#houses

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#clothes #eye #fine #furniture #houses

We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#government #houses #jobs #learning #responsibility

Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#another #chimneys #church #could #distinguish

We're kind of in a voyeuristic world. We have TV shows that are all about watching people do weird things in houses. People are obsessed with that. There's live coverage of it. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#coverage #houses #kind #live #obsessed

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#art #art form #attendance #ever #form

I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one. ↗

— Bjork

#easy #here #houses #i #made

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#adolescence #childhood #could #early #early life

We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly processed and it was Americans that did it. If we are going to continue to utilize those goods, then what's going to have to happen is that the employers are going to have to elevate the wages in order to attract American workers to do those jobs. ↗

— Mo Brooks

#american workers #attract #built #chicken #continue

I ended up living at OJ's because Nicole bought a home that no longer had a guest house. OJ offered his guest house to me. Anybody in LA looking for a place knows the best places to live are guest houses. ↗

— Kato Kaelin

#because #best #bought #ended #guest

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule. ↗

— David Byrne

#objects #often #ridicule #sheds #suburban