Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Hornby

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

Nick Hornby

Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There's a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music.

Matt Bomer

To me, when you're at a hotel and your home environment is ultimately dictated by somebody else, I always find that a little bit oppressive and scary in a way.

Matt Bomer

I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home.

Matt Damon

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

Mary Lou Williams

One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

Mary Matalin

Rule number one: Never make anyone uncomfortable in your home-even morons.

Mary-Louise Parker

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

Marvin J. Ashton

A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person is desensitized and is unable to react in a sensitive, caring, responsible manner, especially to those in his own home and family. Good people can become infested with this material and it can have terrifying, destructive consequences.

Marvin J. Ashton

All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home.

Mark Twain

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

Mark Twain

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

Mark Twain

By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

Mark Twain

Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

Marian Keyes

I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.

Nicholas Sparks

A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home

Nicholas Sparks

Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day.

Nicholas Sparks

God is out there watching you, even when you're away from home and that if you put your trust in God, you'll be all right in the end.

Nicholas Sparks

I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.

John Green

So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her. I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.

John Green

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.

John Green

Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.

John Green

You're amazing, and I so want to be your boyfriend, because of what you just said, and also because that shirt makes me want to take you home and do unspeakable things while we watch live-action Sailor Moon videos

John Green

You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home?" "No, sir," Gus said. "We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water.

Pat Robertson

Like it or not, males have a tendency to wander a little bit. What you want to do is make a home so wonderful that he doesn’t want to wander.

P. T. Barnum

Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched.

P. T. Barnum

Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen different subjects at once.

P. J. O'Rourke

We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of criminalization. We'd rather work ourselves into a screaming fit of puritanism and then go home and take a pill.

P. J. O'Rourke

Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.

P. J. O'Rourke

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

Ovid

The brave find a home in every land.

Paul Newman

On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

Paul Newman

I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?