#houses

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#houses #like #people #who

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#america #either #europe #europeans #few

We had all these things to deal with- houses full of people and John going to jail, guys from New York saying 'don't worry about anything.' So it was really confusing. ↗

— Michael Davis

#anything #confusing #deal #full #going

Gracie: You have an unusual house. Have you lived here long? Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don't much like it myself, but the architect is real proud of it. She calls it urban Stone Age with a Japanese Tahitian influence. I sort of just call it ugly. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#houses #humor #age

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#love #love

I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#agreement #any #bill #both #colleagues

I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#women #resistance

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

But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#basement #beach #bowling #bowling alley #came