"He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life."

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Raymond Chandler

#Agents Quotes #Humour Quotes #Cents Quotes

“I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired.”

Source : "North Korea Dear Leader Kim Jong Il: 'I’m an Internet Expert Too'" by Jacqui Cheng, arstechnica.com. October 05, 2007.
“...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.”

Source : Steve Allen (1998). “Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking : with 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind”
“Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be.”
“I wanted to show off - a simple impulse or drive; in much the same way as some kids wanted to play football, I wanted to show off. Not complicated in that sense, very natural; it just depends on how you want to show off.”
“Independent film is for actors that love to act.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very few who can really see. Like you, he has an obsession with masks; he is a seer as you and I are. The common herd, of course thinks that he is mad.*****************You shall see what sort of man Ensor is, and what a marvellous insight he has into the invisible realm where our vices are created... those vices for which our faces make masks.”

Source : Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books
“We have no permanent allies, only permanent interests.”
“She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.”

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