"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."

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"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone."

Bobby Darin, American Musician

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"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."

Felix Adler, German Educator

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"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."

Timothy West, British Actor

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"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."

John Prescott, British Politician

Houses, Public, Right

"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."

Lillie Langtry, British Actress

Houses, Responsibility

"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."

Gene Tierney, American Actress

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"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."

William Peter Blatty, American Writer

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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."

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"The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden."

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"The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form."

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"It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process."

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"The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center."

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"The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition."

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"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."

"I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone."

"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."

"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."

"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."

"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."

"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."

"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."

"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."

"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."

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"The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature."

"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."

"Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England."

"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."

"In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead."

"The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden."

"The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form."

"It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process."

"The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center."

"The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition."