Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Steele

I did 'Spanglish' and went back home, and the next thing I did was my high school play. My agents at the time were like, 'Uh. What?'

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

The whole concept of the travel agent is absurd. They appear to be agents of the traveller but are actually agents of the airlines.

Arthur Hiller

Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement.

George Combe

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.

We are not agents of law enforcement, we are family consultants. Our goal is to face problems within the family structure to preclude outside intervention.

Tim Wise

Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent's faith, and we have an obligation to insist that they be so exposed, at least in public schools, if not elsewhere.

Vincent Gallo

I've never been a popular person, but it doesn't matter. I have everything in my life that I want. I'm not a walking publicity stunt. I'm not an anarchist, or bitter. I'm not trying to be subversive. I just try to remain unguarded, unprotected by fear, and agents and publicists, and I feel comfortable that way.

Lee Kuan Yew

America's greatest long-term influence on China comes from playing host to the thousands of students who come from China each year, some of the ablest Chinese scholars and scientists. They will be the most powerful agents for change in China.

Value is created for the customer, and that allows our suppliers, agents and staff that work with Sany to obtain success.

Lars Peter Hansen

If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

Bill Thomas

Western Union's Agents play an instrumental role in delivering quality service that consumers have come to expect. Western Union and Brooks Eckerd Pharmacy have a shared interest in and commitment to exceeding these expectations.

Brad Thor

Authors should do multiple submissions to agents. I mean, that's the way the business world works and whether or not the industry likes it or not, they can't stop you from submitting to multiple agents and you know what? If an agent misses out on you because they took too long with your query letter, tough luck for them.

Kate Mara

When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our people are used to these kind of incidents, and our intelligence agents found the footprints of Britain in the same incidents before,

Our special agents haven't seen (such) a widespread investigation since the days of Jesse James,

Our software allows agents to send out automatic e-greetings on birthdays, anniversary, the changing of the clocks twice a year. Remembering customers at times they would not expect you to remember them has a strong emotional appeal.

Our focus has always been to anticipate the needs of agents and clients and meet them with the very best marketing and technology tools. Approximately 35 percent of all residential sales in 2004 were second homes. The Windermere Destinations program is in direct response to the steady increase of second home ownership and the need for specialized, results-driven marketing resources for these buyers and sellers.

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.

Our committee has a lot of work to do before we truly think about implementing a guest worker program in this country. I say that because our Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents drive by day-labor centers knowing that illegal aliens loiter the street corner in search of illegal work but do nothing. I don't know how we can reasonably create a system for 10 million illegal aliens when we cannot currently handle the workload on our desks.

Subcomandante Marcos

Surely the agents of the government, businessmen and political parties have sent to inform you what happens here. After hearing us and hearing you, they will write in their report a false alarm. There's nothing to be worried about. The suspects are crazy and they haven't noticed each other. End of report.

James Harris

Some of the rumors out there are true and some are not. I imagine people hear about some of the workouts, then I imagine that some of the agents put information out there so that their player's stock appears to be on the rise. Then somebody doesn't run well, so his stock supposedly drops. But for us, it's more of a process.

Jose Bautista

Some of the free agents we signed have been known to hit home runs. And I think some of our young players have pretty good pop, as well. It's just a matter of time until we're hitting like this consistently.

J. Taylor

Lloyd was asked to speak as a healthcare consultant to physicians, hospital administrators, agents and brokers at very high profile events. Without exception, participants mentioned Lloyd's speech as the high point of the event. It was evident he had researched the organization and the audience.

I think the security agents are closing in on the kidnappers.

I think there's a handful of guys that ended up being lucky in that way, ... Some guys who were free agents actually had to take a little bit of a hit but it just all depends on who's available and at what time. There was only a handful of defencemen in my situation so it made things a little easier for me, I guess.

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.

RE/MAX represents the top of our profession and it provides excellent services to agents and clients.

Ernie Grunfeld

Our number one priority is to keep our own players, ... Larry Hughes's situation we want to deal with first, and then we have some other free agents we also want to deal with.

Our mission is to give real estate agents the recognition they deserve by giving their clients a voice and a platform in which consumers can read reviews from others' experiences.

But this is uncharted territory. We've never seen this kind of destruction. There are relief efforts down there and you have real estate agents as refugees. There is too little known at this time.

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.

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.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.