Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.
It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back.
I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis.
This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home.
What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world.
Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.
It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.
What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.
Wisconsin is very proud of the career and technical college system that we have back home.
When a criminal breaks into your home I'll let the liberals call the lawyer. I'm going to call Smith & Wesson.
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.
The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.
At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.
I want lots of kids and I want a garden and I hope to stay married to my husband. I hope to be working in some way that fulfils me.
