Nobody Home Quotes

#1. The secret knowledge is there's nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried to get together and thrash out a contract under which they could get together that would keep people together.

David Mamet

#2. I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn't there. There was nobody home.

Robert Goolrick

#3. Nobody home but She for Whom I Am the World. Can't go on like this, can't keep doing it.- Jericho Barrons

Karen Marie Moning

#4. A girl phoned me the other day and said, 'Come on over. There's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

Rodney Dangerfield

#5. There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.

Frederick Lenz

#6. When I kissed Brooks, it was like I'd been stun-gunned. But I was still conscious."
Debbie Mae's eyebrows had gone way up. "Awake but nobody home?"
"Well, maybe awake but somebody home with really, really bad judgment.

Mary Jane Hathaway

#7. When I looked in her eyes they were blue but nobody home.

David Bowie

#8. Well, she sure don't hold the deed on grief and loss, son. We all been mussed and mauled by bad times. But that girl's done gone and shut down. I met gray people with more personality." She tapped her temple with a finger. "I'm beginning to suspect there ain't nobody home.

Jonathan Maberry

#9. Come back home with me, Princess."
"Why?"
"I bought new glasess. And plates. There's nobody there to throw them at me.

Zoya Tessi

#10. Nobody's home. Don't answer the door during working hours unless you're waiting for a special delivery. Use a peephole if you need to know.

Eileen Roth

#11. What does it signify how we dress here at Cranford, where everybody knows us?" And if they go from home, their reason is equally cogent, "What does it signify how we dress here, where nobody knows us?

Elizabeth Gaskell

#12. There's a place I travel when I want to roam, and nobody knows it but me./The roads don't go there and the signs stay home, and nobody knows it but me./ It's far, far away and way, way afar, it's over the moon and the sea/and wherever you're going that's wherever you are./And nobody knows it but me.

Patrick O'Leary

#13. To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

Doug Liman

#14. Nobody had books at home. My dad was a very educated person, so he would have books at home. All Spanish books. That helped. Most of my homies had no books at home.

Luis J. Rodriguez

#15. Marriage, home life, and children, ought to be enjoyed by men and women together. Nobody - and least of all the child - is served by the present tendency to put these things all on one side as 'Woman's World.

Alva Myrdal

#16. God's Doorbell [10w]
Earth is God's doorbell,
unfortunately, half the time
nobody's home.

Beryl Dov

#17. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Because nobody knows you.

Anna Nicole Smith

#18. Some kids are so depressed at home and with how people treat them in school that they cut themselves. This happens all over the world - kids who don't want to kill themselves, but nobody understands how much they hurt, so they cut themselves with razor blades.

Chester Bennington

#19. After a while I get the feeling that Mum and Brian aren't home. Kane either. It's because the house is making so much noise; ticking and creaking as it stretches in the sun. Acting like a house does when nobody's around to see it. It must have forgotten about me.

Kirsty Eagar

#20. I'm lost in space and I want to find a way home. Nobody else can get me back to the planet, so I have to do it myself.

Susan Vaught

#21. It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!

Ann Radcliffe

#22. There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home - there's a necessary degree of secrecy.

Katy Grannan

#23. All I can tell you is what I see at home- a lot of lessons learned from '86. That, 'OK, we'll go one-time amnesty and after that we'll really be good.' But nobody believes it this time, nobody believes it.

Michael C. Burgess

#24. For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.

Anne Lamott

#25. I think I'm becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose I'll always feel slightly more at home on stage. It's more of an actor's medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you.

Michael Sheen

#26. My talent speaks for itself, I ain't gotta answer nobody else's questions. I'm going home, we're gonna have a party!

James Toney

#27. Brown pulled the bag closer to his side. He had nothing but good memories from his time overseas. That's the truth nobody knew. Since coming home he'd been labeled a baby-killer and a murderer, and things had been bad enough for him and his family when he went into the military.

Sheldon Lee Compton

#28. With all due respect to UPS - it's a fine company - nobody cares about logistics. They care about that package arriving at their home, at their office, when it is supposed to and in the condition it's supposed to. FedEx is a much better communicator than UPS.

Frank Luntz

#29. To be the first player to do it three consecutive years (fifty or more home runs), you go back through the thousands of power hitters who played this game and nobody has ever done it, and I can sit here and say I'm the first. I'm pretty proud of that.

Mark McGwire

#30. [In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever tried to call them at home before.

Ross Perot

#31. Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't ... Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.

Philip K. Dick

#32. Calm down, I'm calling you to say I'm capsized, staring on the edge of safe. Calm down, I'm calling back to say I'm home now I,m coming around, coming around nobody likes to but I really like to cry nobody likes me maybe if I cry.

Tegan Quin

#33. Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.

Alison Espach

#34. The tech folks have seen WiFi as the way to untether. And what better reason to untether than entertainment content? So there's nobody better positioned than the in-home Wi-Fi purveyor.

Henry Blodget

#35. I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs ... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave.

Monica Potter

#36. My love life is nobody's business ... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.

Julianna Margulies

#37. I looked over the despondency of the home crowd. Fools! Fools! I thought. Love it! Love the loss as well as the gain. Go home and dig it. Nobody was killed. We saw victory and defeat, and they were both wonderful.

Barry Hannah

#38. It's good way to relax when I come home from the road. When you're out there on the tractor there's nobody to bother you.

Sterling Marlin

#39. Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means ... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.

Rupert Sheldrake

#40. It wasn't all that different from any particularly demanding boarding school, except that of course nobody ever went home for the holidays and we had a lot of brain surgery.

Kage Baker

#41. No matter what happens, God is in control, and your home is with Him. Nobody can ever take that away from you.

