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Houses are full of things that gather dust -- Jack Kerouac
Houses, like faces, hide all kinds of memories. -- Ron Franscell
Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them. -- Victor Hugo
Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs. -- Francoise Sagan
Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight! -- William Carlos Williams
Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up. -- Bill Bryson
Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart. -- Jane Bowles
Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's. -- Jodi Picoult
Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them. -- Anais Nin
Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator. -- Gene Tierney
Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave. -- Stephen Gardiner
If you look at most of the Royal Houses in Europe, the inbreeding was pretty outstanding. -- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record. -- Gavin DeGraw
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. -- Francis Bacon
Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore. -- James Dyson
Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home. -- Tara Fela-Durotoye
People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people. -- Elizabeth Aston
You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses) -- Rachel Caine
we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts. -- Erica Jong
Houses, like people, have personalities, and, like the personalities of people, they are partly molded by all that has happened to them. -- Louis Bromfield
Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another. -- Jane Hirshfield
The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down. -- John Steinbeck
Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
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The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735. -- Andrew Tobias
Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts. -- Dean Koontz
Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament? -- Alexander Herzen
Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament? -- Alexander Herzen
The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive. -- Robert Silverberg
I try to create homes, not houses. -- Louis Kahn
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. -- Stephen King
Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic. -- David Morrissey
I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street. -- Bruce Springsteen
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
Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. -- Herodotus
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings. -- Henry David Thoreau
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon. -- William Wallace
I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
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
Milan, for me, is a city of discovery. You can find some amazing gardens behind some great houses; I also love finding beautiful galleries and incredible shops, but you have to explore. And the food is amazing. -- Francisco Costa
As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip. -- Craig Brown
Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them. -- Jerry Saltz
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below. -- Robert Fitzgerald
I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad. -- Josephine Baker
We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people. -- Thomas More
On Halloween, don't you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don't eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people's houses. That used to be such a tease. -- Derrick Rose
Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency. -- Johnny Isakson
I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them. -- Ringo Starr
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun. -- J. K. Rowling
You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community. -- Afrika Bambaataa
My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream. -- J. Cole
People ask for this life, but they don't really understand what comes with it. People just see the outside and that looks good - big houses, cars, girls, but you never see how the person is feeling deep down inside. Me personally, being a man, I'm going to feel better displaying all of this and pouring my heart out on each record. -- Bow Wow
Some women marry houses. -- Anne Sexton
I'll always build houses. -- Jeremy Renner
I like cosy, intimate houses. -- Tori Amos
A plague on both your houses. -- William Shakespeare
People make one happy, not houses. -- Elizabeth Aston
Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses. -- Horace
Lone women, like to empty houses, perish. -- Christopher Marlowe
Laws, like houses, lean on one another. -- Edmund Burke
Cop families have guns in their houses. -- Amy Carlson
I don't like being in houses alone. -- Martin Scorsese
Architects design houses. I live in a home. -- Peter Eisenman
Learning is better worth than houses or land. -- George Crabbe
But then architects don't build their own houses. -- Damien Hirst
Building houses and mansion ranching is not ranching. -- Jon Tester
People who live in seven houses shouldn't throw stones -- Amy Klobuchar
I find my movie props in my neighbors houses. -- Zach Braff
Writers do not come out of houses without books. -- Doris Lessing
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles. -- George Herbert
The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses. -- Victor Hugo
I was a Democratic governor with two Republican houses. -- Tim Kaine
I'm always moving apartments or moving houses or moving cities. -- Paul Wesley
The houses people live in reflect their opinions of themselves. -- Joseph Girzone
When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see. -- Don DeLillo
There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
I want to get out of the major opera houses. -- Renee Fleming
When you live in Mexico, your houses all have names. -- Jesse Ventura
We can make our houses homes and our homes heavens. -- Spencer W. Kimball
If it were not for guests all houses would be graves. -- Khalil Gibran
I do feel that houses have faces - and feelings too. -- Alanna Knight
Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers. -- Stephen Kinzer
People who live in glass houses must reeeeeallly trust their neighbors. -- Gregoire
Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended. -- Colley Cibber
Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule. -- David Byrne
The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall. -- Seneca the Younger
My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years. -- Nikki Reed
Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses. -- Edward Topsell
The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself. -- Etel Adnan
We need more windows for the houses. And for men, more reason! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones; or masturbate during the daytime. -- Bo
As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields. -- Leo Tolstoy
Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. -- Jeremiah
Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation. -- Susan Orlean
The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts. -- Italo Calvino
It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them. -- Coco Chanel
What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses. -- Ethel Waters
You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build. -- Ted Baillieu
Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks. -- Heather Brooke
I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that. -- John Hewson
All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods. -- Ai Weiwei
Most English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting. -- Nicholas Haslam
Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once. -- Oscar Wilde
Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty. -- James L. Farmer, Jr.
Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
If slaughter houses had glass walls, would we even be having this debate? -- Philip Wollen
I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses. -- Julianne Hough
What is Paris? ... Where nobody throws stones, for all live in glass houses. -- Sophie Irene Loeb
I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma. -- Ronnie Dunn
I love moving. I love new houses. I'm always looking for somewhere else. -- Elizabeth Hurley
Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Old beach houses sometimes don't have TVs, or you don't get cellphone reception. -- Jim Rash
Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different. -- Guy Davenport
Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts. -- Henri Poincare
In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world. -- Stephen Gardiner

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