Famous quotes containing the words white house, white, house and/or ceremony:
“A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)
“You shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.”
—Quentin Tarantino, U.S. screenwriter and director. Mr. White (Harvey Keitel)
“For my father, who used to sit, hour after hour, night after night, outside our house in Africa, watching the stars “Well,” he would say, “if we blow ourselves up, there’s plenty more where we came from!””
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead-drunk in the street, carried to the duke’s house, washed and dressed and laid in the duke’s bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane, owes its popularity to the fact that it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason and finds himself a true prince.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)