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 a sonogram machine, ... I am going to donate it to a hospital when we are done.

Harry Redknapp

I bought a player and within two weeks he doesn't want to be in England. He doesn't like the way we play and he doesn't like to be tackled in training!

Steven Wright

I bought an occassional table........sometimes it's a microwave oven.

Bob Crowder

I bought and paid for graduate school by buying and selling clocks.

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.

Ivo Sanader

We are living in a century in which tolerance should be cultivated. We have to stop racist acts.

Kevin Byrne

We had a 19th century valve, and I guess we needed 21st century technology to get it out of there.

L. Doctorow

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

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

Elena Dementieva

I'm a very slow starter. I usually start to play better when I am in trouble and that's what happened today.

Tim Dorsey

If we tried to do this 10-15 years ago this never would have happened -- never, ever,

Derek Waters

I love stories, and as I got older, I realized how important what happened yesterday is to how you try to make your present better.

Mohammed Daoud

I know nothing about this film. If someone really wanted to tell the truth about what happened he should talk to the people involved, people who know the truth, ... Were I contacted, I would tell the truth.

Josh Powell

I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. He pump-faked and then went up like nobody was there. I was like, ?Let me go get it.

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.

Dennis Prager

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

Brody Jenner

Driving to Vegas is awesome... Driving home From Vegas sucks.

Brian Williams

California is very much my home, and has been for the last eight yeas. It doesn't matter where I am, the inner me stays the same, home is wherever I happen to be living with Tracey, my companion of the last eighteen years.

Edwidge Danticat

Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

Edmund Hillary

I have no desire to live anywhere else but New Zealand. I've had the good fortune to travel widely around the world, but New Zealand is home - and I like to be here. I'm proud to be a New Zealander.

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.

Ismail Haniya

We will put the Palestinian house in order.

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.

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.

Mia Kirshner

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

Roger King

She was on 'A.M. Chicago,' so I went in and I saw the show. And I saw her, and I saw this tremendous talent. I mean, she jumped right through that set and talked to people.

Doug Nelson

When we saw the site come up for sale, we said we've got to be part of this.

Felipe Alou

No brawl. No fight. Kind of a strange. I never saw anything like that before.

Liv Ullmann

Only when he saw this face, and this actress, could he make the movie.

Cam Neely

On Sunday, when Tiger saw me he said, 'Hi, Hambone, how are you doing?

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.

Michel Hazanavicius

I want to thank three persons, I want to thank Billy Wilder, I want to thank Billy Wilder and I want to thank Billy Wilder.

Chris Stringer

Neanderthals are three times as different from us as we all are from each other,

Corey Brewer

I don't think you'd ever see one of us by ourselves. It's always two of us together or three of us together.

Charles Montesquieu

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Tony Ramsey

If someone had told me three years ago I would be in administration, I would have said you are crazy.

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?'

Thomas de Quincey

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Robert J. Shiller

My clinical psychologist wife of 40 years has always had a close intellectual influence on me. When I was beginning to talk openly in the economics profession about irrationality in decision-making, I received a lot of criticism. Ginny would support my views and remind me that a whole other profession - psychology - studies people's irrational sides.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

Sam Levenson

If your wife wants to learn to drive, don't stand in her way.

Sam Levenson

I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?

Sally Kellerman

I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.