Famous Quotes & Sayings

Umberto Eco

For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.

Tyler Florence

Locally produced foods - defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one's home - have a lesser impact on the environment because of the decreased need for transportation from source to consumer.

Tyler Cowen

Social systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his door and then turn you away, rather his home address is hard to find. The government handcuffs you so they don't have to shoot you trying to escape. And so on.

Tyler Hoechlin

I literally would have been the guy that would have played pro ball until they came to me and said, "Go home, you don't work here anymore."

Truman Capote

Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.

Trey Songz

In my dressing room, you'll definitely find some Starbursts and Skittles. I have a lot of candles that remind me of home, and a humidifier for my voice. I also have some digital Kodak albums where I have pictures of my friends and family.

Travis Pastrana

I really enjoy being home because that's where family is. No matter where you're from, it's hard to beat home.

Tre Cool

I’ve played on literally every brand of US drums out there, and I’ve finally found my home. I’ve been looking for drums like these my whole life. True American hot rod custom kits. From the look and sound to the service and attention, it’s good to now be a part of the SJC family.

Travis Barker

On tour, you never have a home, you don`t get used to anything, and you`re always super busy.

Rick Bragg

This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.

Rick Boucher

I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when Im travelling.

Reynolds Price

A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.

Rex Stout

Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.

Raymond Chandler

Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.

Willie Morris

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

William Safire

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when he was British Foreign Secretary, said he received the following telegram from an irate citizen: "To hell with you. Offensive letter follows."

William McDonough

We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission on Earth - that is what we need to do here. Together, we can upcycle everything. The world will be better for our positive visions and actions.

William J. H. Boetcker

When away from home always be like the kind of man you would care to take into your own home.

William J. Brennan

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

Violante Placido

When I'm shooting films, I write and play music when I come home.

Woody Guthrie

Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see, This world is such a great and a funny place to be. Oh, the gamblin' man is rich, an' the workin' man is poor, And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.

Woody Guthrie

It's round the world I've traveled; it's round the world I've roamed; but I've yet to see an outlaw drive a family from its home

Woodrow Wilson

There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

Woody Allen

When you make the film, there's a big difference between when you're in your own home at the typewriter, and when you're standing on a mountain, or on a street corner, and buses are coming by-it's a different reality. You make a million changes that were never in the script, but that reality dictates.

Woody Allen

For some reason I'm more appreciated in France than I am back home. The subtitles must be incredibly good.

Woody Allen

I think, on both sides of the camera or the novel: Distraction. I'm obsessed with: Can I get this actress or my third act to work? I'm distracted. I'm interested in that so I don't sit home and think, "Gee, life is meaningless. We're all going to die. The universe is pulling apart at breakneck speed."

Woody Allen

I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.

Woody Allen

If the [actors] are working, and I have a dinner engagement, I don't do 20 takes. I do five takes and go home. I want to go to dinner.

William Wordsworth

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

William J. Clinton

I figured if I could get really good people who were going to be able to have a big impact in the world over the next decade to come together once a year for ten years and actually sign a pledge to take action themselves, if we did that every year for ten years we could do a lot of good in the world. That's the difference between my meeting and any other. If you don't want to promise to do something, don't come to my meeting, stay home.

Will Durst

The administration says the American people want tax cuts. Well, duh. The American people also want drive-through nickel beer night. The American people want to lose weight by eating ice cream. The American people love the Home Shopping Network because it's commercial-free.

Will Cuppy

A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.

Will Cuppy

During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.