Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

David Hunter

The perception is if two products are side by side, with one labeled as chemical-free and one not, the chemical-free product will go for a higher price. The main reason Australia has implemented the use of biologicals as control agents is because of the very high market price for organic beef in the Japanese market,

Nonso Anozie

As soon as I started acting in England, I got unusual roles. Although I'm 6 foot six, and agents might standardly cast me in tough guy roles or the big guy in the back, I've been very blessed to do roles that makes them think twice about how they're gonna cast me.

Newt Gingrich

What the president should recognize is that the American people are tired of thousands of pages of regulations, of audits they don't understand by agents they can't talk with from a bureaucracy they can't control,

Meg Rosoff

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.

Bruce Allen

What we're planning is how to get the Buccaneers ready for the midnight Sunday night deadline so that we're ready to call free agents (on Monday).

Casey Affleck

I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts.

Jim Williams

We've walked into victim sites where the victim technical support and consultants have asked FBI agents what to do technically. But, of course, we're not allowed to help in that way.

Hubert Astier

With the Maastricht Treaty, the problem is that we need to decrease public resources in France, so we do not have enough security agents here.

Fred Engh

We want them to have clear information about this subject, and resources to call on.

Steve McDonald

We want them to call us. It takes a collaborative effort with our partners.

Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...

Caren Scoropanos

We always have Latin teachers calling about it, but we can't draw any conclusions.

Marianne Moore

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Gordon Smith

The person was known. People were identifying him from inside of the store shortly after the call came in.

Drew Altman

The point is that when they talk about quality of health care, patients mean something entirely different than experts do. They're not talking about numbers or outcomes but about their own human experience, which is a combination of cost, paperwork and what I'll call the hassle factor, the impersonal nature of the care.

David Rosenberg

The only reason I'm calling for a rate hike is because that's what they told us they are going to do.

Jack Germond

Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.

Jose Maria

The point is not extending deadlines but the honest will to disarm, which he (Saddam) so far has not showed.

Laura Hunter

We want to see a clear, specific deadline that gets us from here to a (final) decision.

Bruce Teitelbaum

There isn't a deadline and I don't want to say that it will be done in the next 24 hours or 72 hours. There are so many rumors and speculation floating around -- all I'll say is he is seriously thinking about this. He knows he has to make a decision. And when he comes to that decision he'll say so.

Joey Spatafora

The big thing is grants that are tied to this, meetings that are tied to this. You know those deadlines don't change. They're not particularly sympathetic to that.

Lauren Asplen

Delphi has set a deadline where they want everything wrapped up by (Thursday).

Crawford Falconer

Deadlines have no credibility. What we have to concentrate on is getting the job done.

Lindsey Graham

Deadlines are important ... but we need to get this right,

William Rehnquist

an excellent administrator. No justice ever missed a deadline in the time he served.

Abdullah Gul

Powell was simply expressing hope. There is no deadline for Turkey to respond.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Spurgeon

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Edward Gibbon

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

Arnold J. Toynbee

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Bo Schembechler

Nothing good ever happens after midnight.

Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary

Angela Merkel

It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

Timothy Leary

Anything is possible after midnight.

Stephenie Meyer

Love doesn't always come in convenient packages.

Suzanne Collins

It starts at midnight.

Soren Kierkegaard

Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...

Terry Pratchett

When I am old I shall wear midnight.

Madonna Ciccone

In the midnight hour, I can feel your power.

David Hockney

You must plan to be spontaneous.

William Shakespeare

Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.

Benjamin Franklin

Success is the residue of planning.

Brad Jarvis

Then I read the book, 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' and that really got me thinking, ... Until then I hadn't really thought a lot about planning for the future.

Dick Hamilton

It's the culmination of six long years of planning and work,

Steve Kramer

It's a question of what seats we are planning to run for.

Jon Preiksat

They really didn't put the time into planning what's best. They rushed into a project that really required a lot of thought and a lot of planning.

David Morrissey

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Leonard Edelstein

We were supposed to be ready to go in 48 hours, but it took a little longer.

Eric Munson

We'll see what happens. I'm just going to try to be ready when my name's in the lineup, and we'll see what happens.

Steven Gerrard

We are all ready for the second leg,

Charlie Sheen

I'm here and I'm ready. They're not. Bring it.

Jim Epperly

We're going to have to be ready to go.

David Brown

We're doing great. We're ready, we've got 100-percent deployment ready to go at about 9 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Joe Torre

We're fine. We're ready to go. Everybody's had enough work.

Jeff Mathews

We're ready to make our point. We're ready to get it on and get it done.

Joe Torre

We're ready to go. We're as ready as we're going to be.

Alanis Morissette

I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.

Alan Bennett

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

Al Pacino

On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?

Denis McDonough

Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.

Chad Pennington

Byron is one tough guy and he can play through just about anything. I know he will be ready to go on Sunday.

Carol Vorderman

One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.

Agnes Repplier

Necessity knows no Sunday.

Charles Dickens

There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.

Charles Buck

Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers.