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If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
People who live in seven houses shouldn't throw stones
— Amy Klobuchar
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
— Kevin Spacey
The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets
— Harper Lee
— Harper Lee
Never agree to marry a man because he has potential. Men are not houses, they do not make good fixer-uppers.
— Jill Shalvis
This ink will make your skin yours again. Maybe someday, you'll see that your skin isn't you. It's just what houses you while you're here.
— Tammara Webber
You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind ...
— Khalil Gibran
The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive.
— J.K. Rowling
but mostly his work just made him dislike houses. These enormous anchors that people tied to their lives.
— Emily St. John Mandel
Sorrow rushed into her soul, moaning softly like the winter wind in abandoned manor houses.
— Gustave Flaubert
There may be some truth in that idea houses absorb the emotions that are spent in them
— Stephen King
Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.
— Vinod Khosla
I had to stop sneaking around girls' houses like some kind of dumb-ass cat burglar. Clearly it got me nowhere good.
— Kieran Scott
We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.
— Grace King
What do wealthy people do with their money? They can only buy so many cars, houses, and steak dinners. So we either give it away or invest it.
— Foster Friess
The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.
— Kenneth Waltz
Don't start," he warned.
"What?" she said, grinning. "I'm sure all the big, bad trappers have a bun-bun in their houses. — Jana Oliver
"What?" she said, grinning. "I'm sure all the big, bad trappers have a bun-bun in their houses. — Jana Oliver
Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can't take my houses with me when I move.
— Brigitte Bardot
Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
— Stephen Gardiner
Gentlemen are often invited to stay in other people's houses. Rooms hardly ever are.
— Susanna Clarke
Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.
— Euripides
There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses."
— Edwidge Danticat
It's like a haunted house we can't leave,' Neil said.
A haunted house we're afraid to leave, Tony thought. — Christopher Pike
A haunted house we're afraid to leave, Tony thought. — Christopher Pike
In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.
— John Bright
I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses. — W.B.Yeats
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses. — W.B.Yeats
Anyone who started a quarrel had to atone for it by buying a dish of coffee for everyone present.
— Tom Standage
The only thing what happens in the Houses of Parliament is the debate about foxes, badgers and moles
— Wayne Wignall
Yesterday she thought that the hungries were like houses that people used to live in. Now she thinks that every one of those houses is haunted.
— M.R. Carey
I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.
— Luke Evans
She's a gipsy really. That's why she can't stay in houses. She wanders away and comes back again.
— Agatha Christie
I need money. I have a staff of 30, and four houses, never mind the government, to support.
— Bob Hope
I love moving. I love new houses. I'm always looking for somewhere else.
— Elizabeth Hurley
Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.
— Ingrid Newkirk
I used to clean my brother and sister's rooms. And I would go to friends' houses and clean their rooms, too.
— Marie Kondo
My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.
— Sarah Waters
I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.
— Lillie Langtry
Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.
— Anne Sexton
Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows
— Mark Twain
My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.
— P.G. Wodehouse
People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.
— Elsa Peretti
The ordinary build houses when they have bricks; the extraordinary build mansions when they have pebbles.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
There are no houses to wife. only window seats to occupy when the weather needs changing & waters to flow past our ankles on Sundays as we fish.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.
— Loretta Young
I've never left Istanbul, never left the houses, streets, and neighborhoods of my childhood.
— Orhan Pamuk
Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight!
— William Carlos Williams
To begin with I thought we were driving around in circles until I realised that Herr Starbuck owned dozens of coffee houses.
— Timur Vermes
Do overcrowded houses breed dogs?
— Miquiel Banks
Even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.
— Edith Wharton
Shelby watched the books burn. She wonders if words are pouring down on other people's houses,sad words, like beast and mourn and sorrow and mother.
— Alice Hoffman
My woods...the young fir balsams like a place
Where houses all are churches and have spires. — Robert Frost
Where houses all are churches and have spires. — Robert Frost
I like interior decorating. I really like to build houses. And landscaping, I like that.
— Ester Dean
Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.
— Peter York
I don't like being in houses alone.
— Martin Scorsese
I think part of me was born loving you.
— Shiloh Walker
How good it was that people, like houses, had frames and that those frames could be so beautiful.
— Erika Swyler
I like cosy, intimate houses.
— Tori Amos
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
Books are expensive. So are nice houses with gardens. Has it occurred to you that someone has to pay for your peaceful life?
— Lisa Kleypas
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
— Stephen Gardiner
Some people are so into web standards that they've removed all the tables from their houses
— Jared Spool
Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
— Olivier Theyskens
Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.
— H.P. Lovecraft
If you were to buy a [BMW] 6-series, I recommend you select reverse when leaving friends' houses so they don't see its backside.
— Jeremy Clarkson
There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
There is no normality in life. Having two houses means that we can get out of each other's hair - which, let's face it, we've both got a lot of
— Helena Bonham Carter
It is our dream that by the time we celebrate the 75th year of independent India, all the slums are replaced by cemented houses.
— Narendra Modi
Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.
— Jackie French
Gingerbread houses
with gumdrops and peppermint
and marshmallow snow. — Richelle E. Goodrich
with gumdrops and peppermint
and marshmallow snow. — Richelle E. Goodrich
On they went, past the hen houses. These were all mended and painted. They went through a field to the street. It was very strange
— Gertrude Chandler Warner
I don't want to discount the beautiful work that the fashion houses do, but somehow, just focusing on what you're wearing feels reductive.
— Reese Witherspoon
I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.
— Malcolm X
There are so many ways to make a living that don't involve hiding in bushes opposite houses of 18-year-old girls with a camera in your hand.
— Jamie Dornan
The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.
— Nicole McKay
Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.
— T. E. Hulme
The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.
— Charles Bukowski
The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
— Bjork
Houses seem to remember,' said he.
'Some rooms oppress us with a sense of lives that have been lived in them. — Emma Frances Dawson
'Some rooms oppress us with a sense of lives that have been lived in them. — Emma Frances Dawson
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. -The Decoration of Houses
— Edith Wharton
What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.
— Emily Procter
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
— Daryl Hall
As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance.
— Frank Herbert
I don't know what's worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them.
— Anthony Liccione
To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.
— Lars Larsen
Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick. Hippocrates (460?-377? B.C.) I
— S.L. Viehl
With TV, you're in people's houses every night. And you have so much time to tell stories. I don't know why I didn't do it before.
— Lee Daniels
People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.
— Elizabeth Aston
My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas ... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories.
— Juan Felipe Herrera