Houses Quotes

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

Fine, Eye, Blind

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

Men, Easy, While

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

Rather, Often, Property

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.
Kevin Bacon

Money, Greed, Once

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

Women, Live, Evil

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
Edmund Burke

Another, Laws, Lean

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

Money, Selfish, Others

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
Honore de Balzac

Business, Hard, Find

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
Stephen King

Funny, Off, Road

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.
Jim Carrey

Money, Experience, Away

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis Bacon

Live, Before, Preferred

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander Pope

Men, Best, Pride

I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.'
Harry Nilsson

Everything, Thought, Point

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

Fun, Regret, Find

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

Rain, Daily, Cannot

A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.
Jerry Saltz

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

Work, Art, Game

Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.
Jerry Saltz

Money, Value, Content

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
Kevin Spacey

Success, Death, Successful

We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.
Newt Gingrich

Work, Government, Learning

I don't like being in houses alone.
Martin Scorsese

I like cosy, intimate houses.
Tori Amos

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'
Marco Rubio

Nature, Nice, Hate

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

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.
David Byrne

Often, Ridicule, Tin

Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.
Susan Orlean

American, Seem, Cars

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Build, Air, Cards

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

Give, Find, Idea

When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It's like a clan. If I'm asked to people's houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they'll talk about other things.
Jacqueline Bisset

Hate, Working, Talk

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

Home, Friends, Eyes

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