Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilfrid Sheed

As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives.

Wilfred Owen

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

Wilfred Owen

Soldiers may grow a soul when turned to fronds, But here the thing's best left at home with friends.

Washington Allston

Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.

Warren Zevon

Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home.

Warren Zevon

Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

Waylon Jennings

I can't walk, so I can't go home. No need to talk, cause I'm all alone. If I stay here they're gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.

W. Somerset Maugham

Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.

Vladimir Nabokov

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Vladimir Nabokov

One is always at home in one's past...

Yotam Ottolenghi

It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years we spent living there. Yet we still think of Jerusalem as our home. Not home in the sense of the place that you conduct your daily life or constantly return to. In fact, Jerusalem is our home almost against our wills. It is our home because it defines us, whether we like it or not.

Yoko Ono

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

The key of 'The Earth from Above,' and of 'Home' is to show the beauty of the planet, and thereby to promote love for it.

Yakov Smirnoff

I came to America to make it my home, and I did.

Yann Martel

If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, Go! You are free! Free as a bird! Go! Go! - do you think they would shout and dance for joy? They wouldn't. Birds are not free. The people you've just evicted would sputter, With what right do you throw us out? This is our home. We own it. We have lived here for years. We're calling the police, you scoundrel.

Wolf Blitzer

Almost every day I wrap up my two-hour live broadcast and I say to myself as I'm driving home, 'I wish I would've done this' or 'We really should have gone live longer with this segment.

Wolfgang Puck

I have two young boys, and my wife is at home. Most of the time, I will cook the food, and we'll eat together.

Wolfgang Puck

I tell everybody the same thing: You have to make every dish so when you taste it, you should remember it when you go home.

William Peter Blatty

You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism...

William Osler

It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.

William O. Douglas

The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.

William Makepeace Thackeray

An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.

Yelawolf

My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.

Yann Tiersen

Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, OK, its the first of recording this album. I like to avoid that.

YaYa DaCosta

I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

Zoe McLellan

The cause I am most passionate about is natural birthing. I had my son at home, and it was the most primal, intuitive, empowering, and loving experience I've ever had.

Zoe Kravitz

Well, at home, I'm in sweatpants, I'm not wearing any makeup, and I'm not standing with my hand on my hip while smiling. [Laughs] I try to be honest in interviews, but obviously you have to be careful about everything you say and do when you're being recorded. I'm much more comfortable and quieter at home.

Zell Miller

I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home.

Zadie Smith

I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.

Zadie Smith

It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with every draught in the house; people brought it home on their shoes, they breathed it in off their newspapers. There was no way to control it.