Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annette Funicello

At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.

Amy Hempel

I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life.

Alma Guillermoprieto

And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.

Anne Sexton

The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.

Anne Sexton

Poems aren't postcards to send home.

Anne Sexton

I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.

Anne Sexton

I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world....

Anne Sexton

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.

Anne Rice

So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.

Anna Friel

Eating at home is important for us, because we eat out so much when we're away. When I'm at home I cook a lot and we eat pretty healthily. I'm not a massive vegetable fan - I've got better since I discovered how to undercook them.

Anna Deavere Smith

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to

Anna Deavere Smith

I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

Andrew Stanton

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

Andrew Solomon

There is no question that abuse, drugs and exposure to violence at home can exacerbate someone's criminal tendencies enormously. But there are many, many criminals who don't come from that background.

Daniel Johns

I don't know if sitting home everyday is normal, but that's what I do.

Daniel Johns

I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.

Daniel Johns

I start sweating and shaking and having panic attacks if I am not at home.

D. J. MacHale

I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I'd lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe. It was haunted. The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn't say which I was rooting for.

D. H. Lawrence

Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.

D. H. Lawrence

I see a redness suddenly come Into the evening's anxious breast-- 'Tis the wound of love goes home!

Crystal Eastman

Two business women can 'make a home' together without either one being over-burdened or over-bored. It is because they both know how and both feel responsible. But it is a rare man who can marry one of them and continue the home-making partnership.

Clint Black

I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.

Clifton Fadiman

To feel at home, stay at home.

Clarence Darrow

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

Danny Garcia

I said I deserved a home fight, either Philly or Puerto Rico, since I'm always going to someone else's place to fight. Everyone thought it was a great idea to go back to Puerto Rico.

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.

Daniel Dennett

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!

David Mamet

Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just ain't gonna go home. I decided early on that I wasn't going to go home. This is what I'll be doing until they put me in jail or in a coffin.

David Fincher

It's based not only on what it played like in the theater, but it's also knowing that certain things play differently in a home theater environment. You have different expectations when you're sitting with 700 people than when you're sitting with your friends or family. It's just a different world.

David Foster Wallace

I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?

David Foster Wallace

‎Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

David Foster Wallace

The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm going to be pissed and miserable every time I have to food-shop, because my natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home.

David Foster Wallace

....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.