Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gary Hume

If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.

We're trying to trade him. I've been working with his agent (Lewis Gross) since last night trying to make a deal to move him. The two of us have worked the phone lines, we've talked to a few teams about him. So that's where it stands right now.

We're trying to hire 2,000 agents this year.

Erin Gruwell

I believe that all students, when asked to be accountable for their actions and to be socially aware citizens, will become agents for change!

Bob Shacochis

A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.'

Leon Russell

There are many zoonotic agents in wildlife that can be passed to humans through water,

David Harewood

When my agent told me I had an audition for 'Friar Tuck,' I burst out laughing. It actually brought a bit of sunshine to my day. I was thinking: fat suit. I was thinking: shaving my head. It was so outlandish, such a crazy idea.

Edan Lepucki

With 'California,' editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn't believe it!

Barton Gellman

In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.

Doug Jones

I can put my legs behind my head, but that's pretty much it. An early agent said to me, 'If you can put your legs behind your head, let's say you're a contortionist!' So I got sent out for everything twisty and bendy. It's a good conversation starter.

Bernard Cornwell

Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.

Brooke Elliott

I want to do voiceover for animation, so I am looking to do something along those lines. So, my agent is looking for something in that area, and I think that would be a lot of fun.

Bruce Sutter

The Cubs gave me a chance to play. They signed me as a free agent and brought me to the Major Leagues. The first day I walked into Wrigley Field was one of the best days of my life. And I owe them an awful lot.

Barton Gellman

The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the Johnston Atoll, 825 miles southwest of Hawaii, in November 2000.

Abbie Cornish

When I was a teenager, me and a couple of my friends entered a couple of modeling competitions just for fun, and one of those got me an agent in Sydney.

There is really intriguing evidence that this particular gene fusion is the causative agent of prostate cancer.

Anna Chlumsky

From the very start of all of this, my mom has read the scripts first. And if she liked something, she let me read it. She told our agent what kinds of parts that we would want.

We're the fiscal agent for the whole thing.

The government's case is based upon counterfeiters, con men and now FBI agents who have a problem telling the truth to a federal court.