Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Bertuzzi

I want to take this opportunity to thank Canucks fans and the city of Vancouver for all of your kind wishes. Your support, coupled with that of my teammates, Canucks ownership, management and staff and my agent Pat Morris have been a great help in these very difficult times.

Barton Gellman

On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.

On a regular basis, to appease White House or campaign staffs, Secret Service officials order agents to ignore basic security rules and let people into events without being put through a magnetometer or metal detector.

After talking with my agent and thinking it over, I decided this is the best opportunity for me to further my career.

Again, I think we're going to see a lot of revenue growth coming within the next quarter or so, and I believe that it's basically an infrastructure B2B for the Internet, where you can research engines, where you can create your own agents and what not, and management is doing a great job. I'm looking for this stock to really do quite nicely over the next six-to-18 months.

It's not a state policy but there are agents of national police involved in social cleansing.

Independent agents throughout the country sell Drive Insurance more often than any other brand and we're so glad we can now invite agents to offer it to their New Jersey customers. Independent agents sell a variety of companies' products, so they're able to put together insurance packages for their customers that feature the best-of-breed companies. For auto, that means a package featuring Drive Insurance.

Jake Johnson

In L.A., if you're in improv, and you're on those stages, all the big agents and managers and producers are watching those shows. They're not flying to Chicago to see the show. People are booking jobs off the stages in L.A. who aren't more talented than the guys in Chicago. But the most guys book out of L.A., and the second is New York.

John Updike

In leaving New York in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of agents and would-be's and with-it nonparticipants; this world seemed unnutritious and interfering.

Nolan Richardson

I'm interested in a major college coaching job, period, ... I have an agent who's working on finding me a job either in college or in the professional ranks. I said years ago that I want to win another national championship, and the only way I can do that is to be coaching.

I know that the appointed property agents are talking to a lot of interested people (investors), just wait. On Feb 27, we will tell the whole world about it.

I'm not going to fly some fly-by-night carrier that's going to get me to the Bahamas the cheapest. If you're letting the travel agent book and you say, 'I want the lowest possible fare,' that works OK in the U.S. and Canada, but I'm not sure I'd use that in other parts of the world.

I'm exhausted, but it goes with the territory. My agent says I'm out there making money so just keep going.

Kiefer Sutherland

I'm federal agent Jack Bauer, and this is the longest day of my life.

Dwane Casey

I just want to coach basketball. I don't want to worry about the salary cap and agents calling.

Jane Green

I left my job as a feature writer on a newspaper to write a book, then sent it off to a number of agents thinking they would all reject me. Within a week, most had come back to say they loved what they had read, which then led to a bidding war for my first two novels.

I hope to reach an official agreement. My agent has told me that the club is prepared to propose terms that could ease the way for me to play in the majors.

Brian Cook

I hope they do, but if they don't it's not going to be the end of the world because I'll be able to opt out and be a free agent and go somewhere where I'm a good fit.

Aaron Sorkin

I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy. I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?" And I really, really don't.

Melvin Mora

I'm trying to negotiate my contract. If I don't agree, I'm going to be a free agent as a third baseman, not as a center fielder. The Orioles are my family, and I need to prepare for the season.

Lucy Punch

I'm sure my agents would like me to play leading roles, and I guess I should, but I'm more interested in the character parts. They're more fun, challenging and interesting.

Michelle Paver

In general, when I'm writing, I concentrate on the story itself, and I leave it to other people, such as agents and publishers, to work out who it's for.

Ohio State University Extension is excited about the opportunity to host Extension agents from around the country for a week, and show off our state, our university and our outstanding Extension and research programs.

Julie Burchill

No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.

It was a good year to be a free agent as a pitcher. There was a lot of teams seeking pitching. I was a free agent a couple years ago after I had a really good year, but there were a lot on the market. This year there wasn't very many out there, so everybody's stock rose.

It was out there. My agent loved it -- my name was flying around everywhere. But I was always set up to be a Mariner.

It was one of their pitches (during free agent visits). The same kind of big guy, the same hard-nosed runner. We have no choice. We've got to make it go.

I want to continue to be the change agent I have been over 20 years.

Marcus Washington

I want to come out every day and work like I'm a free agent coming out of butt-scratch university.

I want them (the agencies) to have a way to raise awareness and funds, ... I lost my publicist and agent because this wasn't the Hollywood way. I could have sold it to a studio, who wanted to make it into a film starring Julia Roberts, but they would have been the ones making the money, not the people who need it.

I want to be very careful I don't minimize the event because if it's your car or your home, it's not a small matter. But our trigger for catastrophes is 500 claims, and we haven't seen anything near that in either homes or autos. When the event is this small, our agents can handle it pretty quickly.

David Anderson

It will be very safe. We are experts with these agents and we are fully aware of what they can do. We're not going to let anything go forward that we're not confident that we've done safely.

Bill Hemmer

The USADA has been reporting that the agent is a controlled substance and illegal, and that is just simply not true. Just because it may be structurally similar does not mean that is has anabolic effects.