Quotes with houses

  • The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.
  • The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.
  • The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
  • People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
  • My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.
  • If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
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  • Ben Jonson A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Buddy Valastro All of my family is so close. We're always over at each other's houses.
    Buddy Valastro
    American baker and reality television personality (1977 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Oscar Wilde Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once!
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Francis Bacon Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Grandma Moses I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.
    Grandma Moses
     
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  • Malcolm X I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.
    U.S. News & World Report, 30-03-1964
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Arne Jacobsen If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Samuel Johnson If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • William Morris If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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  • Benjamin Franklin It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bunker Roy Jeff Sachs has the Millennium Villages. He spends $2.5 million in one village. It's an absolutely ridiculous model, because I've said that if you gave me $2.5 million, I can train 100 grandmothers, solar electrify 100 villages - 10,000 houses - and save you 100,000 litres of kerosene.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Martin Luther Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
    Martin Luther
     
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  • Cate Blanchett My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Beau Bridges My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Ben van Berkel My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.
    Ben van Berkel
    Dutch architect
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  • Alcaeus of Mytilene Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
    Alcaeus of Mytilene
    Ancient Greek poet
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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