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  • Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers. -- Stephen Kinzer
  • I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House. -- Karen Hughes
  • I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house. -- Vince Flynn
  • The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. -- Adolf Loos
  • Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. -- Simon Callow
  • I don't really work out. I eat a lot of sweets. I have chocolate all over my house. -- Joyce Giraud
  • My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work. -- Sarah Waters
  • I love Halloween! I love it so much that I used to work at a haunted house every year. -- Daniella Monet
  • I'm a big fan of Tiesto, and Swedish House Mafia are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them. -- Joe Jonas
  • The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. -- Adolf Loos
  • I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf. -- Nick Harkaway
  • The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not. -- Adolf Loos
  • I just go wherever work brings me. I share a house with friends in L.A., and I share a house with friends in Montreal when I'm there. -- Francois Arnaud
  • In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us. -- Margaret Heffernan
  • I was Speaker of the House in Florida, first Republican speaker in 120 years. And I totally dismantled the way this House worked and turned it around to what I believe is right. -- Daniel Webster
  • I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job. -- John Major
  • My desk is an antique with bookshelves built into the side. I've turned the drawer over to hold a keyboard. We live in a 100-year-old house, and I work in an apartment above the carriage house. -- Jess Walter
  • The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort. -- Adolf Loos
  • As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world. -- Nathan Meyer Rothschild
  • I work in the house next to where I live. We bought a smaller house that I use as my office and the place where my two employees work... We've got tens of thousands of letters from kids stored all over the house in places you would usually put dishes and other things like that. -- Jeff Kinney
  • I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work. -- Frank Stella
  • Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house. -- Susan Glaspell
  • If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House? -- Charles Krauthammer
  • The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work. -- Mark Twain
  • WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House! -- Tom Peters
  • A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct. -- Mavis Gallant
  • Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it. -- Arthur Miller
  • I used to work at The International House of Pancakes. It was a dream, and I made it happen. -- Paula Poundstone
  • I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee. -- Bryan Cogman
  • You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job. -- Pascal Bruckner
  • My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home. -- J. C. Watts
  • 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
  • Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary. -- Donald Rumsfeld
  • A studio allows you to indulge your untidiness and your penchant for toys and curiosities that really wouldn't work in a grown-up house. -- Jamie Cullum
  • According to a survey in this week's Time magazine, 85% of Americans think global warming is happening. The other 15% work for the White House. -- Jay Leno
  • I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to. -- Asia Argento
  • I get around nature. I have a vegetable garden, and I enjoy being outside. I do work quite a bit around the house. -- Patty Loveless
  • If something doesn't work in my house - TV, phone, stereo, anything - I just call my dad, and he knows the answer. -- Kimberley Nixon
  • With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half. -- Christian Lacroix
  • We have to change this idea that women are only supposed to work in the house... Women should go out and be what they want -- Malala Yousafzai
  • After hearing from my colleagues, I have decided to run for Speaker of the House. Let's work together to make a difference for our country. -- Kevin McCarthy
  • I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work. -- Warren Cuccurullo
  • Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar. -- Steve Earle
  • What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male? -- Samuel Johnson
  • I've been very luckily - I bought a house, I work, my life's been very blessed. I thought it would be funny to exaggerate the non-working side. -- Simon Rex
  • Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material. -- Rigoberto Gonzalez
  • You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house. -- Malcolm X
  • My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work. -- Dani Shapiro
  • Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you. -- Malaika Arora Khan
  • The only time I've ever taken out a loan is for the building work I had done at our house and I did that by extending the mortgage. -- Andrea McLean
  • We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. -- George William Russell
  • I don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that. -- Toni Morrison
  • I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children. -- David Nicholls
  • Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food? -- Joel Salatin
  • I'm making the assumption that after Mrs. Obama leaves the White House that she will continue all of her work toward improving education in this nation and childhood health. -- Tim Gunn
  • Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work. -- George H. W. Bush
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