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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
View quotes by Edmund Burke

I don't really like the north. It's always raining, it's really cold and I don't like all those little houses.
View quotes by Freddie Kanoute

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

Newly-built houses suffer from something of an image problem.
View quotes by John Prescott

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.
View quotes by Ranulph Fiennes

"I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house."
View quotes by Jared Leto

Safe upon solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
View quotes by Edna St Vincent Millay

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
View quotes by Alcaeus

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

View quotes by Mary Wortley Montagu

But I generally recognise, unless we lift the amount of houses in supply, we are not likely to reduce greatly that increase in prices in housing, which even now is two or three times people's yearly earnings.
View quotes by John Prescott

Is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.
View quotes by Galbraith

'I've got four houses in my street. I live in two and the others are empty. I'll buy more as they come up, because I think it would be great to have the entire street.'
View quotes by Hugh Grant

They value themselves much upon their antiquity: The ancient race of their houses, and families, and the like; and above all, upon their ancient heroes: their King Caractacus Owen ap Tudor, Prince Lewellin, and the like noblemen and princes of british
View quotes by Daniel Defoe

Pre-game pep talk before facing England: 'Look what these bastards have done to Wales. They've taken our coal, our water, our steel. They buy our houses and they only live in them for a fortnight every 12 months. What have they given us? Absolutely nothing. We've been exploited, raped, controlled and punished by the English - and that's who you are playing this afternoon'
View quotes by Phil Bennett

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a mans. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
View quotes by Phyllis McGinley

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffee houses - folk music - then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.
View quotes by David Crosby

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.
View quotes by Margaret Mead



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