Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's been money well spent. We're giving people their money's worth. Players want to play for exciting teams so we want free agents who want to sign here. That will make it so our fans see an entertaining team that wins more.

Brian Sabean

It's quite possible it could be a dog and pony show until after Dec. 7. It's seemingly going slower than I ever could have expected. ... I'm not sure, but my inclination the last day or so is teams are bogged down waiting until Dec. 7 whether for their own free agents or so they don't lose draft picks. Dec. 7 looms larger than other years.

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.

It's almost like getting traded because there's going to be a lot of new faces. There's a lot of free agents we picked up or guys we traded for.

In the FBI, agents learned to keep secrets and compartmentalize, and nobody built more compartments than Mark Felt.

Integrating content about the community helps agents get more qualified buyers.

In my opinion, I don't mind agents if they provide more true information. Make sure they play well together.

In order for baseball to succeed in this latest attempt to go global, you need the players and their agents to get behind it. You need players to market the game, not diminish the game's stature.

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?

Jerry Colangelo

In my mind how it's been done in the past was a little bit ludicrous. Guys would receive letters. Agents would get calls. Is your guy interested? That's not where we are. We only want players who want to participate, and I have to look them in the eye to find out where they are.

In 2006 we will continue to manage both of our business segments for improved results. Our 2005 strategic initiatives included product development, increased new sales, actuarial and pricing analysis, and providing exceptional services to our agents and customers. Our 2006 objectives are increased new sales, expense reductions, actuarial analysis on our medical business and continuing to provide exceptional service.

Certainly the government has a good team of prosecutors and (federal) agents working on this around the clock.

George Burns

When I wasn't working, I put the blame directly where it belonged - I blamed my agent. When I didn't have an agent, I spent time looking for a new agent so I would have somebody to blame.

Fred Willard

In this last movie, I gave it quite a lot of thought to my character, and I fell back on a lot of managers and agents that I've had, and my early New York days where comics would sit around a table doing jokes and the managers would have jokes, and so I based it on a lot of that.

Richard Jewell

I heard one of the agents talking to someone on the phone, saying there's not enough here to take (me). And then when he got off the phone, he looked at the other agent and said, 'That was Louis,'

Jarome Iginla

I really like the position of our team, ... We're a young team that has a young core that's still intact and now we're one of those teams that's going to benefit from having free agents become available. If a team like ours is missing one piece, now we're able to go out and find that piece that puts us over the top.

Jeff Green

Housing sales in the Twin Cities during January performed as expected. Our economists have predicted a moderate slowdown of the real estate market this year. However, many agents in the field have spoken in recent weeks of increased business activity, so we are eager to see how the month of February turns out.

James Caan

I didn't turn the script down. It was the title. It didn't sound... right. From The Godfather to Elf? My agents told me: "We're sending you a script called Elf", and I said: "No you're not!

There is a significant trend toward consolidating systems management features into fewer tools. Customers want to minimize the number of agents that perform overlapping functions.

The most important thing is that we caught them red-handed while they were in contact with their agents (and established) that they were financing some non-governmental organizations.

We do not require ID for children because there are no children on the list. If it's a child, ticket agents have the authority to immediately de-select them.

John Hodgman

Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors.

The thing about Ryan as a player is that he was always at the right place at the right time. He was somebody who could set a defense and run a defense. Ryan's similar to the types of free agents that we've been able to sign, a young kid coming off his first contract as a starter. He was productive on a very good defense.

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.

It's a big issue, but as with any sport, that's what happens. What's enough? At some point you've got to say, 'It's enough. Here's what we're going to do; that's all we're going to do.' But then you have agents and you have all these people. They want more, more, more, more, more. You can only do so much.

Scottie Thompson

I've trained primarily in Meisner Technique, and I've done a little bit of Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade just to get my feet wet in the improv world because I think that's really important. But most of the teachers I've worked with, I've gotten, like, references through agents or managers, and they're sort of independent.

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.

Jason Schwartzman

I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to highschool and started playing with my band.

Jason Mewes

No, I don't have an agent. I'm hoping to get one soon.