Vacant Houses Quotes

#1. The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.

Alan Greenspan

#2. I don't know what's worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them.

Anthony Liccione

#3. I'm the guy, I'm kind of like the, uh, Everyman, so I think people just relate to that.

Kato Kaelin

#4. Five houses?" Lothaire had sneered, cutting Trehan off. "You all live under one roof now. Mine. Because I'm the king of the castle." Then his red eyes had grown vacant, and he'd begun muttering about "Lizvetta's lingerie."
Trehan had been ... underwhelmed by the Enemy of Old's attention span.

Kresley Cole

#5. Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

Alexander Theroux

#6. Dominate me, do it. Please." Make me forget. That's what he did, he made me forget. Even if only for a little while. During those minutes, I could be free.

Lucian Bane

#7. I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first principle of war is to kill the enemy.

Constance Markievicz

#8. I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.

Jess Walter

#9. I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.

Edward Ruscha

#10. I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separates artists from the rest of us, like making art or music or painting or whatever is some magical thing that you have to be inspired to do, and special people do it.

Ann Leckie

#11. The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

Jen Kirkman

#12. Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that does not want freedom or peace, or the absence of problems. There's something that wants the opposite.

Eckhart Tolle

#13. You've got to be buried before you can blossom.

Hope D. Blackwell

#14. I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.

Lil' Wayne

#15. Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside the bundle.

Thomas Huxley

#16. England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

Elizabeth McGovern

#17. If man had the wisdom of age in youth and the vitality of youth in age, then he would be an eternally wise young man. (Feb 2003)

James King

#18. My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.

Malala Yousafzai

#19. Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.

Walter Russell