The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
Stephen Gardiner

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
Stephen Gardiner

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
Italo Calvino

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
Bruce Beresford

The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.
Robert Fortune

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.
Hernando Cortes

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
Anselm Kiefer

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

The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.
David Wilkerson

Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.
Christopher Columbus

There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.
Glenn Close

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
Logan P. Smith

There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.
Joshua Sylvester

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.
Arthur Rubinstein

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

Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.
Blair Underwood

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.
Melissa Bean

We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down.
Lynette Fromme

We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing.
John Prescott