Quotes with home-maker

Quotes 221 till 240 of 488.

  • Barbara Lynn In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
    Barbara Lynn
     
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  • Bruno Mars In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Emma Goldman In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Samuel Johnson In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Dale Carnegie Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Alan Cohen Inner peace: Don't leave home without it.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Plato Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bud Abbott It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?
    Bud Abbott
    American comedian and actor (1897 - 1974)
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  • Carson McCullers It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Amartya Sen It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • Betty Friedan It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Ezra Pound It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Carl Rowan It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • James Thurber It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Anita Brookner It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Betsy Brandt It'd be great to do some other TV. 'Breaking Bad' is definitely my home, but I'd love to have a nice hiatus gig, like a recurring role. Or to do a good film. I'd like to do a Woody Allen movie. I really didn't have a plan, and that's okay with me.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Billy Mays It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.
    Billy Mays
    American television direct-response advertisement salesperson (1958 - 2009)
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