Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's just staggering to me, and I know it from personal experience. I've seen agents in wheeling chairs so they can wheel in between several desktops.

Wayne Smith

It seems to me the simple fact that they didn't register as agents was not very damning. I don't see that they did any harm while they were here.

It's a significant issue for the business. We need to do a much better job in preparing our real estate agents for the real world.

It's a big issue, but as with any sport, that's what happens. What's enough? At some point you've got to say, 'It's enough. Here's what we're going to do; that's all we're going to do.' But then you have agents and you have all these people. They want more, more, more, more, more. You can only do so much.

Gerard Butler

My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.

Henry Louis Gates

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

Immanuel Kant

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

Jena Malone

I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

Fred Allen

My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get, except the blinding headaches.

Ezra Taft Benson

Satan works through human agents.

George Burns

When I wasn't working, I put the blame directly where it belonged - I blamed my agent. When I didn't have an agent, I spent time looking for a new agent so I would have somebody to blame.

Richard Butler

Biology is a black hole. Biological agents are an area where they have never told us the truth.

The most important thing is that we caught them red-handed while they were in contact with their agents (and established) that they were financing some non-governmental organizations.

Hillary Clinton

Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance.

The thing about Ryan as a player is that he was always at the right place at the right time. He was somebody who could set a defense and run a defense. Ryan's similar to the types of free agents that we've been able to sign, a young kid coming off his first contract as a starter. He was productive on a very good defense.

I've become friends with a number of CIA agents who come here, but they really don't share that many stories.

Wentworth Miller

I value the experience I did have behind that desk because to make it in this business, you need the soul of an artist but the pulse of a bureaucrat. If you're waiting tables, waiting for your break, and you're not willing to come home every night after a long shift at the restaurant and stuff your head-shots and resumes into envelopes to send out to agents and managers, you're not going to make it. It's not going to happen for you.

Wentworth Miller

... I value the experience I did have behind that desk because to make it in this business, you need the soul of an artist but the pulse of a bureaucrat. If you're waiting tables, waiting for your break, and you're not willing to come home every night after a long shift at the restaurant and stuff your head-shots and resumes into envelopes to send out to agents and managers, you're not going to make it. It's not going to happen for you.

Ray Brown

Sometimes you encounter a person who firmly believes that listing agents will recommend too low a price just to get a quick sale. But the fact that agents are paid on a percentage commission is one reason they don't like to do that.

Sometimes when travel agents claimed commission they would have 500 flights while we had 450, because people had later used tickets that the airline counted as cancelled. This new system will ultimately assist in improving our customer service.

Paul Tagliabue

Teams are not franchised as free agents to run around the country and play wherever they want to play,

The state has waited too long to face the evil, and there is no more waiting. We won't allow American agents to come to power.

The start of the calendar year is traditionally an exciting and busy time for estate agents in London as many City workers choose to spend their bonuses in the housing market. Although market growth has slowed since the property boom of recent years, property is still a smart place to invest money with plenty of exciting markets offering enticing returns.

Mark Hughes

As long as the agents are doing the right thing by their clients, and you can get the right quality of players into your club, then agents have a role.

What is more interesting is the agents over the years who have stolen money from players. I don't have a history like that. I think I'm up about $900 million in trying to get contracts for these guys.

Scottie Thompson

I've trained primarily in Meisner Technique, and I've done a little bit of Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade just to get my feet wet in the improv world because I think that's really important. But most of the teachers I've worked with, I've gotten, like, references through agents or managers, and they're sort of independent.

John Miller

You have a very steep learning curve, ... The rules changed in midstream, and agents have had to learn how to report these things out and where the lines are. This is probably something that will get better with experience and time, but right now, we're in a period of transition and people are learning.

You had some of the closest people to Janet Reno in good faith negotiating to try to avert this. And I believe that to send, you know, armed agents with gun point and with a mask on the holiest of weekends is simply something we expect in Castro's Cuba, and not here,

We spend an entire day with agents sharing things we've learned about Internet consumers, and giving them a change to work with each other.

Brian Cashman

There's nothing to report. He's officially retired. The way his agents left it, if he changes his mind on that, they will let us know. I'm not going to harass them. We have a great relationship.

Mark Teahen

I stayed up watching last night, to see if it passed. I think it's great for the team. It'll bring in free agents. Other free agents know that Kansas City is a great town but may have held back because of the other facilities.

James Gleick

Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it about telemarketers interrupting your supper with cold calls? It depends. Mainly, of course, it depends on whether you live in a totalitarian or a free society.

The fence in itself is a force multiplier. It allows Border Patrol agents to refocus their attention to other areas because it won't require as many Border Patrol agents to monitor a location as it would without a fence.