Agents Quotes · Page 11

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

— Morgan Brittany

My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.

— Tracy Austin

I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

— Victor Cruz

Whistleblowers deserve protection, but employees are not federal agents.

— Eugene Scalia

We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

— Walter Jon Williams

If you want to be a change agent, you have to ready to fail.

— Robert Reich

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.

— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

I think actors really like to know what does a casting agent really think or what does a composer really think.

— Julie Halston

It's funny when people ask if I'm a lesbian. I played a real estate agent in 'Father of the Bride, Part II,'…

— Nora Dunn

“The three agents were hard guys, the youngest of them in his twenties, a man whose IQ was so low I figured…

— Terry Hayes

If I ever complain to an agent about anything, he always has a pained look on his face, like, "How can you…

— Mickey Rooney

I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that…

— Busy Philipps

It's funny: I've been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don't really have an agent - I don't…

— Rick Baker

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that…

— Norman Cousins

But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual,…

— Abraham Lincoln

Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried…

— Emily Carr

Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in…

— William James

I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me…

— Daniel H. Wilson

I am still in touch with my Secret Service agents, most of whom are retired now. They really get to be your…

— Susan Ford

When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of…

— Lisa Gardner

Zappos uses call center technology to track average call time per agent. But the goal isn't to reduce this average - it's…

— Tony Hsieh

I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated…

— Scott Ritter

As for major obstacles keeping young Latinos from becoming filmmakers, I think our communities are still coming into their identities as storytellers.…

— Aurora Guerrero

In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own…

— Jim Jefferies

Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted…

— Allen W. Wood

The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending…

— Lysander Spooner

After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and…

— Roger Zelazny

Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock…

— Libba Bray

Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is…

— A.C. Grayling

I have lunch with my friend who works for a theatrical agent and her and I were sitting there eating lunch on…

— George Stults

I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.

— Orville Redenbacher

Real estate agents are like elephants, they never forget.

— Anonymous

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent.

— Sun Tzu

Janie: So you're a double agent? Cabel: Sure.That sounds sexy.

— Lisa McMann

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

— John Dewey

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

— David Byrne

I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.

— Irving Paul Lazar