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Quotes About Home

No, in the Bolitar household, the kitchen was more a gathering place - a Family Room Lite, if you will - than anything related to even the basest of the culinary arts. The round table held magazines and catalogs and congealing white boxes of Chinese takeout. The stove top saw less action than a Merchant-Ivory production. The oven was a prop, strictly for show, like a politician's Bible.
~ Harlan Coben
Simon's had been littered with empty pizza boxes and emptier beer cans, decorated in Early American Pub Crawl, while Eileen Vaughan's suite looked like something out of an Ikea catalogue, all pale woods and real furniture and freshly-vacuumed throw carpets.
~ Harlan Coben
She hung up. Camp Arifjan had served pizza as a choice at almost every meal, but the sauce tasted like turned ketchup and the dough had the consistency of toothpaste. Since she'd been home, she craved only thin-crust pizza and nobody did that better than Best of Everything. When
~ Harlan Coben
Here is one of life's little shortcuts: If someone is meeting you in their "study," they have money. Normal people have a home office or a family room or maybe a man cave. Rich people have studies. This one was particularly opulent, loaded up with leather-bound books and wooden globes and Oriental rugs. It looked like someplace Bruce Wayne would hang out before heading down to the Batcave. Larry
~ Harlan Coben
Fester left. Ray put the water on to boil. Instant coffee. Loud Urdu-language voices were coming from upstairs. Sounded like the kids were coming home from school. Ray made his way to the shower and stayed under the spray until the hot water was gone. Milo
~ Harlan Coben
Trenton was the capital of New Jersey, home to the state government and thus filled with politicians and their ensuing scandals
~ Harlan Coben
Her cell phone rang. She didn't recognize the number, but the area code was 216, which meant the call was from someone close to home. She picked up and said hello. "This is Darrow Fontera." "Who?" "I'm the head of security for Red Lobster. We met when you asked for surveillance footage." "Yes, right. What can I do for you?" "I had asked you to return the DVD when you were done." Was
~ Harlan Coben
This neighborhood felt like a part of her. It felt as though some of her DNA was in the blue clapboards and off-white Cape Cods and cracked pavement and small patches of lawn, like she'd been beamed away à la Star Trek but a few of her particles got left behind. Part of her would always be at Thanksgiving at Uncle Tommy and Aunt Eileen's, sitting at the "kids' table," which was a Ping-Pong table with a king-size sheet doubling as a tablecloth.
~ Harlan Coben
just put the gun down. Let's go home. Please." "My God," Sheriff Yiannikos said under his breath, "he's going to do it." Myron could see that too. He debated making a move, sprinting toward the boy, but there
~ Harlan Coben
I'm driving home to change, Win said. Then I'm dining at Merion. Mainliners never ate; they dined. Care to join me?
~ Harlan Coben
Every home is its own independent country.
~ Harlan Coben
Everyone at home is so supportive. People recognise me, say how proud they are of me. It's awesome to hear, it's amazing to know I can touch so many people in a positive way.
~ Kirsty Coventry
I've stood up in front of America for 25 years, and I wish I could bring everybody into my home that I have touched in my career. That would be an amazing thing.
~ Joy Mangano
It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
~ Forest Whitaker
I love where I'm from, but it's a tough, poverty-stricken area.
~ Caleb Plant
The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of the place. I had about as good a run there as anybody, but it's still a tough ask. I mean, the person I think with the best career in Australia is Ray Meagher, in 'Home and Away.'
~ Ben Mendelsohn
Please stay home and stay safe and keep your family safe. In these tough times, we have to come together and fight the battle against COVID-19.
~ Ravindra Jadeja
Even when I'm back home, I find the flat parts of the course tougher. Because it's flat, I feel it more in my knees.
~ Genzebe Dibaba
I wanted to make a home that was similar to the kind of home that my mother made. To be able to create something like that in my adopted city, New York City, one of the toughest cities on the planet, is really special.
~ Tamara Tunie
A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes.
~ Pete Townshend
I never leave L.A. for too long. I'm not one of those that go on a tour of the whole world. I probably should be, but I'm not.
~ Flying Lotus
I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.
~ Ville Valo
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.
~ Travis Barker
But I'm a real Gemini; I'm completely different at home than when I'm on tour.
~ Anne Murray