#houses

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#architecture #big #come #curtains #daylight

We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#both #constitution #constitutional #houses #i

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses. ↗

— Renee Zellweger

#believe #buy #houses #i #i believe

I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another? ↗

— Paul Simon

#attached #damn #drive #driveway #father

I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them. ↗

— Ringo Starr

#big #bombs #born #break #break up

I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same, slightly, indifferently swinging above the stones, icily free above the stones, above the stones and then the world. If you should dip your hand in, your wrist would ache immediately, your bones would begin to ache and your hand would burn as if the water were a transmutation of fire that feeds on stones and burns with a dark gray flame. If you tasted it, it would first taste bitter, then briny, then surely burn your tongue. It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn form the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown. ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#poetry #imagination

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds. ↗

— William Lilly

#houses #hundred #i #pounds #purchased

Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean. ↗

— Ted Dexter

#architects #cracks #frequently #houses #i

It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining. ↗

— James Hogg

#drive #folds #force #gather #hands

It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses. ↗

— Helge Ingstad

#buildings #clear #fishermen #houses #indian