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?

Ben Karlin

It's funny to us -- we have no attachment to the couch. The couch is so incongruous with the show. One thing that's been made really clear over the last few years is that it's not a talk show. We don't know what it is. It's a thing unto itself.

Sadie Jones

I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.

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.

Mike Kohs

After what we did the other night, we had (Hillhouse) right where we wanted them. From three it?s back to seven in a heartbeat, it seemed like. Then we are back chasing. They have tremendous team speed. Not for a lack of effort on our part, but they seemed to come up with that loose ball all the time.

Tim Rafferty

After putting good swings on the ball for six innings something good is bound to happen.

Barry Hyman

The Nasdaq is a different ball game. It's not a credit-sensitive sector.

Gerard Hopkins

O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve: after-comers cannot guess the beauty been.

Greg Nossaman

Once we got the lead we put the ball in the hands of one of the better guards in Ohio. Even though he was double-teamed all night, he got 38 points and got the others involved. It might not sound like it when he has 38 of our 62, but he hit the other guys at the right time.

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.

John Shuster

Now people see that competitive curling of a high caliber is athletic, not just beer parties. It takes mental and physical strength.

Robert Gibbs

We're just going to go straight beer. No sense in diluting it.

Walter Raleigh

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.

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,

Marlon Defillo

We want the public simply to know that they can have confidence in filing a complaint if there is concern of wrong doing by a police officer or allegation of corruption. That every complaint that comes into this office will be handled thoroughly, fairly, and objectively. And that I want citizens to leave this office knowing that their complaint is honored and we will get to the bottom of what occurred.

Bill Belichick

We'll start at the bottom of the heap like everybody else.

Joseph LaVorgna

What I think this means is that the Fed waited maybe for the stock market to go up a little and then cut rates and effectively reinforced the price action. Therefore it set a bottom on stocks, but it's definitely a very good move I think for the Fed.

Richard Scudamore

What I promise the game of football is that we will get to the bottom of this one way or the other.

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.

George Michael

I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men.

Bill Engvall

I travel fairly lightly because you have to these days. I always take a laptop and an iPod so I can watch movies and listen to music. And my Gameboy. That's a good time-killer.

Ricky Stokes

We were not as physical in the first half as we needed to be. We got out to a fairly good start, but didn't play well in the final 10 minutes.

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.