Houses Quotations | Page 3

I see houses that are maintained to different degrees, I see gardens that are maintained to different degrees, ... One of the things that I would look for would be a design that very quickly would reveal individual enthusiasm of individual residents. ... Anything monolithic can, if it's designed well, look less monolithic.

I say, 'Good gracious.' Who moved out? (It's) like he took 12 houses and just ran everything back here.

People are getting fed. Soon more and more houses will have their electricity, ... Their life will get back to normal.

People are continuing to invest in their houses despite rising energy prices.

People are showing up with suitcases and suitcases of cash, offering to buy houses and real estate on the spot.

Our houses and crops have been damaged. We have incurred loss of hundreds of thousands of rupees.

Our people are dying on the streets -- we are desperate, ... There are not enough houses for us. Just look at our babies, sleeping outside.

Out of about 150 clients, we've had two or three who called and are buying houses and needed to get to some of their money.

Right now, people are being rescued off roof tops. Houses have been swept away. There's more devastation than I can imagine. I don't know what is going to happen to New Orleans. Right now, athletics are not that important.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

People who live in glass houses have to answer the bell

Part of the purchasing decision for buying a house is an expectation of what housing prices are going to do in the future. It's true that houses are getting more and more expensive, but people are increasing their wealth in ways we haven't seen in a while.

Our main goal was to protect the houses on both sides of it since it was already fully involved ... we wanted to save the other ones and keep it from spreading.

Surely we can distinguish houses that are . . . compromised beyond habitation and those that are perfectly livable,

St. Bernard is totally underwater, ... It is over the rooftops. I didn't see a lot of houses in St. Bernard.

Some of (my former co-workers) lost their houses and their cars. Some were in a lot worse financial shape than I was. Fortunately, I had help from my family and my spouse and her family, so I was able to manage.

Some houses will have one room completed; some will have two completed, but we expect almost 50 per cent of the people should have started active construction within April and the middle of May.

Some houses are looking for a small cut, which explains the rise we're seeing.

Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.

Some people are very proud of the fact that some of the material in the new houses came from their own old house.

My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories.

Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house.

I think people will go into each of these models and realize that these are finished houses. These are houses you could move into today. And we hope they are inspirational and we hope that people take away ideas not only about the houses themselves but also about the finishing of the houses. They are comfortable and functional and useful.

It doesn't matter how good or how bad they are, they gonna stay there. The houses are not much to start with, but it's all they got. And they're proud of it, and rightly so. And we just do the best we can.

I think looking at restoration from a purely (environmental) standpoint may mean tearing people's houses and businesses down. We have to look at a financial impact; when we look at environment only, where we've been for the last 20 years, it doesn't necessarily work.

It is cold out there. It's cold for the people in their houses and it's cold for the crews as well.

We live in the Lifestyle Homes at the top of the hill and we had to drive so far to shop. With all the houses out here, we needed this.

The Afghan people in the city live in something like mud houses, ... If they live out in the country, they live in old-time tents with no electricity. In town, they sleep on top of their houses because it's so hot at night.

That's the saddest thing about the Old Fire. We're using government funds and putting houses right back on the San Andreas because it's legal to do so.

My brother-in-law was building houses down here. He floated me the loan for my first house. It was a duplex. It was actually in Taunton, right across the street from Raynham,

We join with causes to help people. When we worked with Habitat for Humanity a couple of years ago, we helped build eight houses, three in the United States and five around the world. And we look at it this way, our music may be forgotten some years down the road, but the houses will still be there.

We introduced some new products this year, and the response has been tremendous, ... A lot of those ideas came from products in the south. Our order backlogs have increased quite dramatically. We're currently delivering houses ordered for December.

You just try to go about your daily routines. But I look at it, I don't know how to say this ... It's like the story about when the tornado touches down and all these houses go down but it skips just this one. It's one of those things you don't think about.

We realize people need to live somewhere but we don't want to put ourselves in a position where we have 28 houses per acre.

