Quote of the Day

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

Bram Stoker

The house is sanctified, in whole or part, by a cosmological symbolism or ritual.

Mircea Eliade

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Alfred Hitchcock

• Change

The "axis mundi", seen in the sky in the form of the Milky Way, appears in the ceremonial house in the form of a sacred pole.

Mircea Eliade

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

Christopher Columbus

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

Miguel de Unamuno

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Aristotle

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Ovid

• Power

Habits change into character.

Ovid

• Change

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Abraham Lincoln

Habit is a great deadener.

Samuel Beckett

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

Errol Flynn

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel.

John Galliano

I have like fifteen televisions in my house.

Jimmy Kimmel

Habit is the nursery of errors.

Victor Hugo

Character is long-standing habit.

Plutarch

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Hippocrates

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

Raquel Welch

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Marlene Dietrich