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

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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
  • House
  • Health
  • Lose

• 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
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• 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
  • World
  • Real
  • House

• 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
  • House
  • Cool
  • Rock

• The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Music
  • House
  • Opera

• I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • House
  • Want
  • You

• I sing around the house, in the shower.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • House
  • Sing
  • Shower

• 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
  • True
  • Girl
  • Sad

• 'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Up
  • Country
  • Book

• 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
  • Time
  • House
  • Myself

• 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
  • Up
  • Bad
  • House

• 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
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Home
  • House
  • Small

• A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Good
  • Great
  • Home

• The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Live
  • House
  • Cheap

• If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • House
  • Make
  • Below

• 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
  • People
  • Live
  • House

• 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
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • House
  • Energy
  • Choices

• We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • House
  • Dogs
  • Portraits

• I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Friends
  • Memories
  • Influence

• We as Americans have ripped off the world. We get to throw food away. It's insane.

  

  John McAfee
  • World
  • Food

• Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Always
  • Solo
  • Mix

• A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

  

  Charles Jencks
  • House