#houses

As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#before #behind #better #both #did

Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#do you know #five #houses #how #hundred

I have been asked to collaborate with fashion houses using my artwork, which I will probably do. ↗

— Helmut Lang

#asked #been #collaborate #fashion #houses

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#always #better #build #cards #castles

If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian. ↗

— Linda McCartney

#had #slaughterhouses #vegetarian #walls #whole

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people. ↗

— Thomas More

#daily #folly #go #houses #into

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

#century #day #every #every day #him

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

Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant. ↗

— Taylor Dayne

#car #dollar #even #everything #free

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping. ↗

— Kate Walsh

#between #brass #coffee #film #houses