Mansion Quotations

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.

I got invited to the Playboy Mansion with the Lonely Island guys after their first season on 'SNL,' and I sat in the corner drinking coffee and talking to Akiva Schaffer about what aspect ratio he was going to shoot 'Hot Rod' in. Like, that's what we talk about.

I once had money to burn. I'd fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.

I didn't grow up in a small New England town like the one in 'The Sundial.' I was raised in an apartment building in Queens, not in a sprawling, slightly sinister mansion like the one where the Halloran family resides.

Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb of corporate elites.

Morris Kite was the chairman. I remember the first meeting of that committee, out in an abandoned Victorian mansion that was the first location of the Gay Community Services Center in Los Angeles, which Morris helped to found.

My Lord and Master has summoned me, His minstrel, to the True Mansion of His Presence. He has dressed me in the robes of His True Praise and Glory.

She could not run the mansion from Washington, D.C.,

Mansion will invest money in the English Premier League as we believe it will be a powerful tool to continue our successful international growth. We aim to reach agreement with a club in the coming months and look forward to working closely with a team that is passionate about building our brand around the world in an open partnership.

It doesn't change here. Even the mansion builders, those people come over here for chicken and $1 beer, too.

When I first came into money, I bought six or seven homes. One weekend I went to Miami and bought an apartment and a mansion several blocks from each other, which was not that bright!

We're talking about an awful lot of money here to get the mansion in shape. It is up to you to decide what you want to do.

Each country is but a room in the mansion of GOD.

Besides buying a mansion or something, everything I wanted I always got. I'm just ready to invest it and save it. Otherwise, life can hit you, but you can't go back to working at Home Depot. That's why I always just be stacking.

The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building -- we're privileged to have a chance to live there, ... it certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.

The subject never came up, ... Maybe I thought talking about it would jinx the campaign. We were so busy. We had just moved into a wonderful house. Moving to the mansion didn't occur to us.

The Stanford Mansion is certainly the jewel of Sacramento, ... and we're adding it to the crown jewels of the state's parks system, along with Hearst Castle, Big Basin, the Humboldt redwoods and Point Lobo.

We've had snow, hard snow, blowing all night, ... I'm looking out the window from here at the governor's mansion ... It's getting deeper every hour ... The weather people tell us we're going to break records going way back to the 1890s in terms of how deep this snowfall is and it's still going.

I've always said that this campaign is running on the coin of the spirit. I've also said a journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance. This spiritual journey to the Governor's mansion is a long one, and we are going to need some help.

A man who lives in a $1.1 million mansion in Washington does not intend to move into an 814-square-foot cottage that he's rented out since 1997.

In many ways, this could be a replay of 1996 - a businessman with substantial party support going up against a popular incumbent, who does well enough in losing that he will be able to run for the Senate in 2008 or the governor's mansion in 2009.

The Labor Day Picnic at the Gov.'s Mansion has been canceled due to the tragedy of the recent hurricane. Our family asks that you remember the victims in your prayers.

In the past year, if we did have a visiting governor or an out-of-state guest, the mansion is in such a state that it's somewhere you would not want to take people.

If You summon me into the Mansion of Your Presence, I will ask You, how I can become one with You.

Can storied urn or animated bust / Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? / Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, / Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?

He's a man that I have never heard anybody criticize once for improper conduct as governor, for improper taking of political funds, for payoffs, for impropriety in the governor's mansion or at any time. And that is a big state. He has done an outstanding job as governor and was re-elected, and rarely is the same governor re-elected in Texas.

It just shows that in California, even a mansion can get a facelift,

The museum is one of his favorite things. But he turns 70 in February, and he might be looking to downsize from the big mansion on the water.

The Guru has shown me the unseen Mansion of the True Lord. His Mansion is eternal and unchanging; it is not a mere reflection of Maya.

The historical society was a bit upset that they were demolishing the original building but they (the home owners) had been making ongoing renovations and they just weren't going to be able to bring that building up to code. For obvious safety reasons, nursing homes can't be wooden structures anymore; they must be built with steel construction. Because of that, as well as many other reasons, the two eventually made an agreement that they would design the new building to have many similar features of the original mansion and then the original would be destroyed. If you look at some of the old pictures I really think that they achieved what they had wanted to do.

For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.

For a long time, I think my family thought I was living in a $3 million mansion in the Hollywood Hills.

It is time for you to step down from your role as CEO and director so that you can do what you do best: retreat to your waterfront mansion in the Hamptons, where you can play tennis and hobnob with your fellow socialites,

It is with great excitement that we welcome Erica to the MANSION team. MANSION is thrilled to endorse a player with Erica?s obvious talents and skills that extend far beyond the poker table, and we look forward to developing a successful partnership with her.

It looks like it would be a great reproduction of a mansion that was once there but is no longer there.

Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?

A woman can be proud and stiffWhen on love intent;But Love has pitched his mansion inThe place of excrement;For nothing can be sole or wholeThat has not been rent.

Before the starry threshold of Jove's Court / My mansion is.