“The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented.” FirstsHomeFoundRecordsMajorsMajorityInventionSatPioneersElectricalPhonograph Author:Dave Barry
“When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I heard him singing to himself without me, and when he tended the garden it was not for me. He was courteous and polite; he enjoyed being at home, but in the fantasy of his home I was not the one who sat opposite him and laughed at his jokes. He didn't want to change anything; he liked his life. The only thing he wanted to change was me.” WantHomeEyeWantedTogetherFantasyHeardHusbandSingingJokesGardenOppositesAffairDinnerEnjoyedSatHis EyesMy HusbandLaughedPoliteAdulteryCourteous Book:Sexing the Cherry Source: Sexing the Cherry
“The rum fiend would like to go and hang up a skeleton in your beautiful house so that, when you opened the front door to go in, you would see it in the hall; and, when you sat at your table you would see it hanging from the wall; and, when you opened your bedroom you would find it stretched upon your pillow; and, waking at night, you would feel its cold hand passing over your face and pinching at your heart. There is no home so beautiful but it may be devastated by the awful curse.” FeelsHeartMayHomeHandsBeautifulFacesNightHouseDoorsFrontsWallColdTablesPassingPassingsAwfulCurseSatOver YouHallsYour FaceWakingBedroomPillowDrunkennessSkeletonsDevastatedFront DoorsHang UpsYour BeautifulRumPinching Author:Thomas De Witt Talmage
“Yesterday I sat in a field of violets for a long time perfectly still, until I really sank into it - into the rhythm of the place, I mean - then when I got up to go home I couldn't walk quickly or evenly because I was still in time with the field.” MeanLongStillsHomeWalksFieldsLong TimeYesterdayRhythmSatViolet Book:BRING ME A UNICORN Source: BRING ME A UNICORN
“I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.” HomeFoundWifeFoodCookingVery GoodDinnerMy WifeSatCulinaryHandsomeBeefVenisonPasties Book:The Diary of Samuel Pepys Source: The Diary of Samuel Pepys
“I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.” PeopleThinkingIdeasHomeSatCartoonCandyCottonLollipopTiarasCotton Candy Author:Anne Hathaway