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.

Clive Bell

Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo.... In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at sight of which great grownup babies are expected to hide their eyes.

Douglas Feaver

I have never understood the appeal of babies, they seem such horrible creatures most of the time!

Douglas Coupland

Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowly time passes yet how quickly my body ages. But I shouldn't allow myself to think like this. I have to remind myself that time only frightens me when I think of having to spend it alone. Sometimes I scare myself with how many of my thoughts revolve around making me feel better about sleeping alone in a room.

Donald Trump

The press came out with headlines. Trump throws baby out of arena. I don't throw babies out, believe me. I love babies.

Donald Trump

That has been the same [my opinion on deportation], correct. But, again, you have to start with baby steps.

Donald Trump

First of all, these lenders are not babies. These are total killers. These are not the nice, sweet little people you think. You're living in a world of make-believe.

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.

Pierce Brown

My roommates are all such happy-go-lucky guys, and I carry some of the stress around a lot more.

Richard Lamm

The very controversial National Identification Act of 1991, requiring all United States citizens to carry identification, has greatly enhanced the ability of law enforcement officers to identify criminals and terrorists.

Simon Schama

The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power.

Takeo Hiranuma

We should carry out reforms that are necessary, but when it comes to tradition, we should protect it with all our might.

Saeb Erakat

We should be prepared for elections and carry out whatever is possible to implement,

Eric Fehrnstrom

We think special legislation is called for, and we're willing to work with the church to help them carry out their charitable mission.

Ian Stannard

We think next year will be a very different story as excess global liquidity, the driver for carry trades, is drained by central banks.

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.