Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sun Tzu

The sovereign must have full knowledge of the activities of the five sorts of agents. This knowledge must come from the double agents, and therefore it is mandatory that they be treated with the utmost liberality.

Barry Zito

Money isn't the goal. It's more about me maxing out on the field, being where I want to be pitching-wise. This is my home team. I haven't spoken to my agent in a month or so.

Sheryl Kingstone

For years we've been talking about providing a single view of the customer and trying to consolidate all the different departments and initiatives in the contact center. But the agent still has to Alt-Tab between different applications and swivel-chair between different desktops. It's out of control.

Billy Tauzin

By falsely calling Florida, you became an agent in the process instead of a reporter of the process,

Loretta Worters

Home business owners should look at what the are covered for already and talk with their insurance agent to what policy is best for them, at the best price.

John O'Connor

Mr. Looker was arrested this morning following a transfer of a package of information, including certain photos, to an undercover FBI agent for $50,000 cash.

Alex Johnson

Medicare D open enrollment doesn't end until May 15, 2006, so there's still plenty of time to look into things. Ask what company an agent is associated with. Take the time to check out that company or agent to make sure they're registered.

Jonathan Maberry

I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because they're the only ones that will take a flyer on a new author.' That sounded like bad advice to me.

Barbara Walters

I think every agent in America is calling.

Greg Isaacs

Today, most of us think about eBay as an auction site, but a third of the items that transact on eBay are actually fixed price.

Akitsugu Bando

Many investors were sidelined awaiting the outcome of the 20-year JGB auction while firmer equity prices also kept market participants at bay.

Tim Brady

On the auction side, it is a person-to-person payment, and right now they have to do that off line. The reason this is great for Yahoo! is that it really lowers the barrier for those transactions to take place.

Matt Lundy

Online auction sites are an excellent way for people from around the world to buy and sell goods. We strongly believe in the convenience and global reach of the virtual marketplace. Unfortunately, a number of online sellers are undermining trust in the system by using the Internet to hawk illegal products to unsuspecting consumers.

Steve Davies

He's on the auction block, he's living the life. You pay so much for the car and so much for the experience.

Evo Morales

We never requested this auction to be set back as it's important for the country. It's important that we seek investment.

Helmut Newton

Well, a copy was auctioned last year at a charity auction in Berlin, and it became the most expensive single book of the 20th Century.

Karen Shemonsky

I was a rookie at this. I had never been to an auction in my life.

Lori Miller

When the big-screen TV hit the thousands last year, everybody was paying attention. I don?t think ?intense? is the right word, but it had everyone?s attention. The auction benefits the YMCA, and people can get a top-quality item. It?s a win-win situation for everyone.

David Perlmutter

The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to expand the public awareness that modifiable lifestyle factors have a profound role to play in determining who will or won't get this disease.

John Thune

People believe we have to finish the job. But certainly they're war-weary, they're battle-weary.

Don Aaron

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

Bill Daly

No promises, but I do believe that, yes.

Hilary Clinton

No, sir, ... I don't believe she gave me this tie.

Abbas Zaidi

After the England tour we believe that visiting teams should no longer have apprehensions about playing in Karachi or any other venue.

Sean Taylor

After the East Moline game, I really believe these guys know they can find a way to win. They never believe they're out of it.

Ralph Goodale

After reviewing the responses, I do not believe it would be appropriate to bring forward guidelines on such an important issue in this environment, where it runs the risk of being politicized,

Pete Owens

After reviewing the complaint, we believe the claims are without merit. Once facts are known in the case, we believe the lawsuit will be dismissed.

Amanda Hocking

I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

Robert A. Heinlein

You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.

Flannery O'Connor

The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

Ken Auletta

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

Len Wein

I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

A. Scott Berg

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

David Ogilvy

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

Billy Collins

I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

H. Hunt

I've talked to quite a few other people who would like to come. We're possibly looking to expand.

Tim Curry

I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.

Suanne Sines

I've walked the halls and met for a few minutes with the treasurer. Nobody really objects as much as they don't get it. They look at me like 'What is she doing?' because it's out of the box.

Jeff Golc

At this point, we are not interested in any of it. But that could change. It is a fast-paced world now. Remember Standard Foods? It was big in the 1960s, and now you can't find them.

John Ernst

We want to find places that are interested in music.

Steve Swanson

We are interested in the volume ? we need the wood.

Jennifer Pizer

We are interested in serious, incremental work in order to succeed.

Giacinto Facchetti

We are interested in his signature, yet we will only talk about it next June,

Steve Langdon

He tried, and tried, but they weren't interested and weren't listening.

Dan Johnson

We're all interested in seeing what he can do.

John Stumpf

I couldn't care less about league tables. I'm more interested in kitchen tables and conference room tables.

Annika Sorenstam

I don't think that's something I would be interested in, but who knows? Well, I was only there for about two days, so it's tough for me to tell you really what I think.

John Toshack

The six of them did so well with us that I told Brian, 'I will keep the lot of them and send you three of the others from the squad! You can have them instead'.

English 15th Century Proverbs

Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

Bill Cowher

I saw the play and would not condone it. Is it illegal. No? It is necessary? I don't think so. ... Do unto others as you want others to do unto you.

Martti Ahtisaari

I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.

Mary Lambert

Treat others as you wish to be treated. Don't just be nice, but be kind to other people. That can be so rewarding.

Channing Tatum

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

Janis Karpinski

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

Coolio

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

Clara Barton

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

Albert Schweitzer

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

Ozzy Osbourne

Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?

Murray Rothbard

[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.

Joseph Stiglitz

Similarly, payments for a dead soldier amount to only $500,000, which is far less than standard estimates of the lifetime economic cost of a death. This statistical value of a life in the US amounts to circa $6.5 million.

Loretta Lynn

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

Tony Mortensen

It's going to be a long, long bye week. Two weeks to think about this.