Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was out there. My agent loved it -- my name was flying around everywhere. But I was always set up to be a Mariner.

It was one of their pitches (during free agent visits). The same kind of big guy, the same hard-nosed runner. We have no choice. We've got to make it go.

I want to continue to be the change agent I have been over 20 years.

Marcus Washington

I want to come out every day and work like I'm a free agent coming out of butt-scratch university.

I want them (the agencies) to have a way to raise awareness and funds, ... I lost my publicist and agent because this wasn't the Hollywood way. I could have sold it to a studio, who wanted to make it into a film starring Julia Roberts, but they would have been the ones making the money, not the people who need it.

I want to be very careful I don't minimize the event because if it's your car or your home, it's not a small matter. But our trigger for catastrophes is 500 claims, and we haven't seen anything near that in either homes or autos. When the event is this small, our agents can handle it pretty quickly.

David Anderson

It will be very safe. We are experts with these agents and we are fully aware of what they can do. We're not going to let anything go forward that we're not confident that we've done safely.

Bill Hemmer

The USADA has been reporting that the agent is a controlled substance and illegal, and that is just simply not true. Just because it may be structurally similar does not mean that is has anabolic effects.

They are now working as agents of the government and their duty is to pose as witnesses for the government detailing a made-up testimony.

The governor has serious concerns about the unanswered questions about privacy, cost and the consequences of turning motor vehicle workers into de facto agents of Homeland Security.

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.

We loved Andy, so we wanted to keep him. He was in both bands, but Nerve Agents broke up.

Bob Odenkirk

When I go to M Bar there's all kinds of agents there, looking for people who doing good stuff.

Berenice Marlohe

Well as I said in France I didn't get auditions, and it's very difficult to get an agent in France because they conduct the business in a strange way.

Bebe Moore Campbell

I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.

Barry Corbin

I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.

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

Amish Tripathi

Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many of your business aspects so you can keep your time free for writing.

We had gone out on the road in 94 and 95 for a three month American tour, and we realised, as did our manager and booking agent at the time, that we have really exhausted it, and we can't make money at this anymore.

David Allen

We are excited to begin offering the Living Balance Sheet to our field force, which will transform the way our financial representatives do business. It will help our agents distinguish themselves in what has become an increasingly competitive environment.

Sherman Austin

Two special agents at the front door pulled me outside. By that time, they had already had the house surrounded with loaded weapons, machine guns, shotguns... about 25 federal agents.

Amy Tan

She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'

Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother.

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.

Robert Irwin

When you feel like your life is out of control, an organized, 'take charge' real estate agent may be just what you need to help make the most of your home sale.