Charles Jencks Quotes
A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.Charles Jencks
Quotes to Explore
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
P. J. O'Rourke -
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
V. S. Naipaul -
What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't hang out with Ted Nugent.
Ted Cruz -
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken -
I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
Laura Dekker
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I sing around the house, in the shower.
Aaron Neville -
One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.
Kate Moss -
There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.
Warren Moon -
My thing about going to the gym is that I leave my bracelets on, and I put on my makeup the way I would do it in real life, and I wear cute clothes, because if I don't feel good when I leave the house, then I'm not motivated to do it. I need to like how I look while I'm doing it.
Taylor Momsen -
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
Pam Brown
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
A. E. Housman -
If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
Barbara Corcoran -
I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one – only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.
Karel Capek -
I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.
Ice Cube -
I don't like clothes. I don't especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat.
Xavier Niel -
Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergartner.
Patricia Polacco
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(perhaps a different and better translation of the same remark) quoted by Barbara Tuchman in The Guns of August (Random House, 1962)
Ferdinand Foch -
Remarks about the first White House Science Fair in 2010. 'It’s a prototype!' Tune in for President Obama’s Last Science Fair, April 13th (quote from video published on April 12, 2016)
Barack Obama -
Fortunately, I have seen only successful and motivating relationships around me that inspired me to get married.
Divyanka Tripathi -
Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.
Placido Domingo -
Let's set the record straight. Money is important! To say that it's not as important as any other things in life is ludicrous. What's more important, your arm or your leg? Could it be that both are important?
T. Harv Eker -
A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.
Charles Jencks