Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Theroux

Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

Paul Theroux

All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

Paul Krugman

And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.

Paul Davies

No planet is more earth-like than Earth itself, so if life really does pop up readily in earth-like conditions, then surely it should have arisen many times right here on our home planet? And how do we know it didn't? The truth is, nobody has looked.

Patrick Swayze

I'm not afraid of death. I'm going home.

Patrick Swayze

When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.

Patrick Stewart

At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable - and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.

Patrick Duffy

There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.

John Scott

It's basically a home-rule issue. I think the governing authority that appoints people as assessors certainly has reasons for doing it. ... And it certainly ought to be the board of assessors' right to say who is best qualified to serve as an appraiser.

John Phillips

It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.

John Perry Barlow

I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

John Piper

Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.

Martin Milner

Three days a week and Im home at the ranch in Fallbrook with my avocados.

Martin O'Malley

Our role in the world is not to roam the globe looking for new dictators to topple. Our role in the world is to make ourselves a beacon of hope. Make ourselves stronger at home, but also our role in the world, yes, is also to confront evil when it rises.

Martin Luther

The worship of God....should be free at table, in private rooms, downstairs, upstairs, at home, abroad, in all places, by all peoples, at all times

Mark Strong

I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

Mark Teixeira

My closet is in perfect order at home. All my dress shirts, all my casual shirts. All my suits, they're color coordinated. All my ties are color coordinated.

Mark Steyn

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

Mark Noble

People who renovate and improve homes are penalized by being taxed more for creating value and improving the neighborhood.

Marilyn Horne

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

Marilyn Hacker

Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.

Nick Harkaway

Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.

Nick Cave

I don't really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?

Nancy Grace

If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.

Mortimer Zuckerman

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

Missy Elliot

What my home life is like now is great.

P. J. O'Rourke

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

Ovid

The brave find a home in every land.

Paul Newman

On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

Paul Newman

I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?

Matt Groening

The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other, and then I can just go home, and they don't know.

Matt Groening

How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?

Masaharu Morimoto

I buy soy sauce and flavor it five different ways: with sake, mirin, sugar, kombu and bonito flakes. I use them on lots of dishes at home.