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Name and fame! to fly sublime Through the courts, the camps, the schools Is to be the ball of Time, Bandied in the hands of fools. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them. -- John Webster
There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.' -- Jim Leach
The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
As much as I was encouraged by the number of female-centric shows being bandied about, it feels like we're being treated like a trend or a quota to be filled. -- Betsy Beers
The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man. -- Moby
Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out. -- Monica Lewinsky
It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years. -- Fred F. Fielding
What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial. -- William Safire
There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism. -- Jim Leach
For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls,The learned hold, are animals;So horses they affirm to beMere engines made by geometry" -- Samuel Butler
Barron and Paul...rely on 'specialists' at the State and Defense Departments...Elsewhere in the media, similiar figures are bandied about, with equal credibility. -- Noam Chomsky
The words you've bandied are sufficient; 'Tis deeds that I prefer to see. [Ger., Der Worte sind genug gewechselt, Lasst mich auch endlich Thaten sehn.] -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected. -- Richard Whately

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