Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. – Henry David Thoreau
What isn’t for everybody shouldn’t be for anybody: the world’s opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities. – Howard Jacobson
I have been asked to collaborate with fashion houses using my artwork, which I will probably do. – Helmut Lang
I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. – Josephine Baker
In the mid-1800s, they were known also as ‘singsong houses,’ and the courtesans were actually master musicians. – Amy Tan
Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers. – Chris Chocola
The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens. – Robert Fortune
The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach. – Stephen Gardiner
There’s a blockbuster side to Knopf, whether it’s P. D. James or John le Carre or our best-selling books. We try to sell our writers as aggressively as those houses regarded as commercial with a capital C. – Sonny Mehta
The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor. – Stephen Gardiner
In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds. – William Lilly