Famous Quotes & Sayings

The word was that I was going to be drafted by Golden State. But that just didn't happen. So I tried out for a free agent team which I made.

R. A. Salvatore

The risk of flooding is higher than most people think. You should talk to your agent about the possible risk of flooding. Floods happen every year outside of designated flood zones so everybody should take this risk very seriously. ... Make sure you have enough to rebuild your home and enough to replace what's in it.

The scare is over. His agent said he had run for an hour prior to Christmas Day and felt no ill-effects, so he will be coming to both UK races.

George Shinn

I've told him that I want him back. I think he's a great coach, and he's good with the guys. So I told him if he wants to talk, he can talk to me. But I'm not going to talk to an agent. If he has an agent involved, he has to talk to (General Manager) Jeff Bower, not me.

Scottie Thompson

I've trained primarily in Meisner Technique, and I've done a little bit of Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade just to get my feet wet in the improv world because I think that's really important. But most of the teachers I've worked with, I've gotten, like, references through agents or managers, and they're sort of independent.

I've spoken to Kevin and his agent and said from my point of view the best thing is if he goes now.

I've spoken to his agent and to West Ham, we need to make a final decision on that and we will in the next week or so.

John Miller

You have a very steep learning curve, ... The rules changed in midstream, and agents have had to learn how to report these things out and where the lines are. This is probably something that will get better with experience and time, but right now, we're in a period of transition and people are learning.

You had some of the closest people to Janet Reno in good faith negotiating to try to avert this. And I believe that to send, you know, armed agents with gun point and with a mask on the holiest of weekends is simply something we expect in Castro's Cuba, and not here,

You have to have as many balls up in the air as possible, ... In this day and age, you have to be more of a free agent than an indentured servant.

We talked to him, visited with him. We felt good about it. It was positive and we're going to go through these next few weeks and see where we are and talk to him and talk to his agent about some ideas that we may have.

We spend an entire day with agents sharing things we've learned about Internet consumers, and giving them a change to work with each other.

Ray Brown

There's simply no substitute for interviewing several potential listing agents before you hire one. If you notice that the agent is doing all the talking and none of the listening, move on to the next.

Paul Pierce

There's going to be a lot of things to think about. But I'm not really ready for all that yet. It'd be great to stay in one place my whole career, but in the back of every player's mind, you have to be thinking about what it'd be like to be a free agent one time. Then again, you never know what can happen. I really shouldn't talk too much about it until I really sit down and think about it. I just know this is going to be a big summer for me.

Brian Cashman

There's nothing to report. He's officially retired. The way his agents left it, if he changes his mind on that, they will let us know. I'm not going to harass them. We have a great relationship.

Mark Teahen

I stayed up watching last night, to see if it passed. I think it's great for the team. It'll bring in free agents. Other free agents know that Kansas City is a great town but may have held back because of the other facilities.

Martin Jacques

Israel is the agent and surrogate of the United States and as such is treated entirely differently from every other country in the region. How can anyone expect Iran to accept that it is right for Israel to have nuclear weapons while itself being disallowed?

James Gleick

Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it about telemarketers interrupting your supper with cold calls? It depends. Mainly, of course, it depends on whether you live in a totalitarian or a free society.

Jonathan Cheechoo

I've been working with my agent to try to get something set up. One of the things I think I'm going to start doing is a hockey school for sure because they are big hockey fans up there.

We had talked to his agent about it,

We hired well-known NFL agent Reggie Blackwell for the business in January.

We think it's reasonable and in the best interest of the players. Without it, you would have more kids leaving school early, dropping out of the educational system to pursue a career in NFL unsuccessfully. They're going to have some agent telling them they are better than they are.

We think it's reasonable and in the best interest of the players, ... Without it, you would have more kids leaving school early, dropping out of the educational system to pursue a career in NFL unsuccessfully. They're going to have some agent telling them they are better than they are.

The know-how here is such that the intelligence officer can communicate with his agent without meeting him at all. Let us visualize the situation: the agent, who has to transmit information, walks near the rock, approaches it and transmits information at a distance of about 20 meters via a special device. The intelligence officer also walks nearby, receives information and gives new instructions to his agent.

Michael Young

The minute I found out about this tournament, I asked my agent to find out what I needed to do to get in. My excitement hasn't changed.

The fence in itself is a force multiplier. It allows Border Patrol agents to refocus their attention to other areas because it won't require as many Border Patrol agents to monitor a location as it would without a fence.

Jane Mayer

The campaign kickoff was so dismal that it needed a plastic surgeon instead of a press agent to put a face on it.

Matt Harpring

I'm going back to Atlanta next week to meet with my agent and see what he's heard. Overall the people in Salt Lake have been great. My wife and I have loved it here for four years. I'd love to come back but I know this is a business.

I'm going to tell the agents to do deals as if there is no salary cap in 2007 if we don't have a deal by Friday. But under no circumstance will I move back the start of free agency.

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.

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.