Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tibor Kalman

Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation.

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.

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.

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.

Dave Collins

I think before ownership was trying to influence him too much, and now after the free agent signing period, they realized what an asset he is, and I'm guessing they're going to give him more control.

It is most important that we caught them having contact with agents and funding a number of non-profit organizations (NGOs). We are investigating the goals of this funding.

Lee Majors

Later on, I did some training with a lady there in L.A., and then I went in to get an agent and saw this really good one, Dick Clayton.

Rhea Perlman

I watched 'The Neighbors' when it first came on, and I thought it was hysterical. And every time I think something just tickles my funny bone, I call my agent and say, 'You know, I like this show. If they're ever looking for somebody, I'd like to work with them.'

Breckin Meyer

I was 11 and always watched TV and cartoons and I would always kind of point at the cartoons and say, "I want to do that." And a friend of mine got me an interview with their agent and that was it. I just kind of started pretending for a job. That was it. I pretended for a living.

Mathew Baynton

I went to drama school and, after that, went to Paris to train at a place called Ecole Philippe Gaulier. When I came home, I realised I'd have to have a serious stab at it. I didn't have an agent and didn't have the traditional drama school showcase, so I started a comedy group with a couple of friends.

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.

I didn't want to be the agent responsible for people to lose their faith. I didn't want that burden on my shoulders. But I am no longer interested in protecting them.

Shoshannah Stern

I'd knocked on doors when I'd gone to theater school in Los Angeles the summer of my junior year, trying to find an agent and submitting headshots, but nobody would see me, and I knew it was virtually impossible to get an audition if you didn't have an agent.

I don't know why he would be surprised. He said, 'I'm really looking forward to other opportunities.' So I'm surprised that he was surprised, because there was an awful lot of finality coming to me from the discussions between John's agent and the station.

Jessie Mueller

I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing this revival of 'On a Clear Day,' and I actually auditioned when the team came through Chicago for the 'American Idiot' tour.

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.

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.

George H. W. Bush

Our border patrol and immigration agents are doing a fine job, but we still have a problem, ... Too many illegal immigrants are coming in, and we're capturing many more non-Mexican illegal immigrants than we can send home.

Pavel signed a contract with Omsk, ... and then another team, Moscow Dynamo, matched it. His agent has told me ... there's no out clause in the contract. Obviously, it's a matter now of Pavel negotiating ... to see if there's a way that he can get out.

In truth, the listing agent may give out more information than you'd expect about his clients' plans. If they've got to get out of town fast for a job transfer, you can be somewhat more assertive in the price you bid.

Tom Burke

In the late '70s, people were still getting their calendars from their insurance agent or dry cleaner. This product didn't exist back then. Now it's gigantic.

In terms of promoting myself, if you get a manager or an agent they'll look for speaking engagements and autograph signings, and you know, you can get a few thousand dollars a pop for those.

Peter Stormare

If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million,

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

In 2006, when I had come very close to calling my agent and telling him I needed to take a break, NaNoWriMo was where I found my inspiration again.

Craig Thompson

In 2005, I did a lot on 'Habibi' and a lot of business stuff. I got an agent that year.

Daniel Woodrell

I had bill collectors chasing me. We were skipping from town to town, not leaving forwarding addresses. The agent couldn't find me when he sold my book. He finally found me.

Dave Bautista

I had been struggling to get roles in Hollywood for three and a half years after leaving the WWE. Then I finally got an agent - the agent I have now. He's a great guy, but he turned me down three times before he even decided to take me on a as a client.