Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Nick Hornby

Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.

Nick Hornby

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

Nick Hornby

Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There's a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music.

Matt Bomer

To me, when you're at a hotel and your home environment is ultimately dictated by somebody else, I always find that a little bit oppressive and scary in a way.

Matt Bomer

I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home.

Matt Damon

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

Mary Lou Williams

One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

Mary Matalin

Rule number one: Never make anyone uncomfortable in your home-even morons.

Mary-Louise Parker

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

Marvin J. Ashton

A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person is desensitized and is unable to react in a sensitive, caring, responsible manner, especially to those in his own home and family. Good people can become infested with this material and it can have terrifying, destructive consequences.

Marvin J. Ashton

All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home.

Mark Twain

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

Mark Twain

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

Mark Twain

By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

Mark Twain

Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

Marian Keyes

I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.

Nicholas Sparks

A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home

Nicholas Sparks

Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day.

Nicholas Sparks

God is out there watching you, even when you're away from home and that if you put your trust in God, you'll be all right in the end.

Nicholas Sparks

I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.

Nawal El Saadawi

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

Nawal El Saadawi

We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.

Neal A. Maxwell

As parenting declines, the need for policing increases. There will always be a shortage of police if there is a shortage of effective parents! Likewise, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

Neal A. Maxwell

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

Neal A. Maxwell

Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

Neal A. Maxwell

Good homes are still the best source of good humans.

Neal A. Maxwell

Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.

Natasha Lyonne

My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.

Muhammad Ali

Home is the place you can go when you're whipped.

Muhammad Ali

You may talk about Sweden, you may talk about Rome, but Rockville Center's Floyd Patterson's home. A lot of people said that Floyd couldn't fight, but you should have seen him on the comeback night.

Mitch McConnell

I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.