Famous Quotes
- Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
- Norah Jones on Home
- Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.
- Jeffrey Kluger on Home
- Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.
- Bo Bennett on Home
- Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.
- Elayne Boosler on Home
- Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
- Henry Drummond on Home
- Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.
- Danica McKellar on Home
- Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
- Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
- Bear Grylls on Home
- Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.
- Michael Phelps on Home
- Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
- G. Gordon Liddy on Home
- Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
- Roger Moore on Home
- Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
- Alfred Hitchcock on Home
- Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
- David Frost on Home
- Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
- That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.
- Max Muller on Home
- The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
- Potter Stewart on Home
- The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou on Home
- The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.
- Florence Welch on Home
- The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.
- Lindsey Graham on Home
- The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.
- Fareed Zakaria on Home
- The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
- James Thurber on Home
- The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
- Havelock Ellis on Home
- The best thing for me is, when I'm not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines.
- Christopher Walken on Home
- The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.
- George Saunders on Home
- The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.
- Rick Warren on Home
- The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.
- Dan Savage on Home
- The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're playing this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I think that's the coolest.
- Hulk Hogan on Home
- The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
- James Hillman on Home
- The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
- Jeanette Winterson on Home
- The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
- Taylor Lautner on Home
- The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.
- Billy Corgan on Home
- The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
- Eden Ahbez on Home
- The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.
- The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
- Kin Hubbard on Home
- The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
- Buffalo Bill on Home
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.
- Billie Joe Armstrong on Home
- The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
- George Bernard Shaw on Home
- The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want.
- Scott Adams on Home
- The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.
- Sloane Crosley on Home
- The home is the chief school of human virtues.
- William Ellery Channing on Home
- The home should be the treasure chest of living.
- Le Corbusier on Home
- The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
- Edward Coke on Home
- The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
- Adolf Loos on Home
- The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.
- David Suzuki on Home
- The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
- The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
- Phil McGraw on Home
- The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
- Daniel Dennett on Home
- The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
- Jeff Bezos on Home
- The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
- The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
- James Madison on Home
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