Famous Quotes & Sayings

I look for him to have a monster year. There are a lot of things going his way. He's going into his free agent year. It's his second year here. He's got some good guys around him in the lineup who should take some pressure off of him.

I have been a change agent and made decisions that have kept us competitive.

I have 2,000 gospel singers and 35 Mardi Gras Indian tribes. You can't just call an agent and order them up.

I think it sent a huge message to every free agent and particularly the African-Americans. I think it opened a lot of doors for us.

Jim Gilmore

I was an Army intelligence agent and a veteran during the Cold War, assigned to West Germany. I was the chairman of the National Commission on Homeland Security and Terrorism for the United States for five years. I was a person who has dealt extensively with these homeland security issues. I was a governor during the 9/11 attack.

Ariel Sharon

have become the most important agents of change in the Middle Eastern arena.

Had he not lied to agents in 2001, the U.S. government would have stopped those deaths, or at least some of them.

Don Maloney

History has shown to us, especially in New York, that signing the 30-plus-year-old free agents without a very strong base is very risky. It has not worked for us in New York. You have to develop a core group, then you can go out and add.

If an agent or producer isn't licensed and appointed properly, they are automatically locked out of the sales system. Between that feature and our 98.7% matching rate with the PDB, we're in good shape as far as compliance.

I don't want him taking every minute to talk to his agent and talk to me and talk to whoever. After tomorrow, we can talk differently about it.

I don't want Doug Melvin with money burning a hole in his pocket, ... We're already scouting free agents for next year. But we are not getting free agents if it's not the right fit.

Gregory Bateson

From the point of view of any agent who imposes a quantitative change, any change of pattern which may occur will be unpredictable or divergent.

Alex Wurman

I got connected to this film by luck, ... I was telling my agent that I was dying to do something with a big melody.

Jessica Lowndes

I got an agent when I was 16 up in Vancouver, Canada.

I got a B.A. from Hunter College, worked as a school teacher, a lobster salesman, and a literary agent before being published.

If you are foolish enough to establish a link to an agent of the Chinese government then the only person hurt by that would be you.

We made that known early in the free agent (signing) period. We fought all week to get this done and we're totally excited.

He was one of our free agent guys we targeted. It was just more of us getting used to him and him getting used to us. It's a different system. We've only been together three weeks. Obviously, he's catching on and we're catching on.

Keira Knightley

I was terrified of taking on such a well-known character - to the point where I didn't want to do it. But my agent persuaded me and I'm very glad she did.

I would book it now and shop around. Talk to your travel agent and try to get the very best fare. But I wouldn't expect the fares to go down at the last minute.

If we're talking about chemical or biological agents coming in, or God forbid a nuclear device, the fact is that drug dealers have been smuggling drugs in for years. It shows us how porous the U.S. is to illegal substances coming in, and in large quantities.

Clea Duvall

I got headshots, an agent and started auditioning, but things didn't get really started until I started working with my manager.

Jay Wright

If some team told him they would take him in the first round, he might hire an agent and go. That's why I'm thinking it's so difficult for him. He's not a clear-cut lottery pick. If he was top 15, I'd make him go, I really would.

Jami Attenberg

I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You are entitled to work with someone who believes in you. Why do business with someone who is ambivalent about you and your art?

Tiki Barber

He won't have to think about it or hear from his agent what the organization is thinking. He can stay focused on football - not that Jeremy hasn't been focused.

He has always been a commercial real estate agent, and back in the old days when you could be a real estate agent and an insurance man both, he did that too.

He is not a player I like to compete with on the free agent market because he is so special. This is a deal that needed to be done. I don't think it could have waited. It's good for all the parties involved.

Having customers get caught up in a tangle of commands and layers and never getting to an agent has been a constant source of frustration for years. But don't shoot the technology.

Fran McCaffery

He looks focused. He knows the importance of this. He's got agents coming up to him. He looks under the basket and sees Larry Bird. He recognizes this in terms of its importance to his future in basketball.

He loves it there. He was a free agent and when he decided to sign with Nashville, he analyzed it very much the same way he did when he decided to go to Maine.

Whatever happens doesn't change the fact that we want him with us. Many guys, probably the majority (of first-round draft picks), go to being restricted free agents . . . But we're sure going to make the attempt to see if we can get something done.

Gary Myers

The purpose of an Article 32 hearing is for us to engage witnesses and discover facts. We ended up with a c.i.d. agent and no alleged victims to examine.

We're programming these agents to have knowledge about the battlespace,