Famous Quotes & Sayings

Buddy Guy

Blues is like American Express. I don't leave home without it.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

What can government do? They can listen to their own people. But I'll tell you what citizens can do, when we elect one of these people - whether we think it's a good guy or a bozo - you got to stay on the case. You don't vote and go home and give them the keys to the car, he'll drive you right off a cliff. You have to help people to stay honest.

Bryan Ferry

At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

Bryan Ferry

I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.

Cesare Pavese

Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.

Caroline Dhavernas

You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that.

Caroline B. Cooney

But I found my family. I found the right thing to do. I found the way home.

Carolina Herrera

I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life.

Carlos Slim

You have to have an international reference of competition. You have to go beyond your home.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it. In Los Angeles, it is quite the opposite: it is an older city than it might seem to be, but you don't perceive this -- every day you get out of your home, you are driving somewhere and sometimes you get this impression that everything was put there the night before.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.

Campbell Newman

We should look at the Twitter records of Andrew Fraser. Clearly, the ship was on remote control, because he spent all of his time on Twitter. He used to Twitter in the chamber. He used to Twitter at night. He used to Twitter probably in bed at home, but I am not going to go any further there.

Camille Paglia

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

Calamity Jane

We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

Calamity Jane

When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.

Caitlin Moran

One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.

Caitlin Moran

In my family, my fat family, none of us ever say the word 'fat.' 'Fat' is the word you hear shouted on the playground or in the street - it's never allowed over the threshold of the house. My mum won't have that filth in her house. At home together, we are safe. ... There will be no harm to our feelings here because we never acknowledge fat exists. We never refer to our size. We are the elephants in the room.

C. J. Cherryh

The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.

C. L. R. James

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

Bryan Batt

We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.

Bryan Batt

People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there's no one way. It's your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It's your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it.

Bryan Fuller

When I'm at home and I'm preparing my own food, it's all gluten-free, or fish and it's healthy, but when I go to someone else's house, I'll eat what they put in front of me because I don't want to be an asshole.

Bryan Fuller

International broadcasters are often dependent on an American home broadcasting network, so it changes the game entirely.

Casey Affleck

I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days.

Casey Stengel

There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand.

We started doing it at home and quickly realized it's not cost-effective, and it was too labor-intensive.

We split with Hartford during the regular season, with the home team winning each time. They play strong defense, and we will need to pressure them.

Where I make a living, there is my home

William Shakespeare

That is my home of love: if I have ranged, Like him that travels I return again, Just to the time, not with the time exchanged.

Luis von Ahn

Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research during college. I went home and watched TV the whole day for three months; it was really awesome.

Nigel Barker

In life, you don't judge people on how they are at home, you judge them on how they are at work.

Louis C. K.

If you have something to say, here's what you do: You write it down on a piece of paper, you go out in the lobby, and then you go home and you kill yourself.