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.

Peter Goelz

I'm not going to fly some fly-by-night carrier that's going to get me to the Bahamas the cheapest. If you're letting the travel agent book and you say, 'I want the lowest possible fare,' that works OK in the U.S. and Canada, but I'm not sure I'd use that in other parts of the world.

Brent Hawkins

I'm exhausted, but it goes with the territory. My agent says I'm out there making money so just keep going.

Kiefer Sutherland

I'm federal agent Jack Bauer, and this is the longest day of my life.

Yusaku Iriki

I hope to reach an official agreement. My agent has told me that the club is prepared to propose terms that could ease the way for me to play in the majors.

Brian Cook

I hope they do, but if they don't it's not going to be the end of the world because I'll be able to opt out and be a free agent and go somewhere where I'm a good fit.

Aaron Sorkin

I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy. I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?" And I really, really don't.

Instead of studying for finals, what about just going to the Bahamas and catching some rays? Maybe you'll flunk, but you might have flunked anyway; that's my point.

Philip Simon

It's the same for the Bahamas as it is for the United States. It's difficult to really criticize.

Ray Waddell

The Stones have written and rewritten the book on touring.

George Smith

I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing.

Philip Chien

The whole object of the book is to take the two-dimensional bios and make them into three-dimensional people.

Travis Paquet

This is a win in our book as far as I am concerned. We keep working hard. It'll come.

Gena Prochaska

That's why I chose it, it's the first book in a series. This way they get the first book and it will suck them in. It draws them in and gets them interested in the book, and then they want to continue the series. And it gets them reading, which is the whole point of this group.

Brian K. Vaughan

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

Jason Biggs

I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.

Miley Cyrus

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.

Michael Lewis

There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap.

Glenn Tilton

It would not be the end of United if we were to do so, ... We would be flying the next morning.

Joe Crede

We were flying last night and I didn't get to see much of it.

Gordon Cooper

We'll miss you, Al, but we'll be there before long, so we can try some of that flying ourselves,

Harry Reid

For those of us who fly a lot and are stuck at gates, we feel after an hour, you should be able to say, 'OK, I've had enough. I want off here,'

Eoin Colfer

Connor Broekhart was born to fly, or more accurately he was born flying.

George Barrett

You know what that tells me? It tells me they are not ready to fly on their own, not ready to leave the nest.

Eckhart Tolle

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.

Regina Brett

Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

Stacy London

You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.

Gloria Whisenhunt

I'm pretty much staying out of it and just letting the party stick to its bylaws.

Alan Poster

I'm going to restore it and keep it. I'm not letting this thing go again.

Neale Donald Walsch

Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.

Kellan Lutz

When I'm in love with a woman, seeing her in something cozy makes me not want to let go of her when I'm holding her.

Gia Coppola

The hardest thing on 'Palo Alto' was letting go because I kept working on it, trying to make it better.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Art Garfunkel

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

Miley Cyrus

When I went through a really intense break-up - you know, I was engaged - the thing that gave me the most anxiety was not knowing what to do with myself when Disney wasn't there to carry me anymore or if I didn't have him. And now I'm FREE of both of those things and I'm fine. I lay in bed at night by myself and I'm totally OK and that's so much stronger than the person three years ago, who would have thought they would have died if they didn't have a boyfriend.

Daniel H. Pink

While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.

Nick Fazekas

When I don't see a double-team I have a big smile on my face. I know it will be a long night for the other team.

Earl Nightingale

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Bobby Collins

Is that all? That seemed like a 25-turnover night to me.

Andy Goldsworthy

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

Alec Baldwin

[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.

Doug Stanhope

Theres a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue, when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.

Claudia Schiffer

I only want to do small parts for now.

Jane Riley

They have a showcase every year and you get to see snippets of the shows. We saw parts of all of the shows we booked, and they're great.

Greek proverb

It is not possible to step twice into the same river

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.

Arlen Specter

three possible verdicts: guilty, not guilty, not proved.

John Thomas

By this afternoon, I'm sure there will be some emergencies.

Gar Heard

He'll be back, I am sure he'll be back.

Tom Fisher

He's a veteran quarterback. I'm sure he'll be on top of his game.

Chance VanGundy

I thought for sure we were a top-10 team in our district.

Bob Shoop

I'm not sure what to make of them.

Bob Brenly

I'm pretty sure Tony has already been ejected from this ballgame,

Jim Ryun

I'm sure there will be more things done before it's over,

Becky Hale

I'm sure there's something out there. I'm just not sure where.

Richard Baldwin

I'm sure there's going to be a deal. At a country-by-country level, everyone can win.

Brian Eno

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

Donald Miller

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

Amelia Earhart

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Shana Alexander

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate ...

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

Solange Knowles

You get educated by traveling.

Sloane Crosley

I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you.

Sinclair Lewis

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

Sinclair Lewis

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Dan Ryan

It (mousetrap car) always works better at home.