Stephen Gardiner Quotes

What does a house want to be?

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect them like other people collect teapots. I don't know why I love them so much. I'm just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives.

I think of houses as having their own personality.

A man's house is his castle.

I really love houses.

A house is a machine for living in.

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

I love houses. I'm not sure why.

Home ...Home. ...the word, ...has ...no ...meaning

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.

A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

The sky's the limit if you have a roof over your head.

I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

I don't care where I live, so long as there's a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high-speed Internet access.

You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.

I just wondered how things were put together.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.