Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rainer Maria Rilke

One must also have been beside the dying, must have sat beside the dead in the room with the open window and the fitful noises.

Scott Dixon

Going into (Turn) 5, I got beside him and he sort of closed the door as well, so I pretty much thought he knew I was there.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Amanda Lindhout

After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

Amanda Schull

For the first four years of my studying in the U.S., I couldn't go home for two reasons. One is I was afraid that if I left my student visa may not hold and I wouldn't be able to come back to continue. Second, there was this big outrage in China that I didn't know how to face the public.

Amanda Schull

When I first came USA, I didn't feel this was my home. This was where I was studying, and then my home was now rejecting me.

Alton Brown

A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.

Anne Edwards

For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.

Anne Fortier

as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips before they fled him again. suspended somewhere between cherubs and devils, his quarry ceased to buck, and he spread his wings wide and let the rising wind carry them off across the sky, until even the predator himself had lost every hope of returning home. within that one embrace, [he] became aware of a feeling of certainty he had not thought possible for anyone - even the virtuous. with her in his arms, all other women, past, present, and future, simply ceased to exist.

Anne Hathaway

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

Ann Aguirre

... Where did you go?” “Down below.” “Ugh,” she said. “I’ve heard they’re little better than animals.” Funny. I thought the same thing about most Topsiders I encountered. Tegan touched my hand in silent sympathy, and I set my jaw. ... I stepped forward and pasted on a false smile. We were in her home, after all. The least I could do was be polite. “I’m Deuce, animal from the underground.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Drew Barrymore

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.

Drew Barrymore

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

Drew Barrymore

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Douglas MacArthur

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Donald Cargill

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

Don DeLillo

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Don DeLillo

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

Dylan Thomas

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.

Anton Chekhov

If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.