#houses

I'm not the type to pat myself on the back and all that, but somebody has to be lucky, right? When I got to Dallas, I was struggling - sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment. I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#around #back #big #dallas #drive

When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15. ↗

— Aida Turturro

#cleaning #debut #done #houses #i

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space. ↗

— Clarence Stein

#beauty #depend #grouping #house #houses

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behavior. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#bow #cars #celebrities #down #fame

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#bow #cars #celebrities #down #fame

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#beautiful #build #children #commonly #considering

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

If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#cars #crisis #cuban #cuban missile crisis #driven

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#across #away #benefits #both #come

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

— Logan P. Smith

#houses #like #people #who