Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phyllis Diller

When you play spin the bottle, if they don't want to kiss you they have to give you a quarter. Well, hell, by the time I was twelve years old I owned my own home.

Rachel Cusk

A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.

Rachel Cusk

In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.

Q'orianka Kilcher

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

Queen Victoria

Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.

Queen Latifah

Life's not about sitting at home in front of the TV waiting for your life to begin. Get out there and take some chances.

Placido Domingo

I feel at home in an orchestral score.

Joss Stone

There are people in England that claim benefits because they are too nervous to work, so they claim their benefits for anxiety and never have to go out side there free home.

Jostein Gaarder

The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.

Joss Whedon

Making 'The Avengers' was very important to me, but it was also extremely arduous. I missed my friends and I missed my home, so I decided to throw them all on camera, which is the only way I seem to know to relate to people.

Koichi Tanaka

When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.

Konrad Adenauer

When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.

Kofi Annan

UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades of conflict. The blue helmets and their civilian colleagues work together to organize elections, enact police and judicial reform, promote and protect human rights, conduct mine-clearance, advance gender equality, achieve the voluntary disarmament of former combatants, and support the return of refugees and displaced people to their homes.

Kim Smith

The editing process is a necessary evil. I can write until the cows come home but it is all garbage until it gets edited.

Kevin Harvick

Kyle Busch is going to get his ass whipped shortly I hope. He better sit his ass in his motor home or I’m going to come find him and he’s going to have to hold my watch because I’m going to whip his ass. He’s the biggest whining little piece of [expletive] I’ve ever seen in my whole life.

Kevin Keegan

You can't do better than go away from home and get a draw.

Kevin Keegan

I risked getting my tyres nicked by going to Robbie Fowler's home in Liverpool!

Kent Nerburn

That is the magic of travel. You leave your home secure in your own knowledge and identity. But as you travel, the world in all it's richness intervenes. You meet people you could not invent; you see scenes you could not imagine. Your own world, which was so large as to consume your whole life, becomes smaller and smaller until it is only one tiny dot in time and space. You return a different person.

Kenneth Anger

Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.

Kenneth Branagh

I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me

Kendrick Lamar

How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?

Kelly Preston

I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.

Katy Perry

I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I was left without a home.

Rahm Emanuel

I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people are born very far from home.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

Scott Niedermayer

Representing Canada as a hockey player is always a tremendous honor, which also comes with a lot of responsibility. Being able to compete and win a gold medal on our home soil made it a once in a lifetime experience. Capping off the best ever performance by not only the Canadian athletes, but also Vancouver and all Canadians, made for an amazing Olympic experience.

Scott McNealy

The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today - makes more sense than ever.

Satyajit Ray

It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.

Liam Gallagher

The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.