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.

George Washington

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

Dave Barry

I figured out why I'm not getting seriously rich. I write newspaper columns. Nobody ever makes newspaper columns into Major Motion Pictures starring Tom Cruise. The best you can hope for, with a newspaper column, is that people will like it enough to attach it to their refrigerators with magnets shaped like fruit.

John Gage

I can plug in a 80 gigabyte disk and store 16 hours of video on it or up to 500 hours of audio. Now we attach it to a free satellite, slow, trickle charge. We can put anything on the disk you want to know about clean water, latrines and do it in whatever language.

Edward P. Jones

The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.

Brigitte Nielsen

Im 48 now and I would like to have another baby. I would love to because of all the things I have learned. It would be like starting all over again. But am I too old? Im young at heart and I would be different this time round.

Charles Bukowski

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.

Ann Brashares

Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.

Ann Coulter

This is the way addled liberals really think. Even as they champion sucking the brains out of little babies, they think of themselves as indelibly compassionate because they favor an overweening, behemoth federal government.

Ann Coulter

Liberals can't just come out and say, they want to take more of our money, kill babies, and discriminate on the basis of race.

Andy Borowitz

Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.

Andy Borowitz

The baby Jesus was the last homeless person the Republicans liked.

Andrea Gibson

If you were to press your heart close up against somebody else’s heart eventually your hearts will start beating at the same time. And two little babies in an incubator, their hearts will beat at the same time. Love that. So if you have somebody in your life that is prone to anxiety, like myself, and if you happen to be a calm person, you could come up and hug me heart to heart and my heart hopefully would slow to yours. And I just love that idea. Or maybe yours would speed up to mine. But either way, we’ll be there together.

Ed Dunlop

As for the future hopefully he will carry on but today is the day, let's live it up.

Joel Pineiro

I've been feeling great all year. It was just a matter of having that extra confidence to go out there and challenge people. Maybe it's a little too late in the season, but it's something I can carry over to next year.

Marty Cunningham

This was a prototypical Friday in that traders and investors weren't eager to carry any positions over the weekend and you saw fluctuations back and forth in the market. It will be tough to get a gauge on what Monday morning will look like.

S. Walker

We certainly are playing a lot better since the last time we were home. We need to carry over what we've done so well on the road.

Flip Saunders

We're going through this stretch where every team has a superstar that can carry a team. The consistent thing is that, at some point in the game, we turn it on at an unbelievably high level.

Cherlanda Franklin

You forget about the losses, not the wins, but it's going to carry us over to the next game. All that enthusiasm, it's going to pump us up. We did it before, we can do it again.

Paul Weller

Playing music is a lifetime's work. And if you want to carry on with it, you have to try to better yourself. You have to see where the music can take you.

Bill Tierney

There was a little spark, so hopefully we can carry that into our Ivy League season.

Muqtada al Sadr

The resistance does not mean that everyone can carry a weapon. The weapon is only for the people of the weapons.

Jeanette Miller

It's a small town with lots of shops, sort of like Peddler's Village. We thought we'd look around.

Brett Smith

There'll be lots of water, lots of shade.

Jamie Sale

We have lots of time for a honeymoon, and we're always together.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.