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)

Atharva Veda

THE selfishness fouling your love is veiling divinity from your vision. What is the reason for the selfishness which is veiling divinity from us? It is simply our attachment to the body; It is the weakness of our mind and our enslavement to our senses.

Bodhidharma

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

Rajneesh

Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop it. And when you start enjoying those blissful moments, your capacity to retain them for longer periods arises.

Kirk Gibson

I grew up with Ernie Harwell. Jack Buck is, like Ernie, an icon. Of course in 1988, when he made the call, it was a special attachment that lasted a lifetime. Let's say it was well said. I couldn't believe what I just saw, either.

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.

George Washington

A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils

Chris Hoofnagle

Because you have to sign in to use it, they can attach your identity to anything you send through that pipe.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Masayuki Senda

There is a possibility the Fed may raise rates three more times to 4.5 percent before pausing, to keep inflation under control.

Robert Kiyosaki

Every time the Fed implements 'quantitative easing,' a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

Eric Barden

There's increasing recognition that the Fed is not quite done.

Eric Stern

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

Stephen Bernstein

But at least we have the federal judge saying he should be released.

Edward Hyman

My guess is the Fed tightens but, as you know, it's a toss-up ... it's a 50-50 shot,

Mike Boss

Now the odds are 85 percent that the Fed will move again.

Anthony Chan

New Fed chairmen like to come out of the gate looking hawkish as they try to formulate their credibility. Then, they go back to looking more dovish.

Abel Ferrara

I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

Peter Schuyler

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Curtis Armstrong

I've been going to this high school for 7 and 1/2 years, I'm no dummy.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Rich Olson

That took the wind out of our sails. It just made the hill a lot higher to climb.

Bill Graham

Well then there would have to be housing for them to move to and we're looking at all possibilities but we obviously have to have a practical solution as well.

David Church

Lower-income housing has been a problem, and it's only getting worse.

Bereket Selassie

Housing is a huge retention issue for the military.

Hernan Cortes

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

Clive James

A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?

Hans Vestberg

For us, we are moving a company that has been around for 137 years to the next level so that we can be there for the next 137 years.

Alexander Calder

The next step in sculpture is motion.

Bob Hazel

Teachers have enough problems as it is. It's sure not positive.

Jeff Berliner

The upside to the disk problem was that we recovered the old system to the SAN.

Eric Lyons

Zach and Ryan really didn't have much problem with their opponents,

Ben Feldman

If you’ve got a problem make it a procedure and it won’t be a problem anymore.

Ben Feldman

Youll have the same problems when I walk out, as you had when I walked in... unless you let me take your problems with me.

Elie Tahari

Don't bring me problems. Bring me solutions.

Richard Langford

Conceptually, I don't have any problems with this idea. It's just a question of where do we start and how do we get there.

Colin Powell

Leadership is solving problems.

Albert Einstein

No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Timothy Leary

The universe is an intelligence test.

Swami Vivekananda

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

Sabeer Bhatia

Don't be afraid to tread new ground, but do a sanity test.

Ricky Ponting

Although we lost it has been a great Test and one of the best I have ever played in. Hopefully the next one will be exactly the same.

Mark Pryor

You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate.

George Carlin

Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.

Jack Kornfield

This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.

Jaron Lanier

One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.