Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Prager

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

Danny Huston

Usually when you're working on fight scenes, you don't really feel what's going on physically. It's more when you go back home and you're like, "My god!," and you wear the wounds or bruises with a certain amount of pride.

Anne Heche

The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Yesterday I sat in a field of violets for a long time perfectly still, until I really sank into it - into the rhythm of the place, I mean - then when I got up to go home I couldn't walk quickly or evenly because I was still in time with the field.

Anne Lamott

For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.

Anne Lamott

I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home alone, orbiting my own mind. And it's good to be out where others can see you, so you can't be your ghastly spoiled self. It forces you to act slightly more elegantly, and this improves your thoughts, and thereby the world.

Anne Lamott

I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition and in a lot of cases people need alcohol or drugs to create poetry and poetic pose that can take you so far out there where you are still able to recognize yourself and then to bring you back home where you're not the same person you were when you left.

Ann Voskamp

We're not giving what we're called to give, unless that giving affects how we live - affects what we put on our plate and where we make our home and hang our hat and what kind of threads we've got to have on our back. Surplus Giving is the leftover you can afford to give; Sacrificial Giving is the love gift that changes how you live - because the love of Christ has changed you. God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.

Ann Voskamp

Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.

Bobby Thomson

I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.

Bob Dickinson

Within a minute's time, the fire doors in that area of the ship totally isolated that part of the vessel. The ... air conditioning system was shut down so that the fire would not get any oxygen internally.

Nan Aron

With Roberts, there was an air of inevitability from the very beginning. This situation is completely different.

Richard Olson

You had local officials who were clearly traumatized. The 10,000 number was picked out of the air by someone who was clearly on his way to post-traumatic stress syndrome - and understandably so.

Rick McCallum

When you make a lot of movies, some of them don't work. So when something does work and people are genuinely moved and you have 150 million people worldwide seeing a movie, believe me, it feels good and you want to snatch those victories from the air and hold onto them as long as you can, ... It just doesn't happen very often in the film business no matter whose career it is.

Mayor Giuliano

We all know that we're up in the rarified air as far as price. But I think people realize now that we're not making this up. It's a real budget, not a shell game. The community has said it wants a 50-year building, not a 27-year building. Well, if you really want it, here's the price tag.

Richard Segal

Uribe is such a breath of fresh air in Latin America; it's nice to have a country down there that's dependable.

Julius Steicher

The organized American air and ground pirates, who even call themselves murderers, are assisting in establishing this Jewish domination.

Ahmed Khan

Two air ambulances are needed for speedy evacuation of the casualties; four mobile hospitals are needed,

George Herbert

Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.