Our Favorite Quotes from the Project

These are the strange, funny or interesting things that neighbors, friends, relatives or people that just stopped by have said.

What in the world made you want to do this?

So, it's gonna be efficient, isn't it?

"You guys are so dedicated."

"We had to put this window in for fire egress. It will probably make this room a little bit colder" "You could have built it the same as the rest of the house and built in blast caps with a firing device. Then if there's a fire, you just pull the string and it would blow a hole in the wall." "Hmmm...that's an idea"

Did you empty all of these cans yourself?

Oh, it's made out of tires?!

Is this an earth house?

HER: "Are you going to use the rest of those tires?" ME: "No." HER:"May I have three or four?"

Why'd you use 235's all the way up? That must have taken forever!

Now if this was my house all of these cans would be Budweiser.

"I think it's gonna be ugly."

"Have you had any problems with the Firestone's?"

"I don't like it."

"What a great concept!"

"How much did you pay for the tires?"

"Yeah... Why are you doing this again?"

"Holy Cow!"

"Can't say I ever worked on one of these before."

"What the hell are you doing!? You've got a lot of people worried!"

"Why don't you just fill them with concrete?"

"I'd like to see a drunk driver run into this house.  He'd wreck his car good!" --what?

"WOW! I'm so glad you guys are doing this! I've got a bunch of tires at my house if you want them!"

"Dennis Weaver's got himself one of these, don't he?"

"Recycling is always good, but......gees."

"I was just driving by and I saw this and I thought 'That's gotta be Jason and Ellen'!"

"What the heck are you building?"  "A house" I said. "Oh" and he walked away.

"Well.  This is.........interesting"

"You know, we get some strong winds out here, how are you gonna keep your walls from blowin' down?"

"How'd you stack them so neatly?"

It's looking good.........I mean, for a pile of tires.

It's a good idea.  I would never do it, but it's a good idea.

We were going to do this, but it was too much work.

"What is it?" "A house." "Oh. It looks like a garage."

"Wow. This is amazing. I'd like to bring my wife by here to see it, if you don't mind." - the foundation inspector

"I think it just might work. It just might work"

"I just have to know, what is it?" "It's a house." "Shoot.  I just lost ten bucks."

"Wow. This is so cool.  You guys have really gotten me passionate about building something."

"My mom wanted me to build her one of these, I said 'I'm not filling tires with dirt."

"I can't believe that no one's been hurt out here."                                                  - shortly before our only accident thus far "Now you can say that your house was built with blood, sweat and tears."                                                  - shortly after our only accident thus far

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