#house

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

— Stephen Gardiner

#among #any #ascendancy #composition #gain

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn. ↗

— Graham Greene

#away #careful #economy #housewife #like

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#disillusioned #house #i #knowingly #later

Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#achieve #cannot #capitulation #confused #democrats

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow? ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#anyone #house #how #lived #living

Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know? ↗

— Bindi Irwin

#brick #down #every #every time #falls

Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#along #boy #crocodiles #dad #enough

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#ago #asked #come #course #done

I'm someone who came to Paris as a teenager, and I dreamed of coming back to Paris as a visitor. I never dreamed of having a job at the biggest luxury house in Paris and, you know, 15 odd years later, I'm still here. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#biggest #came #coming #dreamed #having

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#architecture #big #come #curtains #daylight