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

Ned Riley

People have been using a rotational strategy -- but eventually you'll have a peaceful coexistence between the two because the 'old economy' stocks will have very good relative earnings that people can attach to,

Rachel Moon

You can carry your baby and not just use the car seat all the time. There are lots of things you can do to attach with your baby. It doesn't have to be just at night.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

Connie Higgins

Ballots are automatically mailed out if you're registered to vote.

Jeff Bridges

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

Shawn Stenger

Rain isn't our deal, but we came out and it didn't bother us. We moved the ball around pretty well in the first half.

Tim Ford

Our defense played awfully well. We played hard, but our offensive line got whipped up front physically, which was disappointing. Our defense was the key. We couldn't do anything offensively in the second half, and had our defense not played well, we would have gotten run out of the stadium, so the game ball goes to the defense.

Ernie Zeigler

People are trying to score a lot of points. Luc can go up and down the court 10 times without the ball and still maintain the same intensity.

David Gower

People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade.

Chip Kelly

People don't know what you're doing. We can line him up at receiver and if a smaller defender tries to cover him, that's a big mismatch. You get in the red zone, down near the goal line, and he becomes a real big factor if you can get him matched up with smaller defensive backs. . . . It's head and shoulders when you say who's the top tight end in the league in terms of getting the ball to a tight end and letting him do some things.

Mark Campbell

People go through different stages with their shot, and really, as an entire team we weren't shooting the ball very well for a few weeks. But it was good to see us play well. Hopefully we can move forward.

Willie Worsley

Open the gym up, roll the ball out, put the kids out there and have all the adults stay home, and you'll have a great game.

Ray Daniels

The most vibrant beer culture in the world is here in the U.S.. The Great American Beer Festival is a place to see the influence of the beers of Europe on craft beers of America.

Ken Knowles

So now they'll just come in and buy 10 cases of beer instead.

Bobby Clarke

There's no reason why a player is done at 33, 34. They train better, they eat better, they drink better. This isn't the old days when everybody sat around and drank beer.

Drew Carey

Listen, you don't know any better so I'll just tell you. You can't try to save money by not having the right beer. You know, you can skip having medical insurance, you can buy everything you own at a swap meet but the right beer is what makes living like this possible.

Timothy Olyphant

The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tyre and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that bearded dude is doing on the Dos Equis beer commercials sets the bar. That's your guy. Every man should be aiming to be like him. The beard is just the tip of the iceberg.

Steve Martin

Ah, yes. I remember my first beer.

Tom Green

It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid.

Ron White

From the very beginning I started with a beer and a cigarette because I couldn't figure out what to do with my hands. So usually I have a beer and cigarette and that's what I was doing with my hands because that looked natural and felt good.

Richard Stallman

Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'.

Erin Campbell

The bottom line is this should translate into a savings of several million dollars for the people of Vermont.

Elaine Makatura

The bottom line is that we take enforcement of compliance with our regulations seriously, and we are concerned about the quality of life of residents in the area.

Jimmy Ray

The bottom line is that we don't pursue a lot of cases that other counties do. And that's because we don't take garbage up front.

Joe Perry

The bottom line is fans just want to hear a good song. Some people will look underneath to see who wrote it, but they just want to hear a good song. And if they don't hear it, they're not going to buy it just because you wrote it.

Lawrence Frank

The bottom player is he's a better player than what he showed in the first half,

Clive Smith

The bottom line is, we're in a place that actually has a rule of law. The British government is mandated to take action.

Wayne Jones

The bottom line is we're going to have a fair election in Summit County. The problem is we're going to have to count a lot of ballots.

Jim McGann

The bottom line is we're going to do what the commission wants by the deadline they set.

Dennis Mackey

The bottom line is we need to get production from everybody. We need to get scoring. When we've been successful this year, we had solid scoring from five, six people. When we only get it from two or three, that's when we run into problems.

Ayn Rand

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

Atticus Shaffer

My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there.

Kip Pulliam

We'd get up six or seven, and they would come right back and cut it to three. They hit three-pointers. They hit free throws. They're just tough to stop.

Ari Fleischer

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

Tom Griffin

When you reach out for help and it's just not there, it's like signing a death sentence. The more they cut beds, they are killing people on the streets.

Aristotle Onassis

In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.

Dave Obey

I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate.

Scott Simmons

Don't try to be cute. Maintain your focus--you're hunting for a job, not reliving your past.

Stuart Cohen

E-mail is the primary source of viruses. So cutting off e-mail before midnight seems prudent.

Gary Bardini

These rises are going to be fairly high but not near as high as what we saw three months ago.

Ric Ocasek

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

Jerome Jenkins

He played on a fairly good team last year.

Dr. Levy

I think that a lot of physicians really see drug testing as a fairly simple lab test when, in fact, it is not at all.

Jon Holmes

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Silas Weir Mitchell

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

Steve Payne

Fairly significant indication of overflow. We are estimating upwards of 10,000 and probably into the 50,000 gallon range.

Brian Krzanich

In general, the PC's always had a fairly decent tie to GDP.

Bill Nelson

Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.

Pat Hurst

I saw after nine holes (Creamer) was 6 up. She's our rookie, and she was unbelievable.

Carlton Fisk

I'm a six-handicap but those two holes scare me every time,

Seve Ballesteros

I miss the hole, I miss the hole, I miss the hole, I hole it.

Stuart Appleby

You can't run away from the pack if you aren't running away from it. Running away would be six shots up with six holes to play. That would be pretty much a run away. There is a lot of golf, 25% of the tournament still left out there.