Cider House Rules

Famous quotes containing the words house and/or rules:

    It is written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer”; but you are making it a den of robbers.
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 21:13.

    Jesus.

    Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints—the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk—we think we’re using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we’re its slavish agents.
    Harry Mathews (b. 1930)