Swatting A Fly Quotes & Sayings

There's an awful lot of scenes where we don't know what the scene's going to be about, we ask the audience, pick a place that the scene is happening, pick the relationship, tell us who they are, things like that. — Brian Henson

Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words. — Ayn Rand

Don't water your weeds — Harvey MacKay

What gives us word-users the right to make life-and-death decisions concerning other living creatures that have no words? Why do we find ourselves in positions of such anguish (at least for some of us)? In the final analysis, it is simply because might makes right, and we humans, thanks to the intelligence afforded us by the complexity of our brains and our embeddedness in rich languages and cultures, are indeed high and mighty, relative to the "lower" animals (and vegetables). By virtue of our might, we are forced to establish some sort of ranking of creatures, whether we do so as a result of long and careful personal reflections or simply go along with the compelling flow of the masses. Are cows just as comfortably killable as mosquitoes? Would you feel any less troubled by swatting a fly preening on a wall than by beheading a chicken quivering on a block? — Douglas R. Hofstadter

In any moment, no matter how lost we feel, we can take refuge in presence and love. We need only pause, breathe, and open to the experience of aliveness within us. In that wakeful openness, we come home to the peace and freedom of our natural awareness. — Tara Brach

And wrapped in Logan was a toe-curling pleasure trip. — Pam Godwin

That was like swatting June bugs off a fly. — Jerry Coleman

I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head. — Reid Scott

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions) — Nigel Short

Leftism and narcissism are almost synonymous — Dennis Prager

Do not fear adversity. Win it over. It will make you wiser and stronger. — Debasish Mridha

Dealing with people whose singular purpose in life is to create problems consumes far too much energy. However, it's much like swatting furiously at an irritating fly; eventually you realize that until you kill it, it will continue to annoy you! — Carlos Wallace

Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no. — Tamora Pierce

My old geography professor once told his class how the music, paintings, sculptures, and books of the world are mirror in which people see versions of themselves. — Simon Van Booy

I think the correct term for this was 'pissing contest', and though I was flattered, I didn't have time for it. — Kim Harrington

The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4 — Judith Lewis Herman

Those who can't do, teach! — Woody Allen

While many have been left behind by Part D, there is a clear winner: the drug industry. Independent analysts predict that Part D will increase drug industry profits by $139 billion over the next eight years. Glaxo-SmithKline's second-quarter net income already jumped 14 percent, and other leading drug companies also have benefited. — Louise Slaughter