Famous Quotes & Sayings

Valentino Garavani

I am Valentino Rossi. If I stay in MotoGP it is to try to win. When that is not possible it is time to stay at home and work in the garden!

Valentino Garavani

When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them.

Valentino Rossi

I think the secret is to understand that you still want to be part of the game. To do so, you have to forget all the victories you've managed to get in the previous years and have a great humility. You also need to realise that, if you want to go on, you have to work hard. If you dwell too much on your past successes and say "well, I have won nine world titles and more than 100 races", you'd rather stay home.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.

Umberto Eco

It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.

Roger Angell

The press box at Wrigley Field in Chicago is an extended narrow shed, two rows deep, that is precariously bolted to the iron rafters just underneath the park's second deck. To gain access, one must climb a steeply angled ramp and clamber down a little starboard companionway, guarded at its foot by a uniformed minion and then proceed giddily along a catwalk that hangs directly above the tiered, circling rows of seats and spectators behind home plate.

Robyn Davidson

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

Robyn Davidson

And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them

Robin Williams

There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'.

Robin Gibb

I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.

Robert Vaughn

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.

Robert Rubin

Here at home, ... while the most likely scenario remains solid growth and low inflation -- subject to the usual ups and downs -- certain sectors have been impacted by the crisis, some because of increased imports and others because of decreased exports. Moreover, problems in the global economy do constitute a risk to all our overall economic well-being.

Robert Reich

Most Americans stopped looking at what was happening through a variety of coping mechanisms - starting with women entering paid work and then everyone working longer hours and using their homes for raising equity and generating more money through debt. The typical household basically staved off the day of reckoning.

Robert Reich

We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy?

Robert Redford

I would see my hometown, Los Angeles, change. Green space and orange groves gave way to cement, freeways flooded with traffic, and air pollution, all in the name of "progress." I felt like I was losing my home. It had a profound effect on me, and I realized just how important nature was to my spirit, my soul, my point of view.

Robert Nardelli

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Robert E. Lee

Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.

Robert Smith

Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.

Robert Quine

From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.

Robert Rauschenberg

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

Robert Plant

Well, when I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten year old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old... I think! And I always wanted to be a certain, a bit similar to that. But I didn't want to sell pizza.

Robert Plant

I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.

Robert M. Gates

One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home every weekend. They used to play golf together; their families got to know each other, go to dinner at each other's homes at weekends - and these would be people who were political adversaries.

Sasha Pieterse

I was home-schooled and I graduated super-early. But I've always had older friends, so I got to go to all their dances. I got the best of both worlds. I had the choice to go to prom with a friend of mine and I decided not to because I was filming very close to that. But red carpets and the 'G.B.F' prom were so much better.

Sasha Grey

I don't want to be looked at. I really want to be a home body.

Sarah Susanka

With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even our lives.

Sarah Sutton

I'm a terrible person for carrying things around. I carry everything around with me, it's like my home.

Sarah MacLean

Lord Nicholas St. John was their only hope, and she had been on the roof when he arrived, for heaven's sake. Ladies did not go traipsing about on rooftops. And certainly gentlemen did not frequent the homes of those ladies who did traipse about on roortops. It did not matter if the rooftop in question was in dire need of repair. Or that the lady in question had no choice.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.

Sara Paxton

I guess I can't live without Netflix because I would have nothing to do. All I do is sit home and watch movies.

Sara Paretsky

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.

Sandra Bernhard

I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.

Sandra Bernhard

If you come home to a household of chaos and anger and fear, you're not going to feel protected from the world.