Quotes about housing

„There is no normality in life. Having two houses means that we can get out of each other's hair - which, let's face it, we've both got a lot of“

—  Helena Bonham Carter British actress 1966

Of her relationship with Tim Burton
Guardian interview 3 Nov 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2006/nov/03/1

„Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.“

—  Emily Dickinson, book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Variant: Art is a house that tries to be haunted.
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

„Is Brooklyn in the house? Without a doubt, I'm the rapper with clout everybody yap about.“

—  The Notorious B.I.G. American rapper 1972 - 1997

"Get Money Remix"
Song lyrics

„But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her.“

—  Walter Bagehot, book The English Constitution

No. III, "The Monarchy (continued)", p. 58
The English Constitution (1867)

„That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out“

—  Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie, book Americanah

Source: Americanah

„There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.“

—  Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

„"You really should come to the house - one of these days we might die without having seen each other again." - "Since we have to die in any case, what's the use of seeing each other again?"“

—  Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

„Religionists have kept their followers in line by suppressing their egos. By making their followers feel inferior, the awesomeness of their god is insured. Satanism encourages its members to develop a good strong ego because it gives them the self-respect necessary for a vital existence in this life. If a person has been vital throughout his life and has fought to the end for his earthly existence, it is this ego which will refuse to die, even after the expiration of the flesh which housed it. Young children are to be admired for their driving enthusiasm for life. This is exemplified by the small child who refuses to go to bed when there is something exciting going on, and when once put to bed, will sneak down the stairs to peek through the curtain and watch. It is this child-like vitality that will allow the Satanist to peek through the curtain of darkness and death and remain earthbound.“

—  Anton LaVey, book The Satanic Bible

The Satanic Bible (1969)

„In shrines dwell robbers,
in idol-houses, thugs.
In mosques live vagabonds,
the lovers of God remaind aloof.“

—  Bulleh Shah Punjabi poet 1680 - 1757

Bulleh Shah, The Love-Intoxicated Iconoclast, p. 136
Couplets

„I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.“

—  Jane Austen, book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

„Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.“

—  Francis Bacon, book Essays

Of Building
Essays (1625)

„A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants…. The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.“

—  Fanny Kemble English actress and writer 1809 - 1893

Further Records, 1848-1883, vol. 1; entry dated February 12, 1874 (1891).

„Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen—the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will—are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.“

—  Fanny Kemble English actress and writer 1809 - 1893

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, ch. 1 (1863).

„Is there some particular reason that you're here?"…
"Not this again."
"Not what again?" said Clary.
"Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.“

—  Cassandra Clare, book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

„Learning is to a man as the leaves and branches are to a tree, and it can be said that he should not be without it. Learning is not only reading books, however, but is rather something that we study to integrate with our own way of life.
One who is born into the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man of military feats and achievements in loyalty, and, listening to just one of his dictums each day, will in a month know 30 precepts. Needless to say, if in a year he learns 300 precepts, at the end of that time he will be much the better.
Thus, a man can divide his mind into three parts: he should throw out those thoughts that are evil, take up those ideas that are good, and become intimate with his own wisdom… I would honor and call wise the man who penetrates this principle, though he lacks the knowledge of a single Chinese character. As for those who are learned in other matters, I would avoid them regardless of how deep their knowledge might be. That is how shallow and untalented this monk is.“

—  Takeda Shingen Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period 1521 - 1573

William Scott Wilson, ‎Gregory Lee. Ideals of the Samurai: Writings of Japanese Warriors, 1982. p 95

„I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.“

—  Johnny Cash American singer-songwriter 1932 - 2003

„It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.“

—  Umberto Eco, book The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Source: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

„A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted, and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are“

—  Tove Jansson, book Moominsummer Madness

Source: Moominsummer Madness

„When we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God? Sir, the nature and all the circumstances of this trade are now laid open to us; we can no longer plead ignorance, we can not evade it; it is now an object placed before us, we can not pass it; we may spurn it, we may kick it out of our way, but we can not turn aside so as to avoid seeing it; for it is bro directly before our eyes that this House must decide, and must justify to all the world, and to their own consciences, the rectitude of the grounds and principles of their decision.“

—  William Wilberforce English politician 1759 - 1833

"On the Horrors of the Slave Trade", speech delivered in the House of Commons (12 May 1789).