Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

David Morse

I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way."

Casey Affleck

I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts.

David Hunter

The perception is if two products are side by side, with one labeled as chemical-free and one not, the chemical-free product will go for a higher price. The main reason Australia has implemented the use of biologicals as control agents is because of the very high market price for organic beef in the Japanese market,

Max Weber

The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.

Nonso Anozie

As soon as I started acting in England, I got unusual roles. Although I'm 6 foot six, and agents might standardly cast me in tough guy roles or the big guy in the back, I've been very blessed to do roles that makes them think twice about how they're gonna cast me.

Newt Gingrich

What the president should recognize is that the American people are tired of thousands of pages of regulations, of audits they don't understand by agents they can't talk with from a bureaucracy they can't control,

Bruce Allen

What we're planning is how to get the Buccaneers ready for the midnight Sunday night deadline so that we're ready to call free agents (on Monday).

Hubert Astier

With the Maastricht Treaty, the problem is that we need to decrease public resources in France, so we do not have enough security agents here.

Jeff Bezos

We believe that over time this could turn into a significant business for Amazon, significant revenue stream for publishers and authors and a helpful customer service for readers,

Nigel Barker

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

Nick James

Very few authors manage to keep selling that well. This is an author that clearly caught the imagination of their generation and then managed to keep capturing the imagination of generations.

Nick James

Very few authors manage to keep selling that well,

Lee Child

Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.

Robert M. Pirsig

I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'

Malorie Blackman

I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.

Ashwin Sanghi

It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I think maybe I might have to do what some other authors do, which is do a variation on my name, just to send readers the message that, 'Yep, this is me, but this is a different part of me. So brace yourself.'

Charles Dickens

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Charles Caleb Colton

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

Charles Dickens

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Charles Dickens

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

Charles Stross

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"

Alan Greenspan

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

Alan Greenspan

...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

Alan Greenspan

What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.

Alan Greenspan

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

Dennis Miller

The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.

David Adler

We want to really get the word out to the industry to make sure they know what the opportunities are here.

Raymond Neidl

When everybody's positive, that's the time to get out, isn't it? ... But I'm positive, too. This industry is hot, hot, hot, and the economy's going to get hotter. And even if it doesn't, people will still like to gamble.

Lisa Vidal

Latinos that are in the industry writing and producing, they can't be afraid to go out there and say, 'I want my lead to be Latino. And I want to talk about this, I wanna write about that.' And Latinos as a whole, as a people in America, need to go out and support.

David Tarantino

We've become much better at doing the work online. The whole industry is moving to more online maintenance. In a regulated environment, it wasn't as important to have short outages. We do the same work, but we're online now.

John Hurt

Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.

Juthamas Siriwan

When there was the tsunami last year, I thought that was the end of the tourism industry but we recovered very fast, in only six months.

Sarah Snook

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

Tony Pierce

The product of intense technical work over the last nine months, the UEFI 2.0 specification represents outstanding industry teamwork from our member companies.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.

Chick Corea

I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.

Buddy Valastro

Everybody likes pizza! It's a quick and easy clean-up meal

Martin Jacques

No one likes to admit they are racist or bear prejudices. Nor do they even like to be open and honest when they witness racist behaviour.

Charles M. Schulz

I'm depressed! I'm completely depressed! I am firmly convinced that there is no one in this world who really likes me!" "So what else is new?

Benjamin Franklin

He that best understands the world, least likes it

Abraham Lincoln

Everybody likes compliment.

Mallory Ortberg

Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.

Bret Easton Ellis

No one ever likes the right person.

Bruce Bochy

He was OK. Just OK today. He got through it, but when he misses he misses.

Jim Boeheim

He hadn't been in the whole game, and he comes into that situation and if he misses then they have a shot to go ahead.

Jim Talent

The governors' plan is simply unacceptable. It misses the point of what real welfare reform is all about.

Jerry Schartner

She'll make 12 in a row to end practice, right at that basket. I don't think she ever misses two in a row.

David Tom

What that tells me is that his misses are in the right spot, and he must be putting pretty well. That's what I can take from no bogeys.

Gilbert Arenas

I don't want to say that he has regrets. I don't want to put that out there but I'll just say that he misses here.

Yoshihisa Okamoto

Watching big-name high-techs revise down multiple times is very discouraging,

Dean Fabrizio

We're going to play a lot of man-to-man coverage. We're also going to play some zone as well. We just want to give him multiple looks.

Jonathan Lee

When we first started, we went through multiple ideas. We thought we had a vision of what we wanted to do.

Demetri Martin

When I am given a multiple choice test I choose not to take it.

Michiel Huisman

To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense.

Carlton Cuse

I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.

Kim Maher

(Mitchell) is very athletic, so she can play multiple positions. She swings a powerful bat.

Gayle Lynds

Get in the habit of vetting your research as you go - particularly research conducted online. Verify facts from multiple reputable sources before you record them.

Warren Littlefield

I fought to make a multiple series commitment with John Wells.

Jim Schaus

We're going to have three of these pep rallies here. Nothing's going to stop this team now.

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Isaiah Tucker

We're going down there and going down to win and we're not stopping until we do that.

Joe Spraggins

We're just trying to get them all up because we want to stop another problem.

Enrico Colantoni

You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

Alanis Morissette

How about not equating death with stopping?

Charles R. Swindoll

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

Barbara Warren

She wouldn't be around if she hadn't stopped smoking,

Dietric Slater

We thought we could win. We started executing, slowed it down, got on a little run. Then we couldn't stop them from scoring.

Jason Swearingen

We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Eric Norris

Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this.

Frank Haith

When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.

Trinny Woodall

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

James E. Faust

Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.

Barbara Green

She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Gary Ballough

Whether it's us or them, it'll be a race.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,

Christopher Walken

As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.