Another Quote by Frances Mayes

Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

— Jane Hirshfield

A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract…

— Marguerite Duras

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

— Anonymous

A house is more than just a shelter; that it is a way of improving your way of life.

— William Krisel

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

— Anonymous

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

— Elsie de Wolfe

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

— Coco Chanel

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

— Victor Hugo

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of…

— John Green

I think it's important to approach a house in a way that's reflective of the original environment. Maybe I'm a sentimentalist, but I think…

— Kelsey Grammer

I love houses. I'm not sure why.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place,…

— Tennessee Williams