Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

The photo that I looked at, I don't know if the photographer didn't like that he was chewing gum, but he had him put his gum on his hat. I kinda liked that. So, I chewed gum for about a month and saved it on a plate and then finally attached it into the canvas.

When you look at a system that's outside of something that you're most familiar with, there seems to be some mystery attached to it, ... when in fact, it really is pretty simple.

What keeps people attached to poverty? The public schools.

Carlo Ratti

The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.

With so much personal history attached to the site, assuring that the property went to a good home and a good use was of utmost importance to Bill Sears.

We will have two live cameras attached to our system on the Homeland Security vehicle. I'm not sure what application they will use because they are not letting us know. We showed them four.

Oscar Wilde

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but we're still left wanting to know more. In my own case, it was 'Great Expectations' and Miss Havisham in particular. Luckily, writers have the option of making up the knowledge that reading doesn't supply.

Those whose inner beings are attached to the Lord's Love are liberated. They control their sexual desires, and their lifestyle is the self-discipline of Truth.

Byron Dorgan

We don't make one pair of Levi's in the United States any more. Want to wear Tony Lama Boots? You're probably wearing Chinese boots. You want to eat Fig Newton cookies? You're eating a foreign product. Didn't used to be. It's Mexican now. We are seeing a wholesale movement away from this country of things that we make, products that we produce, that used to have attached to them good jobs for Americans.

Timothy Spall

You find yourself attached to five or six projects that never get made.

Paul Weller

I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old.

Phil Hartman

I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth.

Women are sometimes so emotionally attached to the house that they cannot see the financial pros and cons of it,

To my Lucy I now offer myself with my stock, wares and chattels and all the devotedness of heart attached to such an enthusiastic being as I am.

We have a feeding unit, and we also have a chainsaw unit attached to us, and a chaplain. And we'll go into a community in Alexandria at the Horseshoe Baptist Church, and we'll be prepared to prepare up to 20 thousand meals a day.

It's quite unusual for people to contribute to mental illness organizations because, I think, there's still a stigma attached to the illness.

Sathya Baba

Do not get attached to worldly things and pursuits.  Be in the world, but do not let the world be in you.

E. O. Wilson

Everybody has his own version of clam chowder. I think it has to do with what you grew up with. People get attached to what they're used to.

At first, I was able to use a Bunsen burner attached to my mother's gas stove, but the use of the kitchen as a laboratory came to an abrupt end when a minor explosion involving hydrogen sulphide spattered the newly painted decor and changed the colour from blue to dirty green!

Paul Davies

For comparison, there was a nation over there and all they had was a grappling hook and a line, ... When they found something they would have to drag it to see if it would blow up. Whereas at the other end of the spectrum, we had the remote control robot that could take pictures and has all kinds of weapons attached to keep the operator himself from having to touch it.

For a crime like trespassing, there's typically a fine attached to that. So I pay my fine and I've paid my debt to society and now I'm 'legal' again.

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.

Then there's a consequence because that'll be picked up someplace and it'll get attached to him some and he'll lose some points with legitimate fans and people in uniforms. It's a shame. How about how hard he works every day? How he cheers for his team when he's 0 for four? And all these other million things he does right? Somebody says he lingers at the plate? That's real tired.

It really comes down to using publicly available statistics for the games - and the names that are attached to those statistics.

It's much harder for actors than writers because the audience is attached to faces and the way it's used to seeing them. With writers, as long as the faces change, the audience is flexible.

It was so touch and go, Dr. Hall told me not to get attached to him.

Mick Jones

The band is something I'm very proud of, and obviously I'm very attached to it. There's a certain uniqueness to Foreigner.

The attached drawings are usually big, sometimes more than 10 megabytes. Now, they can just drop it into the mailbox and it will be sent directly to the colleague.

Christopher Lee

I was attached to the SAS from time to time, but we are forbidden - former, present, or future - to discuss any specific operations.

Joe McNally

Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it.