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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows.
Source: The Duty of Owning Books (1859) -
But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
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By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
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Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.
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Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
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Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.
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Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view.
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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
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Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
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Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
Source: The Fire Next Time (1963) -
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
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Don Rickles and I are best friends. I know that might seem strange to those who know Don only by reputation, but somebody has to be his friend. Just to make sure I don't forget, Don gave me a doormat that sits just outside the front door of my house. It reads: 'The Newharts: The Rickleses Best Friends.'
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Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
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Every day in our house is like Valentine's Day. I've kept it traditional with what my dad has done with my mom. Every morning, I get up and I make coffee and I bring Giuliana coffee in bed.
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Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
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Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
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