Quotes of: Domestic-life Keyword

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

Seamus Heaney

I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

Anne-Marie Duff

Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog?

Lalla Ward

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.

Samuel Butler

I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

Nate Lowman

China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.

Zhang Jindong

In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.

Melissa Bean

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

Daisy Donovan

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

John F. Kennedy

I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.

Liberty Ross

Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix.

Michael Burgess

Internationally, I have as large of a fan base - if not larger - than I have domestically.

Wesley Snipes

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

Yoko Ono

What happened was that sometimes I was, from a young age, put in the theater to watch movies because they kept me quiet and they kept me entertained, and they got me out from under the feet of my parents. So from a very early age, I went to the movie...

The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing on Japan

Your white uniform as a black domestic was your ticket anywhere in town.

Kathryn Stockett

Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.

Annie Lennox

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

Bill Owens

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

George Steiner

I'm getting all domesticated. I feel like Susie the homemaker.

Gin Wigmore

I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.

John Mayer