Famous Quotes & Sayings

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

Probably the earliest fly swatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Bob Lilly

I go to the ballgames and I'm talking to the fans, and not the players. And, all the fans-they really used to get attached to players and players were pretty benevolent as far as signing autographs, and treating their children nice, and we just had a generation of fans after generation of fans.

Steve Bietau

You have to do something right to be able to play in a big match at this point in the year. It definitely has some significance attached to it for us.

Chip Greenberg

You'll notice that the program interface resembles a telephone with a video screen attached to it. The keys on the telephone can be tapped with the mouse. It's designed to be user-friendly.

Anthony Wood

I certainly will be looking to continue the path which has been made by my predecessors, especially Minister Farley . . . . I certainly look forward to working with all persons attached to the ministry to ensure the work is carried forward in the most professional way.

Nancy Reisman

I am very fond of Ann Arbor; very attached to the Great Lakes region,

Dan Hill

I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I don't want to be attached to a catheter. I saw all that stuff happen to my father, and as much as it upset me because I loved my father so much, it also really traumatized me.

Felipe Alou

I don't worry. But I know it's there. I played with Hank Aaron. There was no security attached to Hank and the Braves. I wasn't there when he broke the record but I was there when he was approaching and stuff started happening - hate letters and yelling - and there wasn't speculation about him.

Dr. Johnson

Back fusions are like killing a fly on the windowpane with a sledgehammer. The fly is dead, but you've also broken the glass.

Greg Gibson

Ramon ran very well. He broke 17 minutes for the first time.

Sara Paxton

Really good comedic roles for women are far and between, with the exception of 'Bridesmaids,' where everyone said it broke down so many doors for women - and it did. I would like to do something like that. I think it would be really great!

Fred Armisen

Prince is my favorite ever. I've liked Prince since... It's been a really long time. Even in junior high. I used to only like punk for a while, and I had all these rules for what kinds of groups were cool, and who was not cool, but as soon as I saw this one Prince video... It just broke all those rules. I was like, 'I love this no matter what.'

Scott Nykerk

Our serve receive wasn't that strong, so we struggled with that a little. It shifted our momentum back and forth every time our serve receive broke down.

Wayne Grant

Our defense just broke down and didn't tackle. That score should've never happened.

Stephen Graham Jones

People shouldn't go broke making a haunted house. Or, we should pay for our enjoyment, definitely.

John Jones

People talk about HP being a broken company, but they're not a broken company, ... Half of their business is printers and, they're growing at as much as 16 percent.

Robbie Robertson

People think I left The Band and spoiled this whole thing, and that's not what happened. Nobody broke up The Band. Nobody ever said, 'That's it, we're done.'

Ryan Madson

Stuff started happening pretty quick, and I wasn't thinking out there like I should have been. I was just out there throwing.

Shia LaBeouf

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.

Rick Hoffman

Even though the storefronts looked vacant, there was a lot of work happening inside, ... Seeing that, we realized this place has a lot of potential.

Dennis Hinkle

We've had some nice things happening and there's more in the works. For years it was pretty bad.

Tamba Hali

We didn't know what to do. Then it started happening all the time. So we went into hiding.

Andrew Abraham

What is happening right now is that there are thousands and thousands of people all over the world sending their prayers for Daniel.

Lisa Origliasso

We feel like we've been working at it forever. But then it seems like it's happening so fast!

Peter Fiske

We were left with no choice. This doesn't give our membership much time to prepare. It's all happening very fast. What else can we say but this is a horrible time and membership should prepare their finances.

Johnny Isakson

What's happening today is not going to help us, because the refineries have had to shut down and the offshore wells have had to shut down.

Terry Austin

We regret and hate to lose an industry of that caliber.

Augusten Burroughs

I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?

Aziz Ansari

I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'

Aziz Ansari

Even in my stand-up, there's a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-everything vibes.

Ayn Rand

Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

Brad Pitt

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

Jamie Dimon

I hate the word universal, because I don't know exactly what it means. The question is, does it work for the client? Travelers was a diversified, financial conglomerate that did very well. The businesses had nothing to do with each other.

Juvenal

A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate

Miley Cyrus

Love me or hate me,I don't care.I'm doing what i like.I'm happy.

Charles Barkley

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

Stephen King

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

Ray Bradbury

If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.

Norah Jones

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

Myrtle Reed

A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

Jim Gaffigan

It's amazing how email has changed our lives. You ever get a handwritten letter in the mail today? 'What the? Has someone been kidnapped?'

Eugene Field

Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?

George R. R. Martin

The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?” Stannis snorted. “Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Bob Ladouceur

The team we saw on film was not the team we played out there tonight.

Donna Cowing

I've always played for him. I think about him every day.

Johnny Marr

I've almost never played the 'Smiths' records, once they've gone out. I was always like that and probably always will be.

Shane Warne

The one thing I'll remember from this series is the way it's been played and the spirit it's been played in.

London Fletcher

After a victory like that it's great, but it's also sad because you think this is the team we could have been all season long and we could have played like this in other games.

John Sebastian

Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was.

Robert Corn

Ten turnovers is a big key. I'll take 10 every time out. We played unselfish basketball.

Greg Baudo

Right now, we're playing better than we've ever played before.

Cameron Diaz

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

Carson Daly

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

Janet Jackson

I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.

Nat Harrington

We have a really safe record if you look at how much we're on the road.

Marc Chandler

We've seen speculators try to get out of short yen positions, which were at record levels.

Eddy Cue

Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record-breaking 33 million people have already listened to the album.

Ben Harper

I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

Jason Stollsteimer

We could record in Detroit, we could record anywhere,

Jay London

I went to a record store and asked for 50 cent. They kicked me out for pan-handling.

Fatih Birol

We think security of supply will be a big problem.

Colin Powell

Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Thomas Brooks

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

Rand Beers

The precondition to freedom is security.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Jay Leno

Gas stations are considering hiring security guards. Why are they getting security guards? We're the ones getting robbed.

Ken Stern

It has to come to a head. We won't have Social Security if it doesn't.

Taylor Swift

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

Brett Ratner

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

Anthony Weiner

You've gotta stop making stuff up.

Art Spiegelman

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

Benjamin Booker

Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

Burton Rascoe

I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.

Al Yankovic

As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

Alain de Botton

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

Jamie Luner

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Conor McGregor

I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

Chuck Eddy

I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.

Fiona Apple

I took off my glasses while you were yelling at me once more than once so as not to see you see me react. Should've put 'em, should've put 'em on again so I could see you see me sincerely yelling back.

Bill Burr

Do you know how many times a week people ask me why I'm yelling?

Johnny Hott

I was the first person on the scene. I didn't know they were in there. I was just yelling their names.

Ice Cube

You got to get used to somebody, when you're acting or going through a scene, somebody yelling, "Do it a little louder!" OK, you do it a little louder. "

J. K. Rowling

But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kept him waiting before. . . . Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him. . . . If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back. . . . That he really was . . .

Grace Kelly

Getting angry doesn't solve anything.

Grant Hill

Yelling doesn't get your point across, it only makes it louder.