Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Bob Schmidt

We had a big growth in membership in the past two years and we continue to run training classes for 23 to 30 new agents a month.

TTHM is when you combine chlorine, which you have to put in water. And it's a disinfectant agent that mixes with ammonia, which is naturally found in ground water. Then, if ammonia mixes with chlorine for a long enough period, it forms a TTHM gas.

Imelda Staunton

We're all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique. You have to think, 'I'm me. I'm not going to bunch myself with other people.' Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

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Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job.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.

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.

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 R. R. Martin

Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was all finished, I would give it to my agent and say, 'Well, here's a novel; sell it if you can.' And they would do that, and it was good because I never had anyone looking over my shoulder.

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.

Utkarsh Ambudkar

It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.' Here are the sides.' I think I originally read for Bumper, because Donald didn't have much in the script, so I read all Bumper's lines. I beatboxed for them, because that's what my character was supposed to do. And then I was like, 'By the way, I rap.'

Owain Yeoman

From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'

FKA twigs

I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'

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 trade him. I've been working with his agent (Lewis Gross) since last night trying to make a deal to move him. The two of us have worked the phone lines, we've talked to a few teams about him. So that's where it stands right now.

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.'

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?

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.

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.

There are about 11,000 Border Patrol agents at present. They're obviously inadequate to patrol the entire border.

This summer I'm an unrestricted free agent. I will talk it over with my agent and look at my options. I wouldn't mind going to the NHL and being a student.

There has been a very strong interest in China and a mandatory requirement for a lot of purchasing agents to do everything possible to make sure they are not leaving any money on the table.

We saw him and got in touch with his agent and made it happen.

Mary Johnson

We knew the insurance was going up, but we never dreamed it would go up as much as it did. We just weren't prepared for that. We were also told by insurance agents that that was a good price.

We're pursuing trades and other free agents as well. We'll just have to keep pursuing them and see which one pops up and take the best one we can get.