FBI Special Agent Johnson: Figure we take out the terrorists. Lose twenty, twenty-five percent of the hostages, tops. FBI Agent Johnson: I can live with that.
The secret of happiness is something to do.
To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.
(The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.)" ( , 1738)
Time is the secret of life, the universe, and everything.
I secrete jokes like the pancreas secretes... whatever the pancreas secretes.
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.
The secret of life is love, but the purpose of life is happiness.
The secret of a successful life isn't the success but happiness.
Smile as if you know the secret of life.
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
The secret of good magic is another magic.
...the Uncommon Stupidity charge agents me be dropped." My shock at the "Honorably Ass-kisser" comment was pushed away by the thought of a law agents uncommon stupidity and wondered how we could get one.
Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution.
remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents.
I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with L...
