Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Garland

I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.

Alec Baldwin

Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.

Aldous Huxley

...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

Aldous Huxley

Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.

Albert Einstein

Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.

Alexander Hanson

Although I dont know Oslo at all, there is something about the feel or the smell of the place that feels like home, which is quite interesting.

Ben Bernanke

Well, the U.S., of course, is the world's largest economy. It's about a quarter of the world's output. It's also home to many of the largest financial institutions and financial markets.

John O'Keefe

What I tend to do is I try and get as much writing done... I get as much writing done at home before I go into work.

Suzy Amis

What I really wanted to do, actually, was stay home and be a mom and have some more kids.

Alexander Ludwig

I am always working out, whether I am on vacation or at home. When in La Jolla, I like to surf, play tennis, and golf - but surfing is definitely my favorite.

Alexander Pope

The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

Alexander Pope

Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

Alexander Pope

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

Alexa Chung

Looking effortless takes a lot of effort. When I get new Converse I dedicate some time at home to shoving mud on them so they don't look squeaky clean.

Debi Mazar

Sitting down at the table is a sacred event. It's the heart of the home. People have ginormous homes or crappy little homes, but the kitchen is where we always end up sitting. It's where the stories happen, the family happens.

Debby Ryan

I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.

E. L. Konigsburg

Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.

E. Stanley Jones

Be victorious in the home, and you are victorious everywhere.

E. O. Wilson

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.

Drew Barrymore

I'm certainly not an uptight home owner.

Douglas Sirk

I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.

Douglas MacArthur

The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.

Douglas Rushkoff

The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.

Doug Liman

What I really found was that the one similarity between Covert Affairs and Fair Game is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.

Dorothy Thompson

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

Donna Karan

Assuming I'm home and don't have an event, I'll have a massage or I'll talk on the phone.

Donna Karan

I feel at home most places I go, but my very top of the list are Bali, Italy, and London. Those are like second homes to me.

Donald Barthelme

Take me home," Snow White said. "Take me home instantly. If there is anything worse than being home, it is being out.

Don DeLillo

To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.

Donatella Versace

I go from a full working day to making sure I am home for dinner with my kids. I couldn't do that in a 10cm mini skirt but I am not going to resort to sweatpants and an old t-shirt.

Dylan McDermott

When I'm playing a serial killer, I'm in it. I'm not judging him. I'm not judging his environment. I'm just looking for the why. Why is he the way he is? But, there's no doubt that, if you're a good actor, you're going to take this stuff home with you.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Douglas Booth

I live by myself, which I love. In this industry, you're so often surrounded by people and busy and talking to people. It's kind of lovely when you get home to just chill out.