Agents Quotes · Page 9

Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.

— Bernard Cornwell

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

— Ian Fleming

I don't have an agent. The only work I get is through friendships that I've already built.

— Michelle Rodriguez

Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents.

— Sun Tzu

Would you pick me? I am so much my own agent, it would be - its inconceivable.

— Newt Gingrich

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

— Douglas William Jerrold

I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.

— Tom Wopat

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

— Meg Rosoff

I often go to lunch meetings with my agent, a gallerist or a casting director, but if not, I stay at home…

— Jordi Molla

I was just endorsed by ICE. They've never endorsed anybody before on immigration. I was just endorsed by ICE. I was just…

— Donald Trump

The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of…

— Thomas A. Edison

I used to wear sweats and a T-shirt to auditions, but my agent would yell at me and tell me I had…

— Kellan Lutz

Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or…

— Alister E. McGrath

A biological agent, I’ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s…

— Simon Pegg

We grow up with this idea that we're all individual agents. We work, make our money, have our place to live and…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I don't like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my…

— King Hu

No, I never thought of it in those terms. I used to go into agents' offices and they'd have pictures of these…

— Eli Wallach

I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage –…

— Jean Giraudoux

The Tunisian blogger and activist Sami Ben Gharbia has written passionately about how U.S. government involvement in grassroots digital spaces can endanger…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [...]. All of this was part of a well-financed…

— Eustace Mullins

Basically, actors arrive in a bubble. They have a little sealed bubble around them and it's basically [comprised of] their agents, their…

— Danny Boyle

My first motion capture game was with Sony - 'NBA: The Life.' It was very ahead of its time. Brandon Akiaten, he…

— Nolan North

When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of…

— Rodney Dangerfield

Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I didn't tell anybody [had got a role at As Good As It Gets], because I was just going, "Well, that was…

— Julie Benz

I work at a record label where I have archives. These things [memorabilia] occurred and are important to somebody, and they're important…

— Ian MacKaye

On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping…

— Philip Pullman

It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar…

— Frederick Soddy

We may say with truth and meaning, that governments are more or less republican, as they have more or less of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

American banks may have been unable to supply adequate loans, but the Rothschild consortium in Britain was both able and willing. It…

— G. Edward Griffin

The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as…

— Grace Lee Boggs

No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help…

— H. L. Mencken

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

— Kathleen Winsor

All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.

— Tom Clancy

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

— Muhammad Iqbal

The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.

— Nat Hentoff

I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me.

— Michael Pena

Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer.

— Ethel Waters

It's difficult when there are free agents, because so many clubs are interested in them.

— Alessandro Nesta

I have never discussed a player contract with an agent and I like to think I never will.

— Walter O'Malley