Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whitey Herzog

You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.

Henry David Thoreau

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.

Steve Katz

The policy was $250 a month cheaper than what other agents quoted us, ... And, it was as easy as buying a CD or a book.

Barton Gellman

In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.

David Thewlis

After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week.

Victoria Justice

I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it.

John C. Calhoun

The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man and have been made subservient to his wants and enjoyments; I allude to steam and electricity, under whatever name the latter may be called.

John C. Calhoun

It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents - a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.

Mike Holmgren

That was very distasteful to me, to retaliate so to speak like that (against the Vikings). I do believe the commissioner should look into these kind of clauses. We work so hard on trying to gain labor peace and a new collective bargaining agreement and then we as clubs allow agents to get cute and circumvent it. On the playing field there are rules and there are unwritten rules about how the game should be played in the spirit and the fairness of it all. It doesn't make sense to me that we had to lose such a fine football player this way. I was surprised by the ruling.

Yakov Smirnoff

We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.

Chuck Palahniuk

My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers.

Becky G

I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

Hugh Johnson

That was a signal that we were headed toward distress.

Taylor Twellman

We need to keep our heads up, because we played very well.

Gene Allen

We can't hold our heads down. I think that's good. We'll be fine.

Rodney Brooks

So maybe with the research robots that are out there, people will come up with ways to use them to take care of the elderly. And that can help me someday. Because, you know what? I'm heading in that direction.

Pat Mitchell

As long as I'm learning every day of my life, I will never feel old. Never. And I don't feel old; I feel in my head and in my heart - I don't know, ageless!

Reese Witherspoon

It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

Cecelia Ahern

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

Carl Sagan

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Carl Sagan

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Bill Bryson

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

Bernard Arnault

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

Ashton Kutcher

The number of lines in your forehead tells how many lives you've lived.

Arnold Rothstein

Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will.

Antonia Fraser

Ninety-seven is my lucky number.

Marie Osmond

You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.

Maria Cheng

It could be Asia. It could be somewhere else.

Charlotte Bronte

I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.

David Duchovny

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

Charles M. Schwab

You can never really get away - - you can only take yourself somewhere else.

Beth Orton

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

Blaise Pascal

Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

Brian Jacques

I will not stand here to be insulted by you, hedgepig," Mangiz fumed. "Then stand somewhere else and I'll insult you there, featherbag!!

Roman Jakobson

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

Robert Budi Hartono

I always assign auditors to strictly supervise the businesses.

Arron Afflalo

When you're on the court, it's strictly about that.

Ronnie Arnold

That's strictly the principal's decision. He doesn't have to give a reason.

Tom Coughlin

There was no fight. Were there discussions? There were discussions all week. I talk to a lot of guys, but that's strictly player-coach.

Nancy Hague

I'm not a competitor. I do it strictly for me.

Gregory Peck

Ramon, whatever happens, it's strictly between you and me and the horse.

Steve Lekwa

And it will be strictly enforced. There will be a lot of unhappiness about it.

C. S. Lewis

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Carrie Fisher

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

Bill Bryson

Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

Ashton Kutcher

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

Art Bell

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.

Bill Vaughan

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Kyle Brown

Typically speaking, we're probably talking about around $100,000 for everything.

David Albright

You are actually talking to Obeidi? ... Where is he? What did he say?

Jim Tsenes

I think they're focused. I've been talking to them every day and telling them not be satisfied.

Tony DeMuro

That was the way we want to see it end. It couldn't be any better than that with three teams going after it.

John Stockton

We could have one of the better teams we've ever had here. I think we're on our way back up.

Andy Athanas

Usually when you see teams do what we've done in two years, it's the same group. These are different kids.

Andre Patterson

We've done it more than most teams I've worked with.

Pete Rose

Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.

Tom Condon

Those are the two teams we have scheduled so far.

Jamelle Cornley

We can play with anybody, teams know that.

Bob Shoop

We do need to find another playmaker on offense, whether it's the tight end or who it is. Or teams are just going to quadruple-cover Bowser.

Jerry Moore

We don't see Big 12 teams very often,