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.

S. Walker

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

Steve Ballmer

In this world, it should be easy for me to tell my travel agent Web site to make sure to update my calendar with my trip and to page my mother if my flight is going to be more than an hour late.

Ken Harris

I suggested to my agent that they swap spouses, but that didn't go over very well.

Bob Boone

His agent said he could get him a job next year. I hope he's right.

Brian Burke

I'm told his knee is fine. He struggled a bit in his last year at Colorado. With the style we're going to play and the rules, he can play a number of years after this year. It's up to Teemu. I made it clear to his agent we're certainly not looking at this as a one-year thing.

Derrek Lee

I'm telling you, it was horrible. I told my agent if we lose, I'm moving out of the country.

David Moffett

I'll be having face to face talks with Gavin and his agent to see if we can sort this out.

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.

Brian Meehan

They allowed it to be physical, and that's just the way it is.

Tim Craft

We really got after them on defense. That allowed us to get off to such a quick start.

Dean Stoyer

Do we think he has the same value he did two or three years ago? Absolutely. He's certainly has been the cornerstone for our business, lending credibility and brand awareness, allowing us to create a golf company within Nike.

Ed Kubo

And they also initiated inspections on the establishments as a form of coercion, to allow the money to keep on coming in.

Joe Leone

And there will be a lot of other amenities that will allow ourselves to market to that demographic - restaurants for example.

John Ashcroft

And you could as a result of that information be provided a visa which will allow you to be in the United States, allow you if necessary to work in the United States and provide a basis for your someday becoming a citizen.

Herbie Hancock

And you allow yourself to play off that plane. You're in this dark room of unknowns, you allow yourself to go there.

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.

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.

Ray Park

Growing up as a kid, I wanted to be a ninja. In martial arts, even though I did Chinese kung fu, I always wanted to be this secret samurai or a ninja. There's something about ninjas that was very appealing to me as a kid. So of course, I was climbing a lot of trees and other things and getting up to mischief - good mischief.

Margaret Chabris

You buy it at the counter, take it out of the box, and you can be talking to whomever you want in the parking lot. There's no having to sign up. . . . That appeals to everyone,

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.

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.

Mike Shanahan

(The official) made the call, we'll live with it. But you don't see a lot of calls like that in high school.

Amy Williams

Even when she calls me sometimes, I wish I had something to offer her to make a day go easier, to make a night go faster.

Bill Scott

That is Matt?s call. If he sees that he can make it, he calls the fake. He made it easily.

Chairon Isenia

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

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.

Max Cleland

Deployments have increased some 300 percent, and the military has been decreased by a third: Hello, good morning -- you can't keep that up forever, ... Sooner or later you're going to get people stressed out, spread too thin around the world, and they just won't put up with it anymore.

John Feehery

Denny is good at picking up the pieces. He is a very soothing influence. At the end of the day, I think people will be looking to Denny for leadership.

Randy Martin

DeMorius had a good night and Markie had some good, tough runs on second effort.

Jim Tressel

Antonio showed a lot of burst. I thought this was a good step for him.

Derrick Williams

Anthony is trying to mold into more of a leader and help the team out a lot. He's looking good in drills and everything like that.

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.

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.

Danielle Panabaker

To do a television show, one can be sort of spoiled. You get to have your own trailer, your own space - that sort of thing.