Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Solomon

There is no question that abuse, drugs and exposure to violence at home can exacerbate someone's criminal tendencies enormously. But there are many, many criminals who don't come from that background.

Andre Rieu

When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.

Ameen Rihani

True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.

Andrew Eldritch

I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

Andrew Flintoff

That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?

Andrew Dice Clay

I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant,

Ambrose Bierce

MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.

Ambrose Bierce

Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

Anthony Hopkins

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.

Anthony Hopkins

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

Anthony Hopkins

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patience for them. It's maybe shallow, but that's why I'll never be part of the acting set.

Anthony Hopkins

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

Alisher Usmanov

My home is in Moscow and I have no plans to change this.

Alisher Usmanov

It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia.

Alice Sebold

How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?

Alice Walker

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Alice Morse Earle

Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.

Alice Miller

Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fan­tasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is not a homecoming, since this home has never before existed. It is the creation of home.

Alice Hamilton

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

Anne Heche

The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Yesterday I sat in a field of violets for a long time perfectly still, until I really sank into it - into the rhythm of the place, I mean - then when I got up to go home I couldn't walk quickly or evenly because I was still in time with the field.

Anne Lamott

For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.

Anne Lamott

I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home alone, orbiting my own mind. And it's good to be out where others can see you, so you can't be your ghastly spoiled self. It forces you to act slightly more elegantly, and this improves your thoughts, and thereby the world.

Anne Lamott

I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition and in a lot of cases people need alcohol or drugs to create poetry and poetic pose that can take you so far out there where you are still able to recognize yourself and then to bring you back home where you're not the same person you were when you left.

Amy Weber

I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.

Amy Waldman

Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the American economy since, ought to have eased her worries about failing to climb as high as she believed she deserved. But the money was his, not theirs. The unspoken power this gave him kept her from asking: Why don't you stay home?

Amy Winehouse

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

Amy Winehouse

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

Amanda Crew

I'm still vegetarian - no, pescatarian, because I eat fish. I eat pretty much vegan at home, but when I'm on the road, I'm a bit more flexible. That was the kind of thing I learned as I got older - being flexible with it and listening to my body.

Amanda Harlech

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

Amanda Burton

I couldn't imagine a home without animals.

Amanda Bynes

When you're doing movies, you're traveling all over the world and you really can't be home.

Allen West

I'm not going to sit at home and eat popcorn,