that white people for you, wondering if they are happy ENOUGH.

    Husband   White   People  
    Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.49, Penguin
  • I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

    Sports   Children   Kids  
    O. J. Simpson, Pete Axthelm (1970). “O. J.: the education of a rich rookie”
  • We had everything. We were young kids. We were driving cars our parents couldn't afford, living in big houses. For me to sit here and say, "Oh my God, I didn't enjoy any of it" - no, I did. Of course I did.

    Kids   Car   Parent  
    Source: www.elle.com
  • If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.

    Nice   Home   House  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.

    Jobs   Struggle   Careers  
  • Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

    Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books
  • Chiron, I don't think the attic is the proper place for our new Oracle, do you?" "No, indeed." Chiron looked a lot better now that Apollo had worked some medical magic on him. "Rachel may use a guest room in the Big House for now, until we give the matter more thought." "I'm thinking a cave in the hills," Apollo mused. "With torches and a big purple curtain over the entrance . . . really mysterious. But inside, a totally decked-out pad with a game room and one of those home theater systems.

    Home   Thinking   Games  
  • The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little house or a great big one. Rarely do you find a great big house that's used in a good way. So I prefer smaller spaces that are full of books, full of things that people are doing.

    Book   Home   Space  
    "Martha Stewart is editing your life (that includes you, Bill Gates)". Interview with Beatriz Colomina and Rem Koolhaas, www.wired.com. June 1, 2003.
  • I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, 'Jesus, I Heard You Had a Big House' and I remember people standing up at the end and me thinking, 'Oh, I think I'm going to like this.' That's how it all began. Sounds funny to say you got your start in church, but I did.

    Song   Jesus   Thinking  
  • I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids.

    Kids   House   Lovely  
    "Exclusive: My lover by Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. July 5, 2005.
  • Marriage never appealed to me, I have never lived with one person. Since I was 18, I've always preferred to live in a sort of community - A big house with my atelier and cats and friends, one with a man who was rather a lover and another who was rather a friend. And it has always worked

    Cat   Men   House  
  • People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.

    Real   Moving   Writing  
  • Yeah. You've seen The Sun today; I've got myself a big house, settled down. Apart from the odd night out with the New Fathers' Club, I'm a family man now.

    Father   Night   Men  
  • I realised life is so short and precious, you should do things that make you feel inspired, that push you and teach you something. I'd rather not have a big house, a huge closet of clothes, diamonds and a private plane, and instead a body of work that I'm proud of.

    Clothes   House   Body  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.

    Stars   Nice   Class  
    "France's most wanted". Interview with Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2009.
  • Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead.

  • I just always knew I was going to be a star. I was always going to be rich so I could buy things for Mommy and Daddy, so that I could buy them a big house and we could have things.

    Stars   Daddy   House  
    "New Again: Dolly Parton". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 18, 2012.
  • No, I'm putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big house, so my daughter can have a garden.

  • My show 'The Big House' was picked up; they flew me to New York. I'm about to step on stage to announce 's 'The Big House.' And a hand grabs my shoulder, 'Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.' It's a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can't.

    New York   Hands   House  
    "One on one", lafocusnewspaper.com. March 3, 2014.
  • I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I had permanently moved to San Francisco and rented a big house, joined the company dole, become national-affairs editor for some upstart magazine—that was the plan around 1967. But that would have meant going to work on a regular basis, like nine to five, with an office—I had to pull out.

    Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.149, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

    Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr
  • People are so obsessed with making their careers and having a big house; then you realize that kills your dreams. It even kills what makes your life because you get so busy inside.

    Dream   Careers   People  
  • A Not So Big House feels more spacious than many of its oversized neighbors because it is space with substance, all of it in use every day.

    Space   House   Substance  
    Sarah Susanka, Grey Crawford (2002). “Creating the Not So Big House: Insights and Ideas for the New American Home”, p.9, Taunton Press
  • I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

    Soccer   Football   Stars  
  • I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.

    Nice   House   Different  
    "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I don't worry about my epitaph' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Susan Compo, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2012.
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