#houses

I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same, slightly, indifferently swinging above the stones, icily free above the stones, above the stones and then the world. If you should dip your hand in, your wrist would ache immediately, your bones would begin to ache and your hand would burn as if the water were a transmutation of fire that feeds on stones and burns with a dark gray flame. If you tasted it, it would first taste bitter, then briny, then surely burn your tongue. It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn form the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown. ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#poetry #imagination

The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket. ↗

— Nicole McKay

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #building

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds. ↗

— William Lilly

#houses #hundred #i #pounds #purchased

Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean. ↗

— Ted Dexter

#architects #cracks #frequently #houses #i

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#al #came #dinner #early #feeling

It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining. ↗

— James Hogg

#drive #folds #force #gather #hands

I love moving. I love new houses. I'm always looking for somewhere else. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#else #houses #i #i love #looking

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#architect #architecture #art #astonishingly #build

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses. ↗

— Anselm Kiefer

#around #bricks #buildings #built #childhood

I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house. ↗

— Jared Leto

#comforting #empty #found #house #houses