No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school.… — Jules Asner Copy Share Image
Approximately four years ago, we were told that Jerry Rice would be a free agent and there were people who felt that… — Al Davis Copy Share Image
I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round. — David Dunn Copy Share Image
I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to… — Mike Lookinland Copy Share Image
In my role of agent for Miss Hathaway, I would like to say that she does not answer questions relating to this… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then… — Mackenzie Davis Copy Share Image
One of the cool things, obviously there's 'Scandal,' 'House of Cards,' there was 'West Wing.' Other than that Jack Lemmon/James Garner movie… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
What's difficult for American audiences is that they're used to a system here where you can get an actor for five years… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in the… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
The most important thing for people to get is we're not even looking at one big investigation, all these agents working together.… — Sibel Edmonds Copy Share Image
It might sound a small thing, but if you want to get Tom Cruise into your movie, without a track record or… — Eric Fellner Copy Share Image
My agent says that I'm a 'repeat business guy.' If you hire me to come do a movie, I'll be on time,… — Dean Cain Copy Share Image
You have to appreciate the spiritual component of having an opportunity to do something as wondrous as writing. You should be practical… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
I know there's a lot of talk about self-publishing right now. Everyone's giddy with the possibilities. And I'll admit that it looks… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Treason is a strong word, but not too strong to characterize the situation in which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, and… — David Graham Phillips Copy Share Image
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
I think I sort of blossomed, so to speak, around 17. I started to get hips and put on weight, which I… — Tricia Helfer Copy Share Image
Lemony Snicket. Now, I'm told - the books, of course, starting from the very first one, became hugely popular, selling millions and… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
We are coming to a place where the road ends. From here on out, we will be making the road as we… — Tom Atlee Copy Share Image
When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
There was an agent who wanted to book me for Glee. He lied and said I could sing. He was like, "If… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
It's funny, my agent came up to us and said, "That line, when Nicholas says, 'I'm gonna bust this thing wide open,'… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act,… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent… — John Dewey Copy Share Image