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.

John Jones

People talk about HP being a broken company, but they're not a broken company, ... Half of their business is printers and, they're growing at as much as 16 percent.

Amy Lowell

Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.

Hal Stratton

We haven't had any fatalities with this particular product, ... But whenever we see broken limbs, particularly when it's in a situation where it's your bed, it's a very serious problem.

Tom Shields

Moving on after a break up is a great way to get back on your feet and start feeling happy again.

Michael Penn

Knowing when it is over is the beginning of a new life and the end of an old one.

Matthieu Ricard

Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure as he is inflated by success. He is able to fully live his experiences in the context of a vast and profound serenity, since he understands that experiences are ephemeral and that it is useless to cling to them.

Meg Ryan

I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

Matthew Quick

I feel like I’m broken—like I don’t fit together anymore. Like there’s no more room for me in the world or something. Like I’ve overstayed my welcome here on Earth, and everyone’s trying to give me hints about that constantly. Like I should just check out.

Matthew Dowd

The president broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public. State of the Union addresses? It didn't matter. Legislative initiatives? It didn't matter. P.R.? It didn't matter. Travel? It didn't matter.

John Glover

Deep Space Nine was also fun. I was kind of hoping that they would have my character back some time. Here was a guy who felt so inadequate and he turned evil in order to get what he felt he deserved. It was such a fascinating part to play. The cast and crew were incredibly supportive and welcoming to me.

Jerry Jones

Admittedly, he was surrounded by a (great) cast. Well, now he's got a lesser cast and he went out and did the same things. I've noticed a real shift in opinion on him as we've moved through the year. And that shift is probably worth quite a lot of money.

Jethro Tull

Sand castle virtues are all swept away, in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

Ali LeRoi

We were just trying to cast a great kid that kind of embodied the idea of the character. A young kid who kind of felt put upon, who wasn't too cocky and who was a little unsure of himself.

Brian Harris

She passed our way and we are proud to have loved her. She cast a light that made our path the easier to tread.

Franz Kafka

When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away.

Mira Nair

But if I have an obsession at all, it is with hands. I love hands and I love lips. I never cast lipless actors.

Crispin Glover

Most of the actors in the film have Down syndrome, ... Originally this was going to be a short film to promote to corporate entities that it's a viable idea to work with a cast with Down syndrome.

Shane Quilling

Matt got his cast off, but we're still waiting to see if he can get cleared.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Carl Mattei

After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it comes down to free throws and rebounding.

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Bruce Barton

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Edward Abbey

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Joe Mansueto

As I get older, I increasingly value free time that's completely free of appointments. Time to think, time to reflect, time to just hang out with my wife and kids.

Joe Matthews

At the moment, it is a free for all and that's absurd.

Jason Richardson

At the free-throw line. They shot 55 free throws. One player shot half of them himself. So we got to do a better job of not fouling.

Ralph Nader

dishonors this country's traditional respect for free speech.

Jared Leto

I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.

Jan Morris

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Burt Ward

We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

Carnie Wilson

Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.

Elizabeth Scott

Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me. I looked at it. "A. GUY." He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry.

Bobby Seale

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Boy George

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

Brigham Young

It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him.

Bob Richardson

We can no longer tolerate handling prisoners in public hallways and restrooms for safety and security reasons,

Michael Davis

The money has just been piling up and isn't being allocated.

Howard Rogers

The money can then be used only for road resurfacing,

Ross Perot

Once you pay the bills, money is the most overrated thing in the world

Joan Laporta

Samuel is not for sale, not even for all the money in the world.

Jack Ablin

You needed to be a meteorologist to make money in this market.

Burt Reynolds

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

Justin Flom

Don't spend money on extravagant things like cars and big vacations. Spend it on things that are really fun.

Daawna Moeller

We're going to walk and raise money for research.

Sydney J. Harris

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Kyrie Irving

I'm not really a big X's and O's guy, but if you want to go there, I'm more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that's the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it's what it's about.

Brenda Frese

When we're focused, we can go on runs like that. In the second half, we started making more unselfish passes and made things happen.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.

Champ Atlee

We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.

Larry Eustachy

We were just one or two plays away from pulling it out. We played well enough to win.

Brenda Frese

I didn't have to say a word to them before overtime. They know it's their time. They played with so much confidence.

Larry Penley

Most of the teams that have won here have played No. 18 very, very well.

Colin Cushman

Megan played great. We're a young team, so I'm not too surprised that we had some problems.

Michael Lehmann

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

Scott Rolen

No different than any other year. Played it the same as every year, no swings the first time out.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Jim Thome

I got to see more pitches. I got over 30 at-bats in three days. When I got back to playing in the regular games, it just seemed to click.

David Perno

Hopefully, he'll keep playing that type of baseball.

Rosario Dawson

That was something that we really worked on, not repeating ourselves. But I was like, 'This is not going to be a problem because I'm playing a woman.'

Chris Masoner

That was really important for us. We really wanted it ... It's so important for us to go into the playoffs playing like this.

Jeff Carter

That was one of the big things when they talked about playing me there at the start of the season.

Bob Bowlsby

That's the way it's got to be these days. When we have an upswing in revenue from playing in postseason games, we share.

Bob Bowlsby

That's the way it's got to be these days, ... When we have an upswing in revenue from playing in postseason games, we share.

Mir Hossain

Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safety rules.

Angelo Scola

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

Sparky Anderson

A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.

Val Kilmer

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

Vaclav Havel

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

Sophie Swetchine

Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.

Rumi

We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

Rumi

Whoever acts with respect will get respect.

Stendhal

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

Rusty Wallace

I made my decision. I'm sticking to it,

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

V. S. Naipaul

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

Jack Rio

He said he'd be back. That's a tough man.

Ryan Herrs

I think having Tommy back makes us a much tougher team.

Nick Fazekas

We were making him take some tough shots.

Jayne Meadows

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.

Budd Schulberg

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Al Davis

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Janice Dickinson

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.