Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
At 16, I got housing benefit, and I had my own flat in an old woman's house. I was the only 16-year-old I knew living alone.
In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.
We didn't have locks in the early 1940s because nobody got into anybody's house, and nobody did anything wrong.
As Ronald Reagan demonstrated, it is still possible to progress if not from a log cabin at least from obscurity to the White House. It is also rare.
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
I'd probably sit around the house and get lonesome if I didn't have something to do.
I will always love 'Full House.' It's become so iconic. It was such a long-running, successful show with people that I really love.
Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.
I am not going to the House of Lords. Never. That's not who I am. That's not where I am.
I think of myself as the queen of lounging. No lounge queen is complete without lounge clothes and house wigs.
I have a house, with two big plasma-screen TVs, two dogs, a grill, chessboard. I like to keep it low-key: invite friends over, order some Papa John's pizzas and Coors Light, play poker and ping-pong and chill. I'm pretty private.
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.
I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.
A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way.
Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.
What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.
I'm definitely low maintenance, but I do have a lot of massages, and I have this girl who comes to my house to do my nails. My friends will come over ,and we'll all get our nails done or have waxes.
