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.

Jim Jefferies

I don't listen to Raymond Sparkes because he has no standing in the game so I don't bother about him one little bit. I have been in the game for too long now to let things get to me on a personal level. I heard a comment that he had 24 years in the game, but he's an agent. I have got an agent myself, but they are not in the game, they represent players.

S. Walker

guarded by a couple of CIA agents and some Treasury Department guys.

Breckin Meyer

I was 11 and always watched TV and cartoons and I would always kind of point at the cartoons and say, "I want to do that." And a friend of mine got me an interview with their agent and that was it. I just kind of started pretending for a job. That was it. I pretended for a living.

Dale Tallon

We made that known early in the free agent (signing) period. We fought all week to get this done and we're totally excited.

Elizabeth Herrell

Having customers get caught up in a tangle of commands and layers and never getting to an agent has been a constant source of frustration for years. But don't shoot the technology.

Jim Montgomery

He loves it there. He was a free agent and when he decided to sign with Nashville, he analyzed it very much the same way he did when he decided to go to Maine.

Rafe Judkins

In terms of promoting myself, if you get a manager or an agent they'll look for speaking engagements and autograph signings, and you know, you can get a few thousand dollars a pop for those.

James Hong

As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

Jim Bowers

After looking at all of the 500 pieces, I think they were either some sort of game pieces or were used for trading by Chinese workers. I lean toward the game pieces, though.

Tom Verlaine

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Zhang Xin

It's a good thing that it is getting simpler to register a company in China, it is good that the exchange rate of our currency is getting more flexible and that it's getting easier for Chinese businesspeople to travel. All of this opens up our economy.

Liu Jianchao

The Chinese government and the Chinese embassy in France are very concerned about the current situation of the ethnic Chinese in France.

George Ayittey

There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend. But the evidence doesn't show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa's resources in deals that are structured to favor China.

Henry A. Kissinger

The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.

Giorgio Armani

You can see from my retrospective show that many products reflect the Chinese inspiration.

Philip Gourevitch

These interviews were truly like nothing I had read before, ... On the other hand, they reminded me of everything from Studs Terkel to Bertolt Brecht. They offer a funny, weird glimpse of how Chinese society works.

Alex Morrison

I think they do have to get it right in Sierra Leone. There has to be something in there now to establish confidence, to stabilize the situation, and then to move to some sort of political negotiations.

Harvey Pekar

It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

Fabrizio Bonanni

Amgen is pleased to establish a site in Ireland as part of our ongoing global development and manufacturing expansion.

Ian Neilson

We are not on a witch hunt or out to get Mr X, Y or Z. We are out to establish the truth of these allegations.

Vaclav Klaus

What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

John Brain

We are keen to establish a settled unit.

George Orwell

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Joe Rivers

We wanted to get a quick lead and establish a fast pace. And we did that.

Damon Allen

We wanted to establish the goal that we set this year for our football team, which was to try and host the season final. We knew this was one step in doing that.

Greg Hampton

If we stop making those foolish mistakes, we'll be fine.

Robert Burns

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion

John Clayton

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Chris Bell

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Ariel Sharon

first time that an Israeli prime minister agrees to give in on Jerusalem. It is the first time that an Israeli prime minister agrees to have, I would say, another government ruling -- I speak about the Palestinians -- in Jerusalem.

Larry Craig

We do not take away the powers of surveillance, ... We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

Thomas Kean

While the terrorists are learning and adapting, our government is still moving at a crawl.

Bobby Clark

A tie on the road at Michigan State wasn't the worst result. It's not going to hurt us if we can take something out these three games.

Ron Jirsa

Once you solve something, the next thing you see might be tougher. The second half, when we didn't push it up the floor, that hurt us. You want to make them move. When they get back and it's 5-on-5, it's tougher.

Tommy Maddox

It was time to quit working on things and just go play. If we could stop hurting ourselves, we're going to be pretty tough.

Jamie Campbell Bower

As an actor and as a performer, I'm very much aware of the fact that my job is to change both physically and emotionally and that was what hurt the most - the fact that people were judging me based on nothing.

Charles Churchill

He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

Demi Lovato

If you're hurting, don't be afraid to seek the help you need! Speak to someone - it may just change your life.

Margie Pace

Erin hurt us. She had a tremendous size advantage.

Edgey Arbuckle

Boll is playing hurt right now, but I need her on defense.

Nicolas Massu

Everything hurt, my legs, my arms, my back.

Jane Hamilton

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

Shyla Nelson

So in that sense, it's a story that really is vitally linked to a staged situation.

Tony McCoy

I don't like missing links on my CV. I really want to win the National more than anything else but you know what the race is like. Anything can happen." ()