Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darryl Sutter

I think quite honestly we've signed the No. 1 free agent in the market. I don't think there's anybody else that compares.

I tell these kids as freshmen (that) by the time they get out of here, they're going to need an agent to negotiate their contracts.

Ray Anderson

I think I was surprised as anybody when I first got the call, because I've been an agent for 20 years, ... I was certainly intrigued and curious as to why me? But I'm glad I took the opportunity to meet with Arthur Blank and have that explained, or I wouldn't be sitting here.

I thought it was a sincere apology, but Drew ruined it, ... It was T.O.'s press conference, and then I had to hear from his agent longer than I heard from the player.

I thought it was a joke, I pretended to go along with it, just to scare Chicago. Then my agent said, 'Bobby, these guys are serious.'

Mike Holmgren

I thought Kenny was our best defensive back ... (but) we had 16 free agents and our front office was in a little bit of turmoil. Everyone has to know this: We didn't want to lose Ken Lucas. We wanted to keep Ken Lucas. And in free agency, when he became free, Carolina offered him just a phenomenal financial package. And he was gone.

John Connolly

It is definitely the next chapter. We sat down and took stock of where we were. We looked at every facet of the business, from management, all the way through business managers, booking agents and, ultimately, record company. We had to replace a guitar player, too. It was a string of everything being the next of whatever we were dealing with.

I didn't want to be the agent responsible for people to lose their faith. I didn't want that burden on my shoulders. But I am no longer interested in protecting them.

Shoshannah Stern

I'd knocked on doors when I'd gone to theater school in Los Angeles the summer of my junior year, trying to find an agent and submitting headshots, but nobody would see me, and I knew it was virtually impossible to get an audition if you didn't have an agent.

I don't know why he would be surprised. He said, 'I'm really looking forward to other opportunities.' So I'm surprised that he was surprised, because there was an awful lot of finality coming to me from the discussions between John's agent and the station.

Jessie Mueller

I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing this revival of 'On a Clear Day,' and I actually auditioned when the team came through Chicago for the 'American Idiot' tour.

guarded by a couple of CIA agents and some Treasury Department guys.

Tibor Kalman

Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation.

Nadine Velazquez

Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.

Jim Irsay

If both of their agents are reasonable and they're ready to do business, we certainly will entertain something in the coming months, even weeks.

Melora Hardin

I feel like I have an amazing support team, between my husband and my nanny and my parents, who are very involved with my kids. I also have an incredible creative team with my manager, agent and publicist.

Summer Phoenix

I didn't grow up watching TV or going to McDonald's or listening to mainstream music. Like, the casting agents are looking elsewhere for the cheerleader role.

Debbie Ford

For your soul's sake, invoke the agent of change called risk, which ensures that things will not be the same tomorrow as they are today. All real change requires risk.

For years we've been talking about providing a single view of the customer and trying to consolidate all the different departments and initiatives in the contact center. But the agent still has to Alt-Tab between different applications and swivel-chair between different desktops. It's out of control.

Robert Mueller

Four thousand agents are still assigned to portions of the investigation, are still following leads to determine whether or not there are any associates, financial supporters or others who are still in the United States.

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I would say the check-in process over the next five years is just going to change dramatically, and it will be an unusual event to talk to an agent before getting on the plane.

Nicholas Sparks

I wrote the first five pages last because I knew those would take a lot of time and had to be perfect to get the attention of an agent right away.

Vince Young

Just talking to my agent and manager and guys that we just know, you never know what's going to happen. You've got to be prepared and ready to meet these great coaches and great teams and players, and interact with those guys just in case you do get picked by them.

Jon stepped up. He made a statement about who he is. He could have gone the free agent route next year and potentially commanded more years and more money. That was less of a concern than his wanting to be here.

John Hancock owned one of the wharves. It needed repair. In this letter he instructs his agent in Plymouth to just sell it.

Chord Overstreet

I talked to my agent and said that, basically, I'm the Taylor Lautner of TV. We both have our shirts off a lot. And we have the same agent, so we goof around about it. I'm waiting to open a script and see my shirt on.

It all started here at M. D. Anderson with the concept, vector development, preclinical trials and the first phase of testing. This agent has clinical benefit, and because of its novelty and lack of interest by major pharmaceutical companies, the only way to make it available to patients was to start a biotech company. But it has been a long road.

It angers me. His agents told him he's going the first day of the draft. That's what they told him. They are pieces of garbage.

Burt Reynolds fired his agent after 'Boogie Nights.' If he has a lick of sense in his head, he'll kill his agent after 'Dukes of Hazzard.'

Jon Kitna

Basically, the money has been cut in half because there are more free agents on the market with less money to spend on them. This whole situation, it's not good for any of us and it's not good for the game. Something that was so healthy is now not so healthy.

Chris Dodd

Because they breathe more times per minute than adults, they are more susceptible to biological or chemical agents, ... Because their skin is thinner than that of adults, they are more susceptible to toxic agents that can pass through skin.

Chris (Ryan) is a key free agent signing for us. This move will help us get back to being a championship-caliber team.