Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Robertson

Like it or not, males have a tendency to wander a little bit. What you want to do is make a home so wonderful that he doesn’t want to wander.

P. T. Barnum

Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched.

P. T. Barnum

Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen different subjects at once.

P. J. O'Rourke

We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of criminalization. We'd rather work ourselves into a screaming fit of puritanism and then go home and take a pill.

P. J. O'Rourke

Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.

Mary Randolph

If there’s a place for it in your heart, there’s a place for it in your home.

Mary Schapiro

I work on weekends, but from home.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it, what are picnics but outcroppings of instinct? No one really enjoys them or expects to enjoy them, but with the first warm days some prehistoric instinct takes us out into the woods, to fry potatoes over a strangling wood fire or spend the next week getting grass stains out of our clothes. It must be instinct; every atom of intelligence warns us to stay at home near the refrigerator.

Mary Baker Eddy

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.

Martin Feldstein

Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like.

Martin Gore

I love being in the studio. If I'm at home, I will go to the studio pretty much every day anyway. It's just something that I like to do.

Martin Freeman

I love home. I'd rather be at home than anywhere else.

Martin Freeman

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

Martin Heidegger

We would like only, for once, to get to where we are already.

Martin Heidegger

From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has only emerged when human beings had a home and were rooted in a tradition. Today's literature is, for instance, largely destructive.

Martin Heidegger

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.

Martin Heidegger

The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken.

Martin Heidegger

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

Mark Mothersbaugh

I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

Nikki Haley

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

Nikki Sanderson

I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the back of the queue. I never once assumed I could just walk in.

Nikki Sixx

There's nothin like a trail of ßlooÐ to finÐ your way ßack home

Nikki Sixx

when you can’t climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home…

Nicole Polizzi

I always wanted my own fragrance because I could never find the right scent for me. At home, I would always mix bottles of my favorite fragrances to create a unique and different scent.

Nicole Richie

Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs.

Nicole Richie

The great thing about The Simple Life is that it's a reality show but not based on my reality, ... It has nothing to do with my life or my home or my relationships or anything. I'm not open to anything like that.

Nicki Minaj

Nothing is worse than going home and having not played a gig.

Nick Park

I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

Nick Rhodes

Having a studio at home is like having a gym at home - sometimes you're just better off going out.

Nick Offerman

It was on a van ride home from the movie set that everything came together. I realized I had to get off Twitter. It just struck me that I couldn't stop everyone else from doing it, but I could certainly stop myself.

Nick Offerman

If you like comedy, go home and curl up with Leviticus. The writers of The Onion are handed Leviticus on their first day.

Nick Offerman

If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.

Nick Hornby

I'd stay there, or not, and I'd eat, or not, and I'd drink, or not, and go home, or not, and what I did or didn't do wouldn't matter to anyone at all. And I walked for most of the day. Do people get sad on holiday sometimes? I can imagine they do, having all that time to think.