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My dream is to have a beautiful old house in Monaco. -- Eva Herzigova
I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards. -- Martha Stewart
We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign. -- Loretta Lynn
My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes. -- Jamie Wyeth
I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel. -- Lorene Scafaria
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house. -- Barbara Corcoran
My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things. -- Ted Allen
I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer. -- Kent McCord
I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, because it was just an old house that we fixed up, and I love the old house. -- Tammy Faye Bakker
I grew up in Kolkata in a traditional family. We had friends who lived in mansions just like the one in 'Oleander Girl.' Growing up, I was fascinated by the old house and the old Bengal lifestyle. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you. -- Paul Lynde
I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room. -- Laura Esquivel
My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest. -- Sebastian Junger
My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me. -- Kim Edwards
I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been. -- Margaret Mahy
I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But that's only because people only see that side of me when I'm at work, in front of the camera. So they don't see Miranda at home; they don't see behind the scenes. They see the glamour of it all but they don't see Miranda standing barefoot in a dirty old house. -- Miranda Kerr
An old friend is a new house. -- George Herbert
An old man in a house is a good sign. -- Benjamin Franklin
[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House -- Ronald Reagan
The most used appliance in our house is my 10-year-old son Leon's Xbox. -- Paul Reiser
A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield. -- Masaoka Shiki
When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary. -- Honore de Balzac
A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted. -- Hope Mirrlees
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Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! -- George Bailey
The moment you let your courage leave you, you turn to an abandoned old house! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house. -- Soulja Boy
Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse. -- Edward Lear
My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow. -- Bill Cosby
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card. -- J. Michael Straczynski
I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse! -- Beatrix Potter
I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film. -- Anil Kapoor
We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways. -- Edward Coke
As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles. -- Ernest Cline
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away. -- Emily Dickinson
It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements -- William Carlos Williams
Alex O'Loughlin is an old friend. Actually, when he first came to L.A., he stayed at my house. -- Martin Henderson
For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent. -- Samuel Foote
An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. -- Ludwig Bemelmans
I have been obsessed with 'Full House' since I was five years old. I just can't stop watching the reruns! -- Cassie Scerbo
My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house. -- Alden Ehrenreich
In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop. -- Robert Benchley
Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house. -- Steven Gaines
I send thank you notes, not emails, even if I'm staying at a friend's house or something. I'm very old school. -- Margot Robbie
The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy. -- Jennifer Ehle
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk. -- Janet Fitch
Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs. -- Nicolas Roeg
There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house. -- Roseanne Barr
I have radios everywhere around the house, very old battered ones that I've had for years and years. None of them are digital. -- Tim Rice
Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years. -- Jonathan Carroll
I've been told I'm an old soul, but I'm only 25. I have the old with the new in me, and my house reflects that. -- Hillary Scott
But never in his saddest dreams had he thought he'd spend his last years dusting this enormous old house for no one at all." -- Marion Dane Bauer
In my fifth year in Beijing, I moved into a one-story brick house beside the Confucius Temple, a seven-hundred-year-old shrine to China's most important philosopher. -- Evan Osnos
Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks. -- Robert Southey
I have a very tiny house in Burbank. I drive an 8-year-old car. I'm gonna drive it into the ground. I enjoy what I enjoy. -- Patton Oswalt
In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real. -- Gustavo Dudamel
I've been a fan of video games since the old school, I even have a lot of the old school arcade games at my house. -- Ray Lewis
We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways. -- Edward Coke
I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House. -- Louise Mensch
Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the President. -- Ann Coulter
I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised. -- Cindy Sherman
Found a bunch of old shower caps in my house. Was gonna throw them out but realized they make excellent porta potties for long road trips. -- Bob Saget
In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers. -- Louis Simpson
My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire. -- David Copperfield
Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers. -- Max Muller
Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested. -- Robert T. Bakker
The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest. -- Robin Sharma
He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well. -- Boris Johnson
Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch. -- John le Carre
There's nothing more fun than putting on an old costume and jewelry and being in a house that's decorated from the '20s or '30s or whatever. -- Mariana Klaveno
It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in. -- Susanna Clarke
The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there. -- Julius Wellhausen
When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time. -- Joseph Goebbels
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I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
But my heart is an old house(the kind my mothergrew up in)hell to heat and cooland faulty in the wiringand though it's nice to look atI have no businessinviting lovers in." -- Clementine von Radics
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . . -- Henry James

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