#house

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#buildings #cities #houses #like #lined

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#houses #interior #into #japanese #melts

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#crowded #difficult #establish #had #houses

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#central #extraordinary #furniture #had #hearth

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#certain #flats #floor #following #gained

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

— Stephen Gardiner

#approach #chiefly #demonstrate #french #houses

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#became #characteristic #dwelling #form #hall

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#admire #again #america #avenue #barack

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London. ↗

— Boy George

#around #because #been #broke #club

While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers. ↗

— David Talbot

#because #been #beneficial #bush #bush presidency