Quote by Stephen Leacock

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to…

— Stephen Leacock

The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain,…

— Anonymous

A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.

— Carly Fiorina

When I make chairs, they have legs; they can go anywhere in the world. Interiors are a different responsibility. A house is a representation…

— Marcel Wanders

A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.

— Lillian Hellman

“The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and was perched…

— Bill Bryson

An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an…

— William Petty

There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual…

— Rumer Godden

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

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

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

A house in the country is not the same as a country house.

— Gertrude Stein