Agent Townsend Quotes

#1. Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.

John Keats

#2. Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.

Townsend Harris

#3. It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them.

Lauren Myracle

#4. There was no real animosity in his voice or his mind. It was the simple desire to obstruct found in everyone, and often expressed where there is no fear of retaliation.

Mark Clifton

#5. I'm an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service. I do not do booby traps.

Ally Carter

#6. One feels relieved these days when a play is not like television.

Valerie Martin

#7. If we approach with faith, we too will see Jesus ... for the Eucharistic table takes the place of the crib. Here the Body of the Lord is present, wrapped not in swaddling clothes but in the rays of the Holy Spirit.

Saint John Chrysostom

#8. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.

Ally Carter

#9. Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.

Townes Van Zandt

#10. I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

Joe Lando

#11. Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

Bill Gates

#12. Personally, nothing would surprise me any more. If my father announced that he was really a Russian agent or my mother ran away with a circus knife thrower, I wouldn't raise an eyebrow.

Sue Townsend

#13. Excuse me, Abigail, but whose shift did she get away during?' Townsend asked with a glare.
'Excuse me, Townsend, but who was supposed to booby-trap the doors?'
'I'm an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service,' Townsend said, indignant. 'I do not do booby traps.

Ally Carter

#14. John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world.

George Eliot