Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ryan Kwanten

I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target - and future.

Rose Macaulay

Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most of the impenetrable corners, the English will penetrate. They are like that; born invaders. They cannot stay at home.

Rose Macaulay

It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but fey in the paling dawn, desperately making the most of each bar of music before one went home to bed.

Rose McGowan

I was 13. And on my own for about 10 months, but those were long months. My stepdad wanted me out of his hair and tried to put me in a home, a hospital kind of place for kids with drug problems, which I absolutely did not belong in. So I left that place and struck out on my own .

Ron Atkinson

I'm afraid they've left their legs at home.

Umberto Eco

For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.

Umberto Eco

For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.

Tyler Florence

Locally produced foods - defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one's home - have a lesser impact on the environment because of the decreased need for transportation from source to consumer.

Tyler Cowen

Social systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his door and then turn you away, rather his home address is hard to find. The government handcuffs you so they don't have to shoot you trying to escape. And so on.

Tyler Hoechlin

I literally would have been the guy that would have played pro ball until they came to me and said, "Go home, you don't work here anymore."

Truman Capote

Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.

Trey Songz

In my dressing room, you'll definitely find some Starbursts and Skittles. I have a lot of candles that remind me of home, and a humidifier for my voice. I also have some digital Kodak albums where I have pictures of my friends and family.

Travis Pastrana

I really enjoy being home because that's where family is. No matter where you're from, it's hard to beat home.

Tre Cool

I’ve played on literally every brand of US drums out there, and I’ve finally found my home. I’ve been looking for drums like these my whole life. True American hot rod custom kits. From the look and sound to the service and attention, it’s good to now be a part of the SJC family.

Travis Barker

On tour, you never have a home, you don`t get used to anything, and you`re always super busy.

Rick Bragg

This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.

Rick Boucher

I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when Im travelling.

Reynolds Price

A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.

Rex Stout

Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.

Raymond Chandler

Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.

Rebecca Solnit

...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.

Rebecca Solnit

The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.

Rick Steves

Travel challenges truths that we were raised thinking were self-evident and God-given. Leaving home, we learn other people find different truths to be self-evident. We realize that it just makes sense to give everyone a little wiggle room.

Rick Steves

I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.

Rick Yancey

You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.

Rick Yancey

It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.

Rick Warren

We’re not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better.

Rick Riordan

Even Dionysus's welcome-home speech wasn't enough to dampen my spirits. "Yes, yes, so the little brat didn't get himself killed and now he'll have an even bigger head. Well, huzzah for that. In other announcements, there will be no canoe races this Saturday....

Patrick Dempsey

The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family

Paramahansa Yogananda

You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease have a lesson for us. Our painful experiences are not meant to destroy us, but to burn out our dross, to hurry us back Home. No one is more anxious for our release than God.

Owen Wilson

I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving.

Otto Lilienthal

We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

Oscar Pistorius

I've been followed home late at night. I've been shot at on the highway.