Grant Carroll

#42. I realise now that I wanted to disappear. To get so lost that nobody ever found me. To go so far away that I'd never be able to make my way home again. But I have no idea why.

Jessica Warman

#43. You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.

Johnny Vegas

#44. What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.

Vicente Fox

#45. She wants to go home, but nobody's home. That's why she lies, broken inside. With no place to go, no place to go, to dry her eyes, broken inside ...

Avril Lavigne

#46. I've been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system - it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes.

Joel Spolsky

#47. Jackie Robinson stole home and he's safe."...Nobody could hurt him again. He wouldn't hear the name-calling. He would only hear the cheers and somehow I could fantasize my own little story about where he was and how he was doing and let him rest in peace.

Ken Burns

#48. Love is the cage and the cage is closed and the door is locked and nobody's home.

Ashraf Siddiqui

#49. Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home.

Steve Case

#50. Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.

James Lee Burke

#51. I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home.

Judy Holliday

#52. I don't think of design as a job. I think of it as - and I hate to use this term for it - more of a calling. If you're just doing it because it's a nice job and you want to go home and do something else, then don't do it, because nobody needs what you're going to make.

Paula Scher

#53. ... there's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you're special, even though you know you're not.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#54. After school, I'd wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I'd be like, 'I guess I'll walk home.' I had to be a hustler, because nobody did anything for me.

Whitney Cummings

#55. Nobody wants to say, "I'm trying to get my feet on the ground" when they're in their twenties. They want you to think they're about to do something dangerous, or exciting, or different. We're not "living at home," we're "crashing until we can afford a pad in Brooklyn.

Alida Nugent

#56. Most of the time the ones who dislike the pictures the most confirm to me that the picture has hit home and is probably truer than I know. Nobody minds a boring picture, they mind a picture that has gotten to the soft core.

Irving Penn

#57. What made you think of Dill?" she asked. "I don't know. Just thought of him." "You never liked him, did you?" Henry smiled. "I was jealous of him. He had you and Jem to himself all summer long, while I had to go home the day school was out. There was nobody at home to fool around with.

Harper Lee

#58. I should of known he was married. I mean, nobody that young is THAT bald unless he's got a wife at home.

Robert Asprin

#59. Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.

Malala Yousafzai

#60. Nobody in college races home and says, 'I can't wait to see the news! I can't wait to see who CBS is going to hire!'

Lewis Black

#61. Nobody's going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it.

Michael Bloomberg

#62. In this life, nobody has forever in which to leave home, to return, to make a new home, or to open the door to someone. Death doesn't wait while we tidy everything up. And there are several kinds of dying.

Jean Little

#63. What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

Louis L'Amour

#64. I'm always afraid, because I do most of my stuff at home, where nobody bothers me, and I don't have to stroke somebody's ego or be careful about hurting someone's feelings. But I also want to know that I can still go into the world and be with other people and make music.

Jack White

#65. Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody's home, then I despise my own life - my birth, my upbringing, everything.

Banana Yoshimoto

#66. 'Can you imagine, 30 years ago, saying nobody will make coffee at home?' Nancy McGuckin, a travel researcher in Washington, D.C.

Tom Vanderbilt

#67. This is something that I have learned at PA that I would have never learn at home because I have my own room and I'm an only. Nobody has it easy, not even the Great and Tall Blond One

Adriana Trigiani

#68. So Thomas Pynchon wants a private life and no photographs and nobody to know his home address. I can dig it, I can relate to that (but, like, he should try it when it's compulsory instead of a free-choice option).

Salman Rushdie

#69. Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

Garrison Keillor

#70. I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.

Gore Vidal

#71. Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.

Bruce Springsteen

#72. In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

Ken Harrelson

#73. All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to different houses and different families. Nobody ever noticed.

Ken Kesey

#74. I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.

Kathy Reichs

#75. At least Kyle wasn't home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.

Cassandra Clare

#76. I've always felt a bit hard done by in England - you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.

Kate Thompson

#77. I was in a place where nobody knew my heart even a little bit.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#78. Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.

Philip Gourevitch

#79. The fight migjt be over but nobody wins if you both go home in body bags.

Mikayla Nicole

#80. There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand.

Casey Stengel

#81. Nobody knows why you go to a picnic to be uncomfortable when it is so easy and pleasant to eat at home.

John Steinbeck

#82. No planet is more earth-like than Earth itself, so if life really does pop up readily in earth-like conditions, then surely it should have arisen many times right here on our home planet? And how do we know it didn't? The truth is, nobody has looked.

Paul Davies

#83. It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

Maria Edgeworth

#84. A set is created to make dance the crowd not for listening at home. A electronic set should only be heard in the party and when this party finishes the set shouldn't be heard for nobody, it should only be keeped on the mind of clubbers who were in the event.

Richie Hawtin

#85. We live in a day that nobody's lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I'll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It's just an amazing day.

Joel Osteen

#86. I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

David Attenborough

#87. Punk rock party in a suburban home/
everybody's famous here but nobody's known/

U2

#88. It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

#89. My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and our home was a shrine to all things English.

Mike Myers

#90. If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.

Adam Ferrara

#91. I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.

Anna Nicole Smith

#92. A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter.

L.M. Montgomery

#93. Nobody at home should feel like they are competing with somebody at work.

Andy Stanley

#94. I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.

Jodie Foster

#95. It made the Baudelaire sisters a little sad to see all those books sitting in the library unread and unnoticed, like stray dogs or lost children that nobody wanted to take home.

Lemony Snicket

#96. Nobody is going to invest a fortune into good orchard land, all the farming equipment necessary, the fertilizer, the seedlings, the nonstop Herculean work effort needed to grow apples, then bring them to the fruit stand for people to take home for free.

Ted Nugent