Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leon Uris

Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.

Joyce Maynard

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

Joyce Maynard

[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.

Joyce Maynard

Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.

Joyce Maynard

A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.

Joyce Maynard

A good home must be made, not bought.

Joseph Wambaugh

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

Josephine Hart

Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.

Josephine Hart

There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines in our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it, ease like water over a stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home.

Joseph Wood Krutch

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

Karl Pilkington

Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.

Karl Pilkington

It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.

Juliette Binoche

When I'm in the movie, I'm entirely in the movie. When I'm on the set, I'm 200 per cent there; when I'm at home, I'm 200 per cent at home.

Juliette Binoche

I am not a woman staying at home.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

John Masefield

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

John Mayer

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

John Linder

The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.

John Lennon

I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.

John Lennon

Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.

John Landgraf

I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.

John Lasseter

Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans.

John L. Lewis

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.

John L. Lewis

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.

John L. Lewis

While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

Jodie Foster

I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.

Jimmy Chamberlin

When I'm at home I practice everyday.

Jimmy Carr

If I'm at home for the weekend - and that is almost never - I tend to get twitchy at about eight o'clock in the evening because my body clock is timed to go on stage. I don't know what to do with myself.

Jimmy Buffett

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

Jim Rash

Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.

Jim Ramstad

The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers.

Jim Ramstad

In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety.

Jim Ramstad

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.