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.

Dan Colen

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

John Fair

Sales move too fast for us to allow that.

Frank Beamer

I've seen those knee braces save a bunch of knees. There's no question in my mind that Reggie Butler would be operated on right now if he hadn't had that knee brace on. It was a tough blow right to the knee, but the brace didn't allow the knee to bend to where something would be completely torn.

Don Cassidy

They always say pay yourself first, whether in mutual funds or in the bank, because if you pay yourself last, guess what? At the end of the month there's nothing left. Find some kind of investment you can live with so you can allow yourself to do it. Whether you believe Social Security will be there for you or not, it's still not going to be enough. And more is a much easier problem to have.

Kevin McGowan

The whole reason that we don't just allow people to go out and kill birds is that birds go to other places. What's happening in Wyoming is you have a concentration of crows from all over.

Michael Morris

(They) allow you to put your tomato plants out a month early.

Sam Houston

They allow you to hopefully enrich your program a little bit,

Dolores Smitley

They allow us to use this room all year and then they allow us to display our works upstairs for the show.

Jeanne Allen

They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental consequences to students.

Christopher Young

As a kid, I had a Beatles poster and a Bela Lugosi as Dracula poster, so both worlds always appealed to me. Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to be aggressive. You can't tiptoe around. It has to be incredibly focused dramatically - no time for second thoughts.

Tom Conway

Your good lawyers realize that a good settlement is worth more than a good (jury) judgment. They don't appeal the settlement, and you get it quicker. If you can get just as much in six months with mediation as you're going to get in two years with a two- or three-week trial, you'd be foolish not to mediate the case.

James Brosnahan

We are going to keep doing it until the equity of it appeals to a president of the United States.

Allison Anders

Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?

Neil Stern

Anna's Linen stores are mostly in what are called 'B' type locations or strip malls. We think that there's a lot of real estate currently available in that format. The other positive for the retailer is its appeal to ethnic communities, which we believe are underserved in the value-priced home furnishings arena.

Jonathan Brown

Even though I will be a Canadian by the end of this year the thought of having to work with Athletics Canada is not appealing right now.

Dan Vado

The deal with the Disney comics is to do stories and comics in a style that appeals to an older audience than is normally associated with a Disney brand.

Curtis Adams

Magic has not appealed to a younger market for a long time. What I'm trying to do is to appeal to the younger fans, as well as the older ones.

Michael Stipe

But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.

Ewa Kopacz

I am a doctor - it's a profession that may be considered a special mission, a devotion. It calls for involvement, respect and willingness to help all other people.

Eric Poteet

We have received no calls regarding them whatsoever.

Neil Fox

On fellow judge Simon Cowell: "Simon is very demonstrative, very old-school music biz. He calls me darling but he is definitely not gay.

Bill Gates

I think five or six years ago, if you'd said to people that software would be incredible in terms of making photos better, music better, TV better, phone calls very different, they would have been quite skeptical, they would have thought, 'How can software do that? Now, particularly in music and to some degree in TV, they've seen that it makes a huge difference. It allows them to pick the things that they're interested in, it allows them to see it when they want to, to share with friends what they've seen and what they like.

Michael Myers

We'd rather go forward, but we have to play within the defense, and if it calls for us to drop, we drop.

Charles Dickens

He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy! . . . And what coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Mitchell Reiss

I think all of us are pretty disappointed with the abdication of responsibility by many unionist leaders, ... No political party, and certainly no responsible political leadership, deserves to serve in a government unless it cooperates and supports fully and unconditionally the police, and calls on its supporters to do so.

Richard Garcia

If there's been some similarities of other calls that might match certain things -- certain pieces of information --- it makes the correlation between that in order to help the investigators to ensure that they're not covering the same lead three-four-five different times and wasting time with that.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Erik Anderson

Defensively, we're as good as we have ever been.

Quincy Douby

Defensively, they did a good job overplaying my side and putting two guys on my side, trying to get the ball.

Stan Gundy

Defensively he's not there yet because he's still got a ways to go conditioning-wise, ... but he's a very good defender.

Brent Faurote

Deke (Nelson) has Urich (46-6) of Perry Meridian, a kid who placed third last year. There are just so many good kids.

Evan Glodell

I hope I don't have to act in one of my own projects again.

Jennifer Connelly

I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.

Daniel Craig

Good scripts are hard to find.

Amber Heard

For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only.

Victoria Pratt

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

Famke Janssen

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasnt in the script. It was something that I came up with.

Chris O'Dowd

I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.

Jennifer Garner

You stick to the script, the script is Bible.

Jennifer Coolidge

I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not.

Gregory Peck

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

Hugo Weaving

If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

Gordon Fischer

I think he does sort of have this patina of independence. But I don't think he is all that independent from the White House.

MacGyver MacGyver

Desperation tends to make one sort of flexible.

Andrew Harrington

This is the time of year when stockpiles should be rising. We're in that sort of in-between period. Winter is sort of over and summer hasn't really started.

Alan Greenspan

I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude.

Kerry Washington

I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue.

Penn Badgley

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Pablo Schreiber

I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.