Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Brown

The (Internet Service Provider) called me at home at 10 p.m. Tuesday to tell me what had happened.

Robin Williams

When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work.

The longest road out is the shortest road home

James Thomas Fields

Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!

James T. Walsh

Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible.

James T. Walsh

Any Congressional agreement of an arbitrary time table to bring our troops home before we have accomplished our mission is unacceptable and could potentially increase the risk to our soldiers.

James T. Walsh

Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished.

James Taylor

Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

James Thurber

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

James Thurber

It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

James Thurber

In the pathways between office and home and home and the houses of settled people there are always, ready to snap at you, the little perils of routine living, but there is no escape in the unplanned tangent, the sudden turn.

James P. Cannon

The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.

James Otis

A man's house is his castle.

James Patterson

The hamster called. He wants his home back.

James Patterson

So Fnick, can I change channel?" Iggy asked. "There's a game on." "Make yourself at home, Figgy." Fang said.

James Patterson

NOOOO!" On the screen, a woman's eyes bugged almost out of her head, and I tried not to scream. Tried not to scream in exasperation, I mean. The serial killer was right in front of her, wide open! Clearly, instead of weeping like a moron, she could be lunging forward and administering a swift uppercut to the chin. Then this entire pointless ordeal would be over with, and I could go home.

James Patterson

Home is wherever we all are together.

James McBride

People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.

Ellsworth Huntington

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

Ellsworth Huntington

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

Ellsworth Huntington

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.

Ellis Peters

as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

Ellis Peters

Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.

Elmore Leonard

I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.

Ellen Swallow Richards

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

Ellen Swallow Richards

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

Ella Maillart

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

Ella Fitzgerald

When I'm on stage I feel at home

David Lereah

A modest slowdown in home sales, coupled with improvements in the housing inventory, means the market is in the process of normalization.

Charles Schumer

And for some people, the proposal would benefit. But other people, the proposal would increase their taxes, because there's a cut-off. And if your home is worth about $200,000, and that's a lot of very middle-class homes in Western New York, you're stuck.

Edward Weston

I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.

Edward Coke

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].

Edward Coke

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.