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Houses Quotes by Peter York
- Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.
- In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it since…
- Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine…
- The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies…
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- We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has… — Diane Ackerman
- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects… — Gaston Bachelard
- Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. — Francis Bacon
- I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have… — Kevin Bacon
- I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could… — Josephine Baker
- Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin. — Honore de Balzac
- The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street,… — Lynda Barry
- I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to… — Bjork
- My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses. — Cate Blanchett
- My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork… — Eli Broad
- Laws, like houses, lean on one another. — Edmund Burke
- Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule. — David Byrne