#houses

When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records. ↗

— Gary Numan

#band #became #fan #go #had

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#debarred #enter #female #houses #nor

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#born #chauffeur #cook #county #early

Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#apparently #balancing #flags #flying #grand

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. ↗

— John Prescott

#decent #fundamental #houses #housing #into

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent. ↗

— John Prescott

#billion #buy #desperately #discount #given

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. ↗

— John Prescott

#affordable #built #higher #houses #intelligent

What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not. ↗

— Emily Procter

#because #clean #coming #cops #friends

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#across #away #benefits #both #come

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#houses #like #people #who