20th century Quote by Arnold Newman

He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got…

— Leonard Cohen

When you do movies on low budgets, you don't want to have a location that requires a very big light right outside the window…

— Darius Khondji

“They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving.”

— Raymond Carver

“I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain them the rest of…

— Rebecca Solnit

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these…

— Anonymous

It's interesting to see these lives from places I may never go unfold on screen.

— Paz Vega

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.

— Sarah Waters

“A thousand years or more ago, When I was newly sewn, There lived four wizards of renown, Whose name are still well-known: Bold Gryffindor…

— JK Rowling

My room may be a mess but I know everything where some things are.

— Ewshy

“All up and down the street the houses looked like any others—but inside them were people who might be happy, or taking refuge, or…

— Celeste Ng

“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or…

— John Fowles

I don't like haunted houses or anything like that.

— Joe Burrow

One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through our garden,…

— Emilia Clarke

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

— Victor Hugo