Agents famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.
-- Al Gore -
I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
-- Alan Rickman -
I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.
-- Aldrich Ames -
I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.
-- Aldrich Ames -
When a casting agent sees me, he kind of knows what he's getting.
-- Alexa Vega -
We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims.
-- Ali Khamenei -
Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.
-- Ali Vincent -
The Church is where it is today because it has decided that the advertising agents know better than the Holy Spirit of God.
-- Alistair Begg -
An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.
-- Allison Janney -
Covert Operations Report At approximately 0900 hours on Saturday, