Richard House Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Richard House
Telling stories to make himself into something that he isn't. We all do it. We all tell stories to make ourselves look better. — Richard House
More often than not it's the mascara and lipstick combination that tips the balance. These military wives could do with some lessons. Seriously. Why would you leave the house looking like a monkey had a party on your face? — Richard House
You think those cats care? You think other animals watch each other go at it and it does something for them?"
"Like cat-porn. — Richard House
What you have to understand, he says, is the mentality of the Iraqi versus the mentality of the average Westerner. — Richard House
Because what matters, what counts, isn't how well you are loved, but how able you are to give love. — Richard House
So what about the cats?"
"What about them?"
"The cats he killed. He killed all those cats. Dumped them in the tank."
"So he didn't like cats."
"With a slingshot."
"They were strays. Nobody missed them."
"But you don't kill cats. That's not normal."
Rino shrugged. "Cats are cats. — Richard House
When I started writing the third book, 'The Kill,' the intention was just to write a thriller, a crime novel for myself, really, in which there would be no body, no solution - where you would look at an event from different people's perspectives. — Richard House
When I first started writing, I wrote a book called 'Bruiser,' and it was pretty much set in Chicago. — Richard House
She read the last chapter of her book because she didn't want to start something that would end badly. — Richard House
This man threatened the volunteer then returned twenty minutes later to beat him up. At a charity bonfire. In Wilford. It's not the Middle East," she said, "it's Wilford, Nottingham. I don't want to be among these people. They complain about a charity bonfire, and right on their doorstep there are children as young as eleven selling drugs along the river. — Richard House
It wasn't my intention ever to leave Chicago, that's for sure. — Richard House
The older they became the less time they spent together, and the less time they spent together the less dissatisfaction they felt toward each other. — Richard House
He calls these projects gophers, as in, go-for-the-money (don't-deliver-the-project). — Richard House
...WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY
...that counts?
...that carries meaning?
...that made the day worthwhile?
...what will you do tomorrow? — Richard House
Everything in English sounded funny. — Richard House
Correggio, Caravaggio, Titian, Tintoretto. In them she saw distance and cruelty. Bodies pierced, flayed, crucified. A parade of morbid flesh. — Richard House
What is awful is that there were always reasons to do one thing and not another, but these reasons disappear. You don't remember them. They just go, and you're left with what you did or didn't do, and this idea that you didn't do enough. The truth isn't always so easy. You can't think yourself back into that place that made everything how it was. — Richard House
Cats aren't as friendly as they appear: fur, teeth, instinct, selfishness and cunning. Essentially they're just big rats. — Richard House
The secret to disappearing is to stay where you are. — Richard House
A tongue in a bag. Teeth. A room drenched in blood. — Richard House
They weren't a couple. They were two people making do. — Richard House
You are the stories you tell, whatever their basis in fact or experience. It's who you are. — Richard House
A human has seven litres of blood. This they had taught him in the army. Seven litres, which, with an arterial cut will vent a fountain two or three metres, and take three to four minutes to bleed out. — Richard House
They believed the devil would rise from here," she said. "I'm serious. They thought he would come up through the cracks in the ground, that there would be an earthquake and he would rise. Dust. Fire. The end of the world. They calculated the day and built churches to protect themselves. — Richard House
So why are you here?" Watts asked Santo.
"Because, Paul, is it Paul? I'm here to put the f in freedom. — Richard House
It is doubtful that you could find a full-blooded Cossack who would voluntarily take part in any such activity, as the girl, so to speak. The receiver. I cannot think of one example myself, not one case which involves a full-blooded Cossack. Historically, this is a weakness of the Greeks, the Italians, and of course your own people, who are particularly fond of this vice. — Richard House
And then ... perhaps someone will write a book about making a film about a story that is taken from this book which is taken from a real-life story that was copied from a story in a book. You know? — Richard House
Pakosta shrugged. "The problem is how they drive. People fall asleep. Lose the road. They won't slow down or stop. I'm sick of picking dogs out of fenders. — Richard House
The worst thing you can do to someone, the very worst thing, is to keep them hoping. — Richard House
If you look hard enough at any system, at some point it is going to reveal its patterns, habits, and operations. — Richard House
At some point the body offers only disappointment. — Richard House