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)

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.

Philip Treacy

Hats are attached to special moments in people's lives - weddings, or the races. In difficult times, people still get married; they still want to look their best.

Katrina Kaif

Like the Bond girl, there's a stigma attached to being a 'Dhoom' girl. You have to look pretty good, and people are going to judge you.

George Stranahan

For a lot of us, whether we like it or not, we are attached to Hunter's coattails. We might as well make them grand coattails.

Nicolas Berggruen

I am not that attached to material things. And the good thing is I can make choices. I have very few possessions. Luckily, as a man you don't need much... a few papers, a couple of books, and a few shirts, jackets, sweaters. It fits in a little thing, in a paper bag, so it's very easy.

Alexandra Stoddard

Don't feel you have to buy something to sit in or at. Buy something you are emotionally attached to and build your design around that. One Matisse cutout poster could provide you with your whole color scheme!

Tim Sullivan

We knew online dating even just two, three years ago, had some stigmas attached to it, ... So we made a very conscious decision to invest heavily in mainstream advertising, like television, radio and outdoor advertising. Now we just wish those who think it's OK to give it a try.

Bob Harper

Is it easy? No! ... It has to be a conscious decision.

Ehud Barak

The whole significance of the compromise, all the pain that it comprises, is the conscious stand before reality, even if it never fits the dream,

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Jesse Jackson

The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation's consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

Deepak Chopra

Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We are very conscious of the impatience of the international community,

Robert Lanza

Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.

Thomas Beecham

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

Michael Jordan

I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.

Rita Mae Brown

Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!

William Williams

Night is a room darkened for lovers. . . .

Jay Safier

People, in general, don't like to get letters addressed to them from the Internal Revenue Service, even if it's as simple as not signing your return or not dating your return.

Sam Yagan

I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.

Jay Leno

President Bush listed his income as $822,000. You know what John Kerry calls someone who earns $822,000? Not even worth dating.

Jordana Brewster

I just can't imagine dating a 20-year-old boy.

James Randi

I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date.

Kimora Lee Simmons

I put my family first, and that's why for a long time, you didn't see me dating or hear about me dating or hear about me out. I had other focuses in my life, and that would be my family and my work.

Phil Robertson

When you get older and you start dating, I want you to be able to say one thing, 'I can bait a hook.'

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Michelle Gorman

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

Inaki Saez

Now I have to take a decision and logically that decision is going to be to continue.

John Lemme

Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure.

Mike Falbo

No one wants to sour the IPO market. That will make investors nervous.

Brett Gallagher

After a big up day like you had yesterday, you have to have some digestion. Once things run up by a big amount, then investors have to step back.

Yasuo Yabe

Right now the market is rather quiet, but it will be a problem when investors return after the New Year and trade volume increases.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Billy Beane

I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been.

Peter Peterson

The time has come for investors to speak up.

Stavros Dimas

The time for Romania to start planning and implementing this investment program is now.

Daniel S. Loeb

Timing is everything in this markets.

William Blake

A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do?

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Kirsten Nelson

I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.

Josh Duell

We tried not to let it rattle us. We knew we just had to come out and stay composed, that's one of the big things we've been trying to do all year with a young team.

Jasper Johns

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Joan Baez

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Kenny Walker

We also have a tough schedule. I knew we would need it to get us better.

Dawn Chriss

Everyone stepped up. Everyone knew we had to make up for it.

Robinson Cano

As soon I saw the roster (I knew I wasn't going to play). They're going to have (Alfonso) Soriano and (Luis) Castillo. If I go there, I'll be sitting on the bench. For me, I think it's better to be with the team in Tampa.

Daniel Anderson

This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly.

Steve Albini

I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

Tom Goguen

There are also some 30 kickbacks that we are starting to use in the mainstream of the operating system.

Brad Pitt

Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

Elizabeth Pisani

I don't get how it's okay to keep someone alive once they're sick - but not okay to stop them getting sick. I just don't get that.

Tim Blake Nelson

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

Larry Long

I said, 'John, is everything OK with my paperwork?' He said, 'Larry, you're on the ballot.'

Al Horford

We really understand that in order to win, we have to play together and play team ball. I think everybody's OK with that.

Jarrius Jackson

I think I had an off day shooting, but we still got the win. I did OK at the end.

Bill Self

I think he'll be OK (for Friday). He just tweaked it.

Ron Polk

I think he's all right. We'll take an X-ray for sure, but he should be OK for the weekend.

Victoria Beckham

I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

Timothy Simons

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Jeff Bezos

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Donna Mutzenard

It's one thing to just go there, but it's another thing to talk to other people about what they're trying in their schools. You don't get that through online research or watching a DVD.

Monte Mitchell

Today is not a day to be doing outdoor burning.

Al Franken

The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.

Sam Donaldson

It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.

Victoria Wood

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

Richard Simmons

Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.

Ernest Hemingway

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

Randy Jackson

You were right where you were supposed to be, singing the right song that could be on the radio right now.

Sean Hannity

When I started in radio, I worked for free. I lived at the radio station. Then I worked for very little money.

Shelby Lynne

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

David Lee Roth

Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Douglas Coupland

There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

D. J. MacHale

Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago.

Tom Lehrer

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

Robert Burns

To make three guineas do the work of five.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Matthew Arnold

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

Carter Burwell

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Bernie Sanders

I am proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously, I wish we could have done a little bit better.

Adolf Hitler

The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit.

Andy Garcia

I wish we didn't have to tell this story.

Aldous Huxley

At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?

Aldous Huxley

I am I, and I wish I weren't.

Albert Einstein

I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful

Emma Goldman

The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here than anywhere else, because of the many bribes capitalism holds out to those whom it wishes to destroy.

E. M. Forster

There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end.