A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
There is no normality in life. Having two houses means that we can get out of each other's hair - which, let's face it, we've both got a lot of
It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.
I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.
Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.
When you live in Mexico, your houses all have names.
Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.
How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.
Ain't that America, home of the free? Little pink houses for you and me.
I grew up doing some landscaping and painting houses and that kind of thing.
Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of that thickness. The meeting-house steeple reaches out of their sphere.
In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.
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.
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
In our young minds houses belonged to women were their special domain, not as property, but as places where all that truly mattered in life took place - the warmth and comfort of shelter, the feeding of our bodies, the nurturing of our souls. There we learned dignity, integrity of being; there we learned to have faith. The folks who made this life possible, who were our primary guides and teachers, were black women.
The family is both mystery and reality; it houses our bodies and our spirits.
It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.
All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.