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)

Morris Gleitzman

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.

Nancy Peterson

It became increasingly evident that we needed to do something in terms of a financial turnaround plan, or the place wasn't going to be a viable organization anymore.

Harold Phillips

This class started at a small track back east and it became very popular. It should be a fun class of cars.

Elisabeth Agro

This chair was their first venture into furniture making. It blasted off. It became the hottest thing in children's design.

David Benelli

This case became highly publicized through the media. In light of the worldwide media frenzy these officers were placed under, it was impossible for them to receive a fair investigation.

Dave Taylor

This became the cornerstone of the new Guitar Festival.

Don Bugbee

They set the tempo pretty much all game. They pressed us and took us out of our game and we became nervous and started to panic. We're a young team and we're learning and always trying to get better.

Fernando Meirelles

But then, watching the whole film, it was like hearing my own voice - like the director preaching to the audience. So I started to cut and in the end, I think it became more of a love story.

Edmund Phelps

I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Graeme Smith

We all know the skills that Polly brings, and it will be great to have him back.

Catrin Nilsmark

We all know that we're going to have to win over here at some stage. And I think this is a great opportunity because they're all playing really well. We have nothing to lose.

Javy Lopez

We all knew they had great pitching, ... but with our offense, we should have done better than we did.

Earl Boykins

Tonight we showed that you don't have to shoot great to still get the victory. As long as you do all the other things on the court, you can be OK.

Eddie Jones

Tonight was one of those nights where things didn't go my way. I got great looks at the rim, I just couldn't knock them down.

S. Walker

To see that the work is still going on is a blessing. Being able to be communicate with the kids and make friends was also a great blessing.

Tracy Byrd

We all just hope a third of these people show up. It will make for a great show.

Mike Shula

We all hope that Brodie stays healthy because we think he's a guy that can do some great things for us this year,

Steve Hogan

Tom did a great job of training his managers and the staff on how to work, how to work together and how to keep pushing forward. That's what we're doing.

Clint Eastwood

Music does have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy it very much. I suppose it is my first love and I do a lot of it. It seems to be when you are making a project it inspires you sometimes to jot down something that you think fits the situation.

Anna Akhmatova

A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

Anna Akhmatova

You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.

Ann Voskamp

When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.

Ann Voskamp

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.

Ann Voskamp

That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.

Ann Voskamp

Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.

Albert Schweitzer

For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.

Alane Ferguson

I've decided that I can also touch the hearts of many - dead people, but the living, too. (Cameryn Mahoney)

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Joshua Simmons

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

Angelina Jolie

Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, 'Okay.' And then I sit down and they say, 'It's math.' 'No! Not math! English, history, anything!'

Washington Irving

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Charles Bukowski

Without literature, life is hell.

Jeffrey Sachs

Russia increasingly lived on short-term borrowing. Now, this was an extraordinary merry-go-round.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Drew Barrymore

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.

Drew Barrymore

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

Drew Barrymore

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Douglas MacArthur

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Donald Cargill

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

Don DeLillo

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Don DeLillo

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

Dylan Thomas

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

Patrick McDonald

These are the kind of people we like to remove from society and we were very successful.

Elaine Stritch

This is for people who have dough. It's expensive. That's the way it is.

Shannon Sickels

This is for all the people who went before us and all the people who would like to come after us.

Rich Carnevale

This is going to be something Princeton people have never seen before.

Richard Power

This is a problem that not enough people really are clued into.

Thomas Miller

This is a perfect storm of relief obstructions. You have landslides, snow and no roads to reach the people way up in the mountains.

Robert Cendro

This is an unbelievable surface. People who haven't seen it or weren't sure what it was are going to say, ?Wow!' It's just incredible.

Mark Viator

This is a team sport. We need as many people there as possible.

Madeline Albright

This is a special time because of a lot of people traveling, so we thought that it was important. There are threats, and so that's why we think that is responsible.