Quotes about Houses

"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them."
-Henry David Thoreau

"The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day."
-Arnold Newman

"When the house is on fire good girls have to get out as well as the bad ones."
-John Pierpont Morgan

"A plague o' both your houses!"
-William Shakespeare

"Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had."
-Sir Francis Bacon

"The houses will remain in place until the contractor decides what it wants to do with them."
-Cindy Brown

"What we need to get done as a community is have a wider range (of houses) approved."
-Jerry Bunin

"They weren't found inside his house. They were found two or three houses down with my car into a tree, with two gunshot wounds to the head."
-Catherin Curns

"Expression will automatically get a lot of resistance from design houses because there is a lot of emotion tied to the [Adobe] brand."
-Jered Cuenco

"All the houses are flooded in my neighborhood because of poor planning."
-Rachel Martin

"When you think about it, there are a lot of coffee houses."
-Tony Sheridan

"Sometimes the French houses have a yeastier flavor than the domestics. You either like it or you don't like it."
-Lynn White

"We did everything from raking leaves to gutting houses and I felt privileged to be able to help those who weren't able to help themselves."
-Ashley Clark

"I don't care if there are no houses around me. I want to come back home. This is home to me."
-Michael Knight

"All the people, their houses and culture are still encapsulated there as they were in 1815."
-Haraldur Sigurdsson

"So we still own two houses."
-Rose Bertrand

"Those IMAX houses are just phenomenal."
-Dan Fellman

"They've lost their houses. They are very frustrated, and some of them are desperate, because they don't know what they're going back to."
-Patricia Myers

"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

"Ever since we've had these light houses, not one ship has come into our house. About twice a year they have to have a new bulb put in."
-Carolyn Harvey

"For every five houses on the demolition list there will be 10 more to inspect."
-Larry Bailey

"It was a team thing, we wanted to come together, and hair was another way of doing that. We had a couple of houses where we could get it done for free, so we went for it."
-Troy Davenport

"It's unfortunate. This is something I do as a last resort because we really want to see these houses completed."
-Grant Tolbert

"He drives a Volkswagen Beetle around in an age when you have university presidents who have French chefs in their houses."
-Travis Reindl

"This is set in stone. This is a done deal. Some of us are going to lose our houses, our cars."
-Calvin Williams

"Katrina strengthens the House's hand that we need to stick to this budget."
-John Scofield

"Builders are talking big. They all said they will build more houses in early 2006 than in early 2005. You don't have to worry that 2006 will be a good, strong market. But expect it to be a highly competitive market."
-Jack Inselmann

"I thought it was down by the bridge or down by the boat houses. I kept trying to get him to go that way, but he refused."
-Jenn Kruckow