Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.

Heidi Klum

I was being rejected all the time. Agents would say, 'I don't think you're the type they're looking for.' I was always like, 'You think? I don't want you to think. I want them to think that.' This business is all about someone's opinion, but not the agent or the manager's. How do they know? They're not that person.

George Karl

There should not be an entitlement that because you get paid the most money, that you should finish every game. But if you don't do it, then the agents are going to call, and the players are going to mope, and so you negotiate that. It's a compromise as a coach.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.

Donnie Wahlberg

I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot

The expectation was that real estate agents would go away once consumers could see all the home listing information, but the number of real estate agents has increased, not decreased, in the last 10 years.

Don DeLillo

Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.

Douglas William Jerrold

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

Clark Gregg

I'd be just another Marvel fan, only with a little bit bigger smile, when I would get the script and be like, "Oh, my gosh, Agent Coulson knows that?

Dashiell Hammett

Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.

Dana Stabenow

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.

Anthony Burgess

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

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.

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

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.

What Yahoo has and the travel agents don't have is user generated content. Travelers will change their behavior based on what they see from other consumers.

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.

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.

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

We threw out some dates, the agents and I put a roster together for possible artists to see their availability and threw in budget ideas.

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.

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.

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.

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 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,