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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances; what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

Jay Feaster

If he and his agent are coming in looking for the maximum amount, which they are certainly entitled to do, it's just not going to happen.

Mike Williams

I am very happy to be here in Jacksonville. It's great to know that the Jaguars wanted me as a free agent and I have found a home here. I am very familiar with the city and I have friends here. My goals in Jacksonville are to become the dominant offensive tackle that I know I am and in the process help this team win games.

Maurice Clarett

I don't want to get into the contract thing with the public, ... It was just the best situation for me and the Broncos and the coaches. It's just what my agent sat down and did.

Mark Watkins

He's got a new agent now in Europe and I think they are pretty ruthless people. It's all about the dollar for them because they are going to make a dollar out of Steve.

Jess Walter

I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a shipping agent in New York. Any writer who thinks they should be given patronage because of their gift... you don't have to look too far in history to see that's just not the case.

Keith Tkachuk

I don't look forward to meetings, but at least tomorrow will determine my future. I haven't even talked once with my agent about it. Any time you have a meeting like that I don't get too optimistic, so we'll see what happens. I'd like to come back.

Delbert Teille

When I was 13 I was diagnosed with malignant brain cancer. I spent 13 weeks in the hospital getting treatment, and my parents had to mortgage the house to pay for it. I spent Christmas in the hospital. When I got out my father had bought me my first Lionel train set, a model Union Pacific line.

Lisa Delbridge

Bought a truck full of stuff for next year and they will be out here next year.

Tim Taylor

We talked about getting better in practice from day one. They bought into it and we never looked past anyone.

Nick DiDomenico

We just had a good group of kids who bought into what we've been teaching for years. In the past you might have a few kids who were really serious, but we had a group that did everything it had to do to be a special team.

Neil Wilson

No. I bought her something at Christmas time, but I didn't give it to her.

Tom Cruise

I bought it for Nic. I just thought it was perfect for her and she's great in it. (It's) really a tour de force performance.

Rosemary Palmer

I bought him these lederhosen, and he worked up a comic routine. Everybody thought he was very funny.

Suki Waterhouse

I bought Doc Martens when I was 13, and I wore them pretty much every day until I was 20. They stank, and my dad wouldn't even let them in the house, but I was completely in love with them.

Brian Mitchell

I bought a weed whacker last fall, and it took me 20 minutes to get it out. I had to use box cutters to cut plastic and slice through thick cardboard, and pliers to take out the huge staples. I had to unbolt things and untwist things and unscrew things. By the time I got it out of the package I was too tired to use it.

Lori Smith

We've seen a dramatic shift in the '80s and '90s and into this century with more political involvement by women, and I think that's a good thing.

David Dreier

We want the Y2K problem to be the last crisis of the 20th century and not the first crisis of the 21st century.

Charlton Heston

I don't seem to have a 20th century face

Billy Graham

History is full of surprises, and the next century will be no exception.

John Shelby Spong

The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.

M. Thompson

The TV is an out, an excuse for not having eye contact or for not having to come up with something interesting to say. Is it pathological? Yes. Is it sad? Yes. But pathology and sadness are part of 20th century American life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

Stewart Schwartz

A century ago, developers thought about where the retail and services would go in relation to housing. That has to happen again.

Raila Odinga

It is unbelievable that in the 21st century this kind of thing can be happening. It is a complete reversal of the democratic gains Kenya has made in the last 15 years.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

Peter Cohen

I feel that so much has happened that I didn't think would happen. I'm shocked. My judgement has been wrong for two years.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Romola Garai

I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.

Denzel Washington

When they said my name, I said, 'There is no way I can go up here without sharing it with Rubin,' ... Everything that has happened with this film and this moment is about the love that has come from him.

Branny Vickory

I don't know what kind of impact this sentencing that happened back in '91 had on his behavior.

Robin Williams

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

Stuart Sternberg

Other than what happened on the field, it couldn't have been a more successful home opener.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Dr. Denny

All are home now, and are recovering or have recovered.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Billy Connolly

I'm a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don't eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.

Billie Joe Armstrong

The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.

Charles Spurgeon

God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Democritus

Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.

Anurag Kashyap

If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified.

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

E. O. Wilson

At the end of the day, it's of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs,

Andre Tippett

We just knew that if we were going to do it, we would have to do it on the road. Some way, we had to turn their house into house.

Don Deal

We just kind of use this in the Spring as a time to get out of the house and see your neighbors. It's a pretty neat time.

John Desmond

You have to have someone at the house periodically to see what they are doing.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Jay Wright

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

Julianne Hough

Well, I was in the generation of CDs, so when I moved to L.A., I think I probably brought my Shania Twain 'Come on Over' CD and that's about it.

Brian Boyle

I moved out to give Brock an option. I had my back to the net, so I just shot it to an area.

Deb Kapp

The banners can be moved around so if you habitually travel on one street, you won't always look at the same banner.

Helena Bonham Carter

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.

Publilius Syrus

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

Mike Tice

I think we've passed the point of having him anointed at any position. I think anything he earns now, he's got to work his way up the ladder.

Bill Clarke

That's where we are now. You take what they give you in this offense. That what we saw and worked with it.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Ron Ziegler

When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.

Nicolas Cage

Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in 'Excalibur.' That was the first thing I said to her. 'I loved you as Morgan Le Fay.'

Nora Roberts

The very young and the very old often saw what others could not. Or would not.

Nikolai Gogol

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

Mark David Chapman

I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover.

Oscar Wilde

Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

Mia Kirshner

I just saw a copy of a cover of a magazine that I'm on, and it's very weird and unusual.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Matsuo Basho

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Sherry Stringfield

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights.

Nikola Tesla

So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work.

Nicole Eggert

For all the concern about bodies and weight, 'Baywatch' has three huge catering trucks on the set at all times. One for entrees, one appetizers and one for junk food.

Neil Gaiman

Twitter is great and it's glorious and it's easy, but if somebody comes up with something kind of like Twitter tomorrow, that's better or smarter or more useful, in three weeks time, Twitter could more or less be history because that's how fast things go.

Marvin Minsky

There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.

Charles Barkley

My wife's married. I'm not.

Anton Chekhov

If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

Craig Finn

My wife is very happy about me keeping all my music in my pocket.

Alec Baldwin

I remember during my lifetime I would meet women, and it was almost like God would say to me, 'Now, this woman here is not the one you are going to end up with, but she is going to be a lot like this woman; look at this woman, study this woman.' And when my wife showed up, He was like, 'You recognize her now?'

Dan Chaon

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

David Hasselhoff

My wife is the dancer, but I certainly know how to sing.

Andrew Davies

My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.

Cillian Murphy

My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.

Rita Mae Brown

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.