We're building some houses in La Sierra Heights that will sell for up to $1 million, and some we're working on in Corona will sell for more than $1 million. In those markets, for $1 million, you can get 1.5 acres, a four-car garage and horse property. For that amount in San Diego County you get a small lot.

We don't want to put in trailers or houses without utilities. We're talking about miles and miles of lines down.

We're always a little bit behind where we need to be. The funds do get there but not necessarily as quickly as the houses get there.

We carry on looking for housing opportunities for the evacuees along with the local housing authority, like vacant houses and apartments, mobile homes. We try to match the needs with the resources, with a family-by-family approach.

We had natural ice that first year so we would open the doors on the ends of the building to cool it down or if it was warm we would close them to keep it cool inside, ... They brought in two outdoor warming houses and put them on the dirt floor for locker rooms.

We had all these things to deal with- houses full of people and John going to jail, guys from New York saying 'don't worry about anything.' So it was really confusing.

We have a lot of really special houses in this area, but I get heartburn when I see some of the bad seeds bringing everybody else down.

We've had floods before, ... but nothing like this where houses sat in water for two, three weeks.

We're really honored that both houses supported the legislation.

We have had patience with the sewer, but this really is ridiculous. When it snows, we're not the first to get our road cleared. When the lights go off, we're not the first to get them back on. But when you see houses getting built with God knows how many bathrooms in them, and you only live five miles away, that's a little disheartening.

We have always said that men in police and Interior Ministry commando uniforms use Interior Ministry vehicles, raid our houses and arrest our sons. After a short time, we find some of them tortured or killed and thrown either on a sidewalk or in the river. We have warned all the officials and the American forces, but they did not respond to our calls until the American forces found this group.

We were going to remodel it at first, but we decided it would cost more than it was worth. They really desperately need houses to do this.

When I first started painting, I had an interesting nightmare about Cleveland - I dreamed the houses there were encased in this free-floating cage structure. I guess Cleveland was a confining place for me, even though my parents weren't too conservative.

When I first heard Bob Marley I was 12 years old. I had just come to the United States from Haiti, and was living in the Marlborough Houses in Brooklyn.

Under the Constitution, the same version of a bill has to be passed by both houses of Congress. We filed our lawsuit because it's important for the government to abide by the law.

We didn't really think we were going to win. We went around to look at the other houses and there were pretty nice houses out there.

We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.

We are not going to be able to have people sitting in houses in the city of New Orleans for weeks and months while we de-water and clean this city,

We prefer to stay in our house as we still have our second floor. We would leave the house and go to the shelter houses only if the water has already reached roof high.

When I go back, life won't be like it was. If we're lucky, our roofs are still on and our houses didn't catch on fire. If we're not, water came up to our attic and we lost everything.

We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing.

What I don't see is a collapse in pricing. To get a collapse ... there would have to be a big job loss where people are forced to put their houses on the market for distress sales.

We used 30 minutes of studio time here and there when people had openings. We recorded it at various houses in this town and a few studios we can't mention. We had it mastered at Georgetown.

We're trying to make the concert series even more special than it was before; it's tough getting people out of their houses anymore... we're trying to reach out to the community, get other organizations involved and do more with the people.

There are a lot of people who would build there if they'd change the flood zone. There are a lot of houses over there that could be renovated, but the banks are reluctant to lend money because of the flood plain.

There are many things consumers and business owners can do now and in the coming weeks to help put their financial houses back in order in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, ... The FDIC is doing what we can to try to keep this natural disaster from turning into a financial disaster for all the people harmed by Katrina.

There are many large houses on this river belonging to what were formerly large and flourishing plantations, but which, since the Revolution of 1835-6, had been suffered to go to decay.

We called our home and it was ringing, and we called a few of our relatives' homes and it was ringing. We felt that's a good indication our houses are still standing.

We build all of our houses out of concrete blocks.

We, as a police department, intend to keep working with this woman. We'll make her a part of open houses and other events and have her talk about motorcycle safety every chance we get.

