Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

The perception is if two products are side by side, with one labeled as chemical-free and one not, the chemical-free product will go for a higher price. The main reason Australia has implemented the use of biologicals as control agents is because of the very high market price for organic beef in the Japanese market,

Max Weber

The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.

As soon as I started acting in England, I got unusual roles. Although I'm 6 foot six, and agents might standardly cast me in tough guy roles or the big guy in the back, I've been very blessed to do roles that makes them think twice about how they're gonna cast me.

Newt Gingrich

What the president should recognize is that the American people are tired of thousands of pages of regulations, of audits they don't understand by agents they can't talk with from a bureaucracy they can't control,

Meg Rosoff

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.

What we're planning is how to get the Buccaneers ready for the midnight Sunday night deadline so that we're ready to call free agents (on Monday).

Casey Affleck

I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts.

We've walked into victim sites where the victim technical support and consultants have asked FBI agents what to do technically. But, of course, we're not allowed to help in that way.

With the Maastricht Treaty, the problem is that we need to decrease public resources in France, so we do not have enough security agents here.

We're extremely busy all the time. We've got six agents that work full-time doing these cases. They're on the road literally every day, in various parts of the state, conducting these investigations,

As ridiculous as this might sound, we have real money issues right now, and the government is reluctant to give all agents and analysts dot-gov accounts.

Sherman Austin

About five, six FBI agents walked into the courthouse and arrested me. They said I was being arrested for distribution of information related to explosives over the Internet.

Charles Lewis

A bunch of us were appalled, ... I don't want to be represented by that. It's not Christian. ... And we're certainly not thinking about shooting government agents that come to our door.

A couple of hours talking to travel agents can save you a lot of headaches down the road.

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.

Jeffrey Rosen

Although the FBI is legally forbidden from monitoring the communications of citizens who are not targets under Carnivore, the mere knowledge that government agents have the technical capacity to read e-mail messages will greatly increase the uncertainty of innocent citizens,

American citizens are fed up. Border agents have been left out to dry by an administration that isn't doing a thing to solve the very dangerous situation brewing at the border.

They disappeared when they saw I had reached my home, where the plainclothes agents were outside.

Gordon Taylor

This guy wanted to be on the inside. Today he got that opportunity as two DEA agents took him to jail and actually put him behind bars.

Fabian Nunez

They've been a very reliable entity that focuses on making sure we get good teachers in the schools. They have always moved the ball forward, but always knowing they have to be agents of change, not those who promote and perpetuate the status quo.

Ricardo Lagos

They support terrorists, agents behind murders and insecurity directly or indirectly.

Andrew Lansley

It is unacceptable that out of the most developed countries, Britain was one of the last to order anti-viral agents and publish an emergency preparedness plan.

It's the biggest injustice. These are two dedicated agents with 15 years of service combined and this is how the government pays them back? This is a day for the drug dealers to celebrate.

They didn't know what the air quality or structural integrity might be. Agents had to wade through chest-high water. The first time through was pretty scary.

There was no crime committed. These agents had 15 years experience between them. They have been involved in many drug busts, and have never fired their pistols and never aimed at anybody. They were responding in self-defense.

Arn Tellem

There were a lot of interesting partnership opportunities for our sports agency, but it was clear from the very beginning that Casey was who I wanted to be with most. In Casey, we found someone who shares common values and our goal of building a worldwide sports company that is a leader in its field. The new arrangement is going to allow us to better service our clients because of the very strong marketing and media content businesses that WMG already has in place. I am very happy that our most valuable and trusted agents are coming over to WMG and I am looking forward to working with Casey to aggressively grow the business and turn WMG into a sports and entertainment powerhouse.

Jerry Colangelo

It's a far cry from where a lot of people thought they were mentally. The bottom line is when you're being hustled by agents and a lot of players making direct calls to me - things have changed. People buy in to wanting to be part of the first national team.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.'

It means that they put the president of the United States at risk, the first lady at risk, the Secret Service agents that were protecting him at risk.

Eric Fellner

It might sound a small thing, but if you want to get Tom Cruise into your movie, without a track record or without those agents knowing you, it's almost impossible. Now I can get through to pretty much anyone I want. Of course, 90 per cent of the time they still say no.