Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even going to the Olympics, not a lot of people even know who you are. But when you win a medal and you have that attached to your name, a lot of people recognize you.

Seers whose sins (or imperfections) are destroyed, whose doubts have been dispelled by knowledge, whose disciplined minds are attached with the Self, and who are engaged in the welfare of all beings attain Supreme Brahman.

James Rosenquist

Scientists say, 'There is no such thing as time; gravity is a dust from another universe, and outside our own universe are many, many universes in all directions.' They speculate that attached to these universes are probably 6,000 planets identical to Earth. So are there things living out there? Animals, people, anything?

'Rules dieters' find limitations oddly freeing, because the restrictions create a framework that's easy to follow. Essentially, rules dieters don't do well when they're let off plan, mainly because they are usually emotionally attached to food in some way.

Customers won't notice anything different, there's just a new unit attached to the meter. We want the process to be as seamless as possible with the least impact of the customer. Once installed, the customers will also experience less estimated bills when our workers can't get in.

And you can't be attached to creature comforts.

Jill Johnston

All of life seems like that. Once we settle into some phase or other, and become attached to it, some unknown force makes us move on, only death obviously relieving us from these exhausting cycles.

You see all these welcome home banners and parades through town, and these are things that should be done. I just think there's got to be more for some of these guys who come home to nothing. The single soldier, the ones that aren't attached to any unit, they also deserve to know and to hear - job well done.

Octave Mirbeau

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.

They didn't want that stigma attached to them.

David Gregory

This partial strike is a very smart move by the workers, as it places a great deal of pressure on the employer. Private bus lines, currently under transition to become fully under the public transportation sector, have no strike prohibitions attached to them.

There's a certain level of geekiness attached to this.

Felipe Alou

(Bench coach) Ron Wotus gives me all the pitches each guy has thrown over the last five days, ... We have a form attached to the lineup card. ... There have been some times a guy gets up even two or three times and doesn't get in the game. We don't forget about that.

Everything's wonderful in Oakland. I'm very happy for Ken. He's very attached to his players and felt very badly he wasn't going to be with them. The bottom line is this really wasn't about money. It was more about both parties being comfortable on going forward. In the end, it was easy to get resolved.

Douglas Hyde

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

Carrie Coon

I've never felt terribly attached to acting because I always feel like the world is really big and really interesting, and there are a lot of places that I can put my energy and be fulfilled.

Ivana loves the show and she stands behind it, ... I think of my relationship with Ivana as one that is going to last a long time. I've attached myself to the more lovable Trump.

David Strathairn

It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days.

Ezra Taft Benson

Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security.

Bankruptcy does not have the same impact today that it did a generation ago, and that may well lead to a diminution of the kind of stigma that formerly attached itself to a personal bankruptcy filing.

That table was attached to the wall. The vehicle had diesel in the rack in cans. It erupted, spewed diesel elsewhere.

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.

Joyce Cary

The will is never free -- it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car -- it can't steer.

The whole world is engrossed in emotional attachment to Maya. Those who are controlled by the three qualities are attached to Maya.

The Village Center, for example, will have a grill for casual dining, a cafe, all attached by a courtyard with tables and a fountain.

I've never met a seller who wasn't emotionally attached to their house. It's where they lived, where their children grew up.

Roger Williams

There's something about Penn State that creates intense loyalty. We have a lot of people who come to Penn State and they are transformed when they get here. They get attached and it stays with them all their lives.

There's some allure to having your name attached to that project. But for our own reasons, that's one that we passed on. We're a little uncomfortable with some of the price points they're charging.

There's no personal history that's attached to any of this. Whatever personal history was attached to it, went when Marge died.

I still don't know what strings are attached to this. I'm delighted, of course.

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