We have full houses almost every night. Everybody that I talk to has a wonderful time. It's something special. At any given time around the world, there are not a lot of groups who are doing plays from the Golden Age. We really work at finding these world-class groups who perform these plays.

We have found 29 dead bodies so far. About 9,300 villagers must stay at refugee tents because their houses were destroyed by the flood and landslide.

When I was younger it was plain to me I must make something of myself. Older now I walk back streets admiring the houses of the very poor. . . .

The reconstruction is an opportunity to push more houses out of the flood plain.

There has been a huge drop in the amount of people coming to open houses because of the lack of signs.

We saw his name on a house we liked. We liked that he seemed to know a lot about native plants, but really, it was the excitement he expressed when he talked about doing different things with the house. He obviously enjoys building houses and had this twinkle in his eyes when he talked about it.

We saw about 200,000 homes that need to be bulldozed. It's ridiculous. We saw houses with cars still on top of them. We saw a two-story house with a tractor-trailer upside-down on top of it.

We kind of cover the full spectrum, we have houses from 11,000 feet down to 4,000 feet, ... At this showcase in particular you definitely get a good feel for what's out there you get the high end homes stepping down to the mid-level homes.

We're not overly concerned. There is still time for them to get their houses together and we are monitoring them closely.

We're not just a bunch of houses sitting in a farmer's field. Phoenixville is a great place to live.

Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites.

Too many historic houses have been destroyed. I'd welcome any kind of effort to protect them. Our town's history definitely has to be preserved.

The problem is that the villagers leave their houses only at the last moment when the waters start flooding in. We really have to persuade them to leave earlier,

This shows a continued need for new houses in line with the recommendations of the Barker report.

When you have the homes in there, we have to concentrate on protecting the houses and their property. The more we have scattered around here, the more that runs our unit short.

There are a few ways that we find out about vacant houses that need to be torn down. Either neighbors call about the vacant houses or our staff find the houses.

There are 15 houses on the street, and seven of them have kids. My kids are older now. They travel the road on bicycle, which really makes me nervous.

When you drive around Biloxi and see all those houses that have been very badly damaged and see people living in the rubble for weeks and weeks, it's easy to understand how traumatizing this has been for these families.

We always maintain a list of existing growers who want to add to their broiler houses as well as people who are interested in becoming growers.

While I was designing my home, I was living in different houses all around the world, and I saw thermostats that were just as bad as the ones in the U.S., or houses that needed them but didn't have them. I realised that this was a worldwide problem. I thought, 'Let's fix it.'

We will have an opportunity to discuss in depth the key aspects of interaction between Russia and Uzbekistan with President Islam Karimov, as well as with the speakers of both houses of the Uzbek parliament.

Two separate kitchens in very large houses is not uncommon now.

Two more houses have come in the past year, huge houses. I remember when there was nothing.

The reason we came to Citrus Springs is it wasn't overcrowded, and it was quiet, ... We were the first on our street. Now there are six houses and a couple more lots have been cleared for new homes. But we like it here.

Fires at houses of worship continue. Arrests continue to be made. And defendants continue to be prosecuted and convicted.

Fifteen percent is low. Building a dozen houses at a time is not going to fulfill our needs.

But people have to follow our design for constructing quake-resistant houses to get the compensation money.

We've been on a meteoric rise for three or four years now. Houses can only double in value every five or six years for a while before plain economics bring them back in line.

We're talking about pavement - houses and shopping malls. It's very difficult to reverse that.

The government had promised in 2001 to build 1.6 million houses for the rehabilitation of people displaced during the (then planned) demolition but only half-a-million houses have been built so far.

We've had six or seven houses and two mobile homes destroyed but there were no serious injuries. They were lucky.

Women are secluded. All you see is mostly just males. The only time I've seen women is when we're flying low over the houses and even then, they're covered.

The operations are under preparation and you will see them in your houses as soon as they are complete.

We have a far greater number of historic houses than 20th century houses.

We had to go to almost 800 houses to get signatures, just to get their approval to set up the task force.

To assume that his entire tax package is going to be passed through both houses of Congress without modification would be inaccurate.