Agents Quote by Thomas Jefferson

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to…

— George William Russell

A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

— Mark Twain

There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how…

— Eliphas Levi

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'

— Bill Gates

What we wanted from an agent depended on what he brought in.

— Markus Wolf

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

— Andrew Carnegie

Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this…

— Aldous Huxley

When I first met with agents, they said, "Okay, you're going to play plumbers and mechanics and bus drivers and farmers. Go."

— Nick Offerman

Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction

— Victoria Principal

There's nothing so interesting as a steam roller that's about to be derailed.

— Conchata Ferrell

I don't like the idea of agents in a typical form. The idea of agents, to me, brings up the idea of a man…

— Guy Ritchie