Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Anderson

I think I was surprised as anybody when I first got the call, because I've been an agent for 20 years, ... I was certainly intrigued and curious as to why me? But I'm glad I took the opportunity to meet with Arthur Blank and have that explained, or I wouldn't be sitting here.

I thought it was a sincere apology, but Drew ruined it, ... It was T.O.'s press conference, and then I had to hear from his agent longer than I heard from the player.

I thought it was a joke, I pretended to go along with it, just to scare Chicago. Then my agent said, 'Bobby, these guys are serious.'

Mike Holmgren

I thought Kenny was our best defensive back ... (but) we had 16 free agents and our front office was in a little bit of turmoil. Everyone has to know this: We didn't want to lose Ken Lucas. We wanted to keep Ken Lucas. And in free agency, when he became free, Carolina offered him just a phenomenal financial package. And he was gone.

John Connolly

It is definitely the next chapter. We sat down and took stock of where we were. We looked at every facet of the business, from management, all the way through business managers, booking agents and, ultimately, record company. We had to replace a guitar player, too. It was a string of everything being the next of whatever we were dealing with.

George W. Bush

We are now learning that before September 11, the suspicions and insights of some of our front-line agents did not get enough attention,

Hamilton Jordan

I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.

We haven't even talked about it, to be honest with you. We have not had a chance to talk about what I will do and if I will do it. I know I would like to stay. They would like for me to stay in some capacity, but what that capacity is right now, I don't know. My agent is talking to them to find out what we are doing.

We know she was exporting sensitive technology with missile applications to Chinese government entities. A lot of our agents have invested quite a bit of time in this investigation.

James Cromwell

I was told by my agent that a number of big stars won't work with anyone two inches taller than them and most of them are under six feet, so you have to be prepared to have trouble.

Julianna Margulies

I was told by both an agent and a casting director that I'd never work in television.

I still have yet to hear a good reason why people need to go to an online travel agent when they could go right to the source. This will definitely be a big change this year.

Margot Robbie

I still have my agent back in Australia keeping an eye on things there, and we are trying to find the right job which will bring me home to shoot.

Darryl Sutter

I think quite honestly we've signed the No. 1 free agent in the market. I don't think there's anybody else that compares.

I tell these kids as freshmen (that) by the time they get out of here, they're going to need an agent to negotiate their contracts.

Judy Johnson

Well, I like to use the phrase. An agent must be skilled at moving from emotional to logical responsesyou won't negotiate well if you're doing so from an emotional center. If you can move to logic, you're not concerned about the money.

David Small

We hope to become one of Alltel's top agents in this location.

Gordon Taylor

We really rely on the public trust to do our job. If the public can't trust that the person they're actually being in contact with is a law enforcement officer, that makes our jobs a lot more difficult and puts our agents in harm's way.

We have spoken to Paul and his agent and are getting closer. He's a smashing player and a great character in the dressing room too. He simply enjoys his football.

Title companies, mortgage brokers and real estate agents would love to have these leads and we can segregate them (according to area and other variables) based on the dynamics of the call.

To become a Secret Service agent, applicants must pass a polygraph exam. But after being hired, agents are never required to undergo regular lie detector testing again.

David Wright

You know you're getting a new stadium and that's going to attract more free agents for us.

Hannah Ware

We did a lot of fight scenes in 'Hitman: Agent 47,' so you have to learn repetitious movements to music; otherwise, it's amazingly boring. Michael Jackson was our savior.

Helen Oyeyemi

The way 'The Icarus Girl' came about was by me just basically bragging it with a literary agent and telling him I'd written 150 pages when I'd only written 20. And I think it was when the agent e-mailed me back right the very next day after sending him the 20 pages and asking to see the other 130.

Joe Johnson

We are seeing more Border Patrol, but they (immigrants) are still trampling over the top of us. I just hope we keep getting more agents or military. We have a positive start, even though it's getting worse.

We are saddened by the untimely death of agent Martinez, and we extend our utmost condolences to the family, friends and co-workers of the deceased agent.

Regional clustering of specific cancer types triggered some investigations on a potential role of infectious agents in these malignant proliferations.

Maybe I should mention it: I was not from the beginning mainly interested in papilloma virus; I was mainly interested in infectious agents in human cancer. So papilloma viruses came up as the most likely candidate from my viewpoint.

In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.

Eliot Ness

Possibly it wasn't too important for the world to know that we couldn't be bought, but I did want Al Capone and every gangster in the city to realize that there were still a few law enforcement agents who couldn't be swerved from their duty.

My task is to respond to the two hours of uninterrupted testimony from the independent counsel, as well as to his four-year, $45 million investigation, which has included at least 28 attorneys, 78 FBI agents and an undisclosed number of private investigators ... And I have 30 minutes to do this. It's a daunting exercise, but let me begin with the simple but powerful truth that nothing in this overkill of an investigation amounts to a justification for the impeachment of the president of the United States.

Jane Levy

One of the only TV shows that I really love is 'Twin Peaks.' Kyle McLachlan plays Agent Dale Cooper, and I love Dale Cooper, so I'm in love with Kyle McLachlan. He could be my dad, so it's really weird.

Keira Knightley

I was terrified of taking on such a well-known character - to the point where I didn't want to do it. But my agent persuaded me and I'm very glad she did.