Books Quote by J. Milton Hayes

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It…

— Christian Louboutin

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

One of man's basic concerns is a house - a place to find protection from the rain and elements. But a house can be…

— Pedro Arrupe

A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.

— Eileen Gray

I think of houses as having their own personality.

— Kelsey Grammer

What really makes a home a home is seeing the books of whoever lives there.

— Antonia Lofaso

A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art…

— John Updike

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

— Victor Hugo

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

— William Krisel

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

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 is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

— Benjamin Franklin