Famous quotes containing the words special, agent and/or sam:
“Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“Pike Bishop: He gave his word.
Dutch: He gave his word to a railroad.
Pike Bishop: It’s his word.
Dutch: That ain’t what counts. It’s who you give it to.”
—Walon Green, U.S. screenwriter, and Sam Peckinpaugh (b. 1925)
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