Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Lawrence

When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential neighborhoods so long that when one of us is finally sold a home, it's already depreciated.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

Mark Victor Hansen

Your mind is the greatest home entertainment center ever created. It requires contemplative silence to really discover who you truly are. You have immense talents, resources and abilities that are untapped.

Mark Wahlberg

I've got a pretty wide range of stuff that I'm interested in in life. But producing it gives me a lot more time at home to spend with my family as opposed to being away on location shooting nights for months at a time.

Mark Krikorian

Well, because we're talking here about people who've been ordered deported and the administration has done nothing about actually making sure that they go home. This is theater, I think, for two audiences - one probably for the American public to some degree, to make it seem as though the administration is taking this renewed surge of Central Americans seriously.

Mark Hopkins

Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home.

Maria Edgeworth

Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!

Mike Catt

Brian seemed to be in a state of confusion. I thought of packing my bags and going home. The squad seemed to me to be rudderless.

Mike Colter

I worked at a group home for a survival job years ago, and kids who have a rough home life have always tugged at my heart-strings. I also care a lot about animal cruelty.

Miguel de Unamuno

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

Nicholas D. Kristof

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

Ned Beauman

If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set of Schopenhauer at home.

Nathan Sawaya

When people go to museums and see a sculpture made out of marble, they appreciate it but it's very doubtful that they will go home and have a slab of marble they can chip away at, but people do have LEGO. I don't have any LEGO specially made for me, all of the shapes, sizes and colours I use are available in stores so that if someone is inspired to create on their own, they can go and buy the very same bricks.

Nathan Myhrvold

We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.

Nathan Myhrvold

A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks at Home Depot. And there's a ton of things that you can use a blowtorch for, in browning a steak or touching up the browning of a chicken or making creme brulee.

Naomi Klein

And if there is one thing we can be sure of, it’s that extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and the British floods—disasters that, combined, pummeled coastlines beyond recognition, ravaged millions of homes, and killed many thousands—are going to keep coming.

Nadia Giosia

We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.

Nadine Gordimer

I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.

Naguib Mahfouz

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

Naguib Mahfouz

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

Mitt Romney

For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.

Miriam Makeba

It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now.

R. A. Torrey

The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and consequently with the results of his or her labors, as the missionary.

R. Buckminster Fuller

...primarily the individual is going to study at home.

Pras Michel

I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do.

Pras Michel

Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.

Potter Stewart

For the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. But what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected.

Potter Stewart

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

Poppy Z. Brite

I like visiting peoples homes on Saint Josephs Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.

Portia de Rossi

I was trying to find a reason for having had to escape from the place that was my home. To convince myself of my choices, I had to make it a place that everyone should want to escape from.

Portia de Rossi

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.