Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

David Morse

I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way."

The perception is if two products are side by side, with one labeled as chemical-free and one not, the chemical-free product will go for a higher price. The main reason Australia has implemented the use of biologicals as control agents is because of the very high market price for organic beef in the Japanese market,

Max Weber

The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.

As soon as I started acting in England, I got unusual roles. Although I'm 6 foot six, and agents might standardly cast me in tough guy roles or the big guy in the back, I've been very blessed to do roles that makes them think twice about how they're gonna cast me.

We've walked into victim sites where the victim technical support and consultants have asked FBI agents what to do technically. But, of course, we're not allowed to help in that way.

Newt Gingrich

What the president should recognize is that the American people are tired of thousands of pages of regulations, of audits they don't understand by agents they can't talk with from a bureaucracy they can't control,

Meg Rosoff

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.

What we're planning is how to get the Buccaneers ready for the midnight Sunday night deadline so that we're ready to call free agents (on Monday).

With the Maastricht Treaty, the problem is that we need to decrease public resources in France, so we do not have enough security agents here.

We're extremely busy all the time. We've got six agents that work full-time doing these cases. They're on the road literally every day, in various parts of the state, conducting these investigations,

We've signed some key free agents that are really going to help out at Double and Triple-A, especially Double-A.

Clifford Stoll

The problem with intelligent agents and filters is that they can never do anything more than a crude approximation of my desires and wants.

Sarah Steele

I did 'Spanglish' and went back home, and the next thing I did was my high school play. My agents at the time were like, 'Uh. What?'

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

The whole concept of the travel agent is absurd. They appear to be agents of the traveller but are actually agents of the airlines.

I didn't go out for a soap until I moved to New York. I wasn't even considering soaps, but my agents talked me into it and said it's nice, steady work.

Troian Bellisario

I was going to move to New York after college and had no interest in pilot season. I'd seen what happened on TV shows because of my dad, and I didn't want to open myself up to that. But 'Pretty Little Liars' had a very early audition, and my agents encouraged me to go even though I didn't think it would be my thing.

Al Gore

...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.

John Sweeney

We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.

Aldrich Ames

When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.

Leah or Erin could develop into what we need, but at this point, it's foolish to think that two inexperienced players are the way to go. Expect to see other free agents at the point position come through camp.

Many of the free agents could have gone somewhere else for the money. But I think they liked what we had.

sensitive approach and generally happens through agents and managers.

Joe Theismann

When you can take a wide receiver and make him a nickel back, ... when you can take rookies and make them starters, when you can take free agents off the streets and win a world championship, that means the philosophy and the scheme is bigger than the players.

She wouldn't have anything to do with us. We weren't going to push it, either. I figured there were Secret Service agents hanging around who'd have been all too happy to pull a Jack Bauer on me.

Most of the time people leave to follow leaders. Coldwell Banker became too corporate. Pacific Union became too corporate. A lot of agents go into real estate because they can be independent contractors and they are trying to get away from the corporate feel.

Arthur Hiller

Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement.

There is a significant trend toward consolidating systems management features into fewer tools. Customers want to minimize the number of agents that perform overlapping functions.

We have zero tolerance for insurance agents who deceive our seniors and cheat them out of their hard-earned retirement funds.

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.

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.

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.

I think the security agents are closing in on the kidnappers.