Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Sparks

I fully understand the Catch-22 with getting an agent: Agents want someone who's published before, but how can a person get published without an agent? As hard as it is, it happens all the time. All successful writers were once in the same boat you are, but they found a way to do it.

If your agent or publisher is jumping up and down at the thought of your novel, it's because they're picturing the movie poster on the side of the bus.

If you're just bopping through and you don't look very business-minded, the agent isn't going to know how to qualify you.

Paul Walker

If you blew up some of these tanks or warehouses with ton containers of agent you could kill thousands of people.

If you could draw up your image of the first free agent you were going to sign ... short of a franchise quarterback who's 22 years old, you probably end up with somebody like Kyle.

Steve Ballmer

In this world, it should be easy for me to tell my travel agent Web site to make sure to update my calendar with my trip and to page my mother if my flight is going to be more than an hour late.

James Caan

I didn't turn the script down. It was the title. It didn't sound... right. From The Godfather to Elf? My agents told me: "We're sending you a script called Elf", and I said: "No you're not!

He started out as an entry level narcotics agent and worked his way up through the ranks.

He's told us through his agent that if he's healthy enough, he'll play. As far as what the chances are, I don't know.

Jeff Green

Housing sales in the Twin Cities during January performed as expected. Our economists have predicted a moderate slowdown of the real estate market this year. However, many agents in the field have spoken in recent weeks of increased business activity, so we are eager to see how the month of February turns out.

Mark Teixeira

I have no idea what will happen. It's something my agent and I will sit down and talk about. I know I'm here for three more years.

I have no recollection of that but I am happy to search my recollection ... I would have to search my recollection ... I cannot recall off the top of my head ... I would have to conduct an interview with my agents ... I would frankly have to search my recollections,

Doug Ellin

I had more agents tell me that was the most frighteningly realistic episode they'd seen,

Ron Francis

I had a pretty clear picture once the season was cancelled last year (in February). So really in the last couple of months I was ready to announce this, but I've been pretty busy with the kids here. With everyone making their announcements, my agent called me and said we should get this thing official. So here were are.

Billy Eckstine

I never had those hang-ups. I mean, I think the people that were concerned, maybe your agents and things had those things, but I never knew.

I?m very excited for this opportunity. My agent has been looking for a place for me to play and everything has worked out. I?m very excited to play for a great organization.

I'm told his knee is fine. He struggled a bit in his last year at Colorado. With the style we're going to play and the rules, he can play a number of years after this year. It's up to Teemu. I made it clear to his agent we're certainly not looking at this as a one-year thing.

Derrek Lee

I'm telling you, it was horrible. I told my agent if we lose, I'm moving out of the country.

I'll be having face to face talks with Gavin and his agent to see if we can sort this out.

I like the players we've got here. It's important to see what they do with some of the veteran leaders who are free agents like Keith Newman and Lance Johnstone. There are a lot of decisions to be made.

In the FBI, agents learned to keep secrets and compartmentalize, and nobody built more compartments than Mark Felt.

Integrating content about the community helps agents get more qualified buyers.

In my opinion, I don't mind agents if they provide more true information. Make sure they play well together.

Insanity is only insanity if you don't have a good agent and publicist.

In order for baseball to succeed in this latest attempt to go global, you need the players and their agents to get behind it. You need players to market the game, not diminish the game's stature.

I'll have a chance to go out and be a free agent this year and see what happens.

Cara Buono

I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.

David Wright

Cliff had a good year last year, and this is a free agent year. You won't hear that from him, though. He is so team-oriented.

Bob Boone

His agent said he could get him a job next year. I hope he's right.

His agent gave every indication that everything was great and that he was so excited about playing here. He was so excited when he was here, snapping pictures of Grant Hill 's locker. He was so happy and it was such a good experience that we never got an indication he was feeling this way.

His agent basically told me that Pavel would make his decision by Monday,

Donald Rumsfeld

I’m not a doctor and I’m not the kind of a person who would be in a position to approve or disapprove. It seems to me, looking at it from this distance, is that the responsible people are the combatant commanders. And the Army is the executive agent for detainees.

Carlos Garcia was an agent of change. People may not want to believe it right now, but he really was.