| "There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again." »Rogers Turrentine |
| "Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories." »Arthur C. Clarke |
| "If this universe is the house of God, then I must say it is quite a dark house despite several hundred billion suns!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada." »Pierre Elliott Trudeau |
| "He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand." »Constance Naden |
| "There should be a detective show called 'Johnny Monkey,' because every week you could have a guy say 'I ain't gonna get caught by no MONKEY,' but then he would, and I don't think I'd ever get tired of that." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title --from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson" »Mark Twain |
| "If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand." »Mark |
| "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan." »Eliel Saarinen |
| "Carter Please tell me you speak English. I'm detective Carter. Do you speaka any English Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth" »Rush Hour |
| "Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world." »Chinese Proverb |
| "Home is where the house is." »Child Age 6 |
| "Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house." »Jewish Proverb |
| "If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it." »Danish proverb |
| "The road to a friend's house is never long." »Danish proverb |
| "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." »George |
| "I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house." »Lawrence Peter Berra |
| "A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest." »William Feather |
| "A good laugh is sunshine in a house." »William Makepeace Thackeray |
| "The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "He hath eaten me out of house and home." »William Shakespeare |
| "What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on" »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still." »Danish proverb |
| "There will be no whitewash in the White house. (On Watergate investigation)" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "The White house is the finest prison in the world." »Harry S Truman |
| "He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones." »English Proverb |
| "Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery." »Prince Otto |
| "If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it." »Thomas Jefferson |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
