Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Folds

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.

Carl Sandburg

An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.

Carey Mulligan

I'm not going to work for the sake of working. I'll work, if I'm extraordinarily lucky enough to continue having the same opportunities, but it will be based on whatever is there. If there's nothing around, then I'll go home and make carrot cake for awhile.

Cameron Diaz

I had many years where I just worked from film to film to film. And then all of a sudden I went: "Where did I put my bags down? Where's my little place I call home?"

C. S. Lewis

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

C. S. Lewis

Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going tobring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, "You must do this. I can't.

C. S. Lewis

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it while really it is finding its place in him. His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work build up in him a sense of being really at home on earth which is just what we want.

Miley Cyrus

I'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me.

We've seen all the teams once. We have some of the better teams at home this time. We're looking at that No. 2 seed in the regional.

Celia Rivenbark

Jehovah's Witness are welcomed into my home...You gotta respect anybody who gets all dressed up in Sunday clothes and goes door-to-door on days so hot their high heels sink a half-inch into the pavement.The trick is to do all the talking yourself. Pretty soon, they'll look at their watches and say, 'Speaking of end times, wouldja look at what time it is now!

Celia Imrie

If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!

Celine Dion

I don't listen to my own music at home.

Celine Dion

At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.

Cesar Chavez

Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost - and the time to account for past sins is approaching.

Catherine Opie

I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.

Carrot Top

I have a home in Orlando. That's kind of my default 'getaway' city.

Carrot Top

I do go through a mini depression because one minute there are people yelling and screaming for me on stage and the next I'm at home and it's dead quiet. So it takes a while to come down.

Carrot Top

I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.

Carson McCullers

I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?

Carson McCullers

I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.

Carol Burnett

there were times when I was more at home in front of millions of people than I was at home.

Carl T. Rowan

We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). WE can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail-period!

Alan Cumming

When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

Alain Ducasse

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

Alain de Botton

We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery.

Alain de Botton

What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.

Alain de Botton

what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happiness

Alain de Botton

It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.

Alain de Botton

We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.

Al Franken

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

Al Franken

Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.

Susan Wojcicki

My kids know I'm home every night for dinner.

Tom Daschle

My leadership allows me to get a lot done for my home state.