I’m pretty much an isolated person. I’d rather stay home and play video games.
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.
Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.
I was raised to think women had babies, stayed at home, and men worked. By the time I got ready to do it, I thought I had all the answers. Only somebody had changed the questions.
The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I’ll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
I like building houses, working as a carpenter, painting. You work with your hands to the best of your ability, and at the end of the day, you go home with some satisfaction: ‘I built that!’
What fashion has started from hackers? They have bad posture, and they don’t go out. I wish I had a hacker boyfriend – they stay at home up in the bedroom.
There’s a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It’s like a breath of fresh air.
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
I once joked in a book that there are three things you can’t do in life. You can’t beat the phone company, you can’t make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can’t go home again.
There’s nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.
There’s something really intimate about getting in drag in your bedroom in the safety of your own home.
I feel a lot of support from the people of Penrith and the Blue Mountains and will always remember the amazing welcome home I received after the London Olympics. But more importantly, it’s during hard times that Westies come together.
My 40th birthday I held in an old-age home. My 50th I had at Pravda before it opened in New York. My 60th I had at Pastis. For my 70th, I thought, ‘I don’t need to have a celebrity party this year. I’m going to go take my oldest, closest friends to Paris.’
I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters – a family, a home and a good name.
We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day – and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw.
I love sports because it takes me away from reality, and I tell people, ‘No matter how bad your life is, if you are having problems at home, you are having problems at work, that’s the beauty of sports.’
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
You need to have a home to go back to, whether it’s a hotel room or a barn. It’s only home when he’s there.
When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the ‘Ghost Rider’ comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn’t get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening – ‘How is this possible, this duality?’
Every player would love to play a tournament like the World Cup at home.
Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
I didn’t realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.
We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.
Crumpets for me are the quintessence of a British afternoon tea, the ideal winter warmer that would welcome me home from school.
Jews outside Israel live in permanent contradiction. I think they should come home.
I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
The home should be the treasure chest of living.
At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.
My dad lived a good life. He was a simple guy. His family had been poor, and he joined the Marines to be able to send money home to his mom and dad and brothers and sisters. He genuinely had the intention to live a good life and to respect other people.
I’m a real Suzy Homemaker.
I had been taught that if I cried, to be quiet about it, so whereas I never howled, the least thing made me cry both at school and at home. Crying tends to separate a child from other children, for even children dislike a cry baby, and I had no friends in the world.
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.
It’s incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is – they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents… and they’re excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
I grew up in a very spiritual home in a Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, FL. I was raised in the church, and my mother was a very inspirational person in my life.
If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.
I can stand in a crystal stream without another human around me and cast all day long, and if I never catch a single fish, I can come home and still feel like I had a wonderful time. It’s the being there that’s important.
Digital world is changing its home, and I am in search of an evolution that exists beyond the digital world.
If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck.
If you stop being scared, that’s when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
When United play at home, they get some advantage that other teams don’t get. I think when you go to United, Madrid, Barcelona, or Milan, when the referees referee these kind of games, it’s always difficult to go against these kind of teams.
Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they’ll come home at night to take it off.
Push-ups are seriously the best way to tone your arms – and they tone your abs at the same time! I like to do them when I’m home watching TV or listening to music.
When you’re doing movies, you’re traveling all over the world and you really can’t be home.
For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive – and thrive. ‘Harsh’ to us is ‘home’ for them. Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.
Where thou art, that is home.
In the playoffs, it’s win or go home. You might not have a chance to look back at a game and say, ‘Man, we didn’t box out here.’
I took home the pattapatti underwear that I wore in ‘Paruthiveeran’ for nostalgia’s sake.
I’m happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that’s a treat.
‘Yellow Moon’ was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel – she’s dead now – it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I’m home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
I feel at home in an orchestral score.
Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.
It’s easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Whether it’s with my engineers in the team, my home life, or my friends, I don’t like things to get complicated – and one good example would be the steering wheel in my Mercedes Formula 1 car.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
