Gain Quote by William Petty

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

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

— Elsie de Wolfe

A house is a machine for living in.

— Le Corbusier

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

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

— Victor Hugo

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

— Stephen Gardiner

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

— Eileen Gray

A house can have integrity, just like a person.

— Ayn Rand