#houses

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#building #chosen #first #followed #forced

Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#bomb #bombers #combatants #enemy #enemy combatants

By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#any #appreciate #commodity #could #did

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#bunny #filming #find #go #houses

In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#deep #deep south #estates #had #houses

The key to house prices is the share of foreclosure or short sales in the total housing market. When that share rises, house prices will fall, because distressed properties sell for significantly less - currently around 25 percent below non-distressed houses. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#because #below #currently #distressed #fall

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more? ↗

— Ryan Giggs

#does #earn #enough #football #get

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#carefree #explains #free state #happy #houses

Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. ↗

— Herodotus

#bolts #god #greater #greatest #his

I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that. ↗

— John Hewson

#bit #enamoured #got #houses #i