Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are pieces from either a jacket or a bag that were attached to the bodies. The pieces from their torsos spattered in all directions.

We heard that lots of folks had a concern because they had an emotional attachment to the gas station going back many years.

The fact is that there is a huge string attached to all of the money that flows for health to the provinces and that string is the Canada Health Act.

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

Edward Snowden

If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything. And it gets saved for a very long time - and can be extended further with waivers rather than warrants.

Edward Gibbon

Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend.

Charles Lamb

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.

James Nesbitt

You don't learn charm. It's not something that you can acquire. I have used it much in my life with great success, but it's not necessarily what makes me an actor. It became a very easy label to attach to me. It also feels a bit dismissive. People go, 'You're so lovely and charming', but it's a wee bit, 'That's all you are.'

Benjamin Hoff

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

Leonard Mlodinow

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.

Lev Grossman

Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.

To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer

Mariella Frostrup

Whenever the party-girl tag gets attached to my name, it makes me want to snort with derision.

Lorraine Toussaint

I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.

When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict. I didn't choose where I was born or who to be or what people would call me.

Alan Arkin

I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to work with a good script with a good director, and the part I play is of less important than those two factors.

Andie MacDowell

I try really hard not to be attached to success.

You become attached to where you are. People know where to find us.

A person is said to have attained yogic perfection when there is no desire for sensual pleasures, or attachment to the fruits of work, and has renounced all personal selfish motives.

Charles Shaughnessy

Soaps are great. You learn to work very fast - some say superficially, but that's not really true. You do some very serious character work. I've never had any feelings about a stigma attached to it, and nowadays there seems to be less snobbery about what you do. More and more big names are doing TV and commercials and voiceovers.

That's always the problem with films that get high expectation attached to them, ... If this does not beat the opening of 'Two Towers,' people will be decrying it as disappointment.

The Messenger of Death imposes his tax on those who are attached to duality.

The Israelis would do better to attach no conditions and come back to the bargaining table.

Bruce Bochy

It's not an all-important thing to us. But we certainly didn't want to go into the postseason with below a .500 record. We didn't want that stigma attached to us.

Bruce Bochy

It's not an all-important thing to us, ... But we certainly didn't want to go into the postseason with below a .500 record. We didn't want that stigma attached to us.

Suzanne Collins

Any time you read a book and get attached to the characters, to me it's always a shock when it goes from page to screen and it's not exactly what was in my head or what I was imagining it should be.

Jason Mraz

In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.

In most cases we attach ourselves to God in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.

In my experience, I've never seen one granted that didn't have a major research project attached to it. While it's a detachment from teaching, it's not a detachment from working.

Chip Conley

I know that when I attached my sense of identity a little too closely to my work that I might be distracting myself from feelings of unworthiness. It wasn't the number of hours I worked or how bloodshot my eyes were that defined the difference. It was something internal.

I know all the bags there at that time ... were hand searched and had someone attached to those bags.

Lauren Lapkus

I love L.A. and feel attached to this city, but I don't identify myself as being a part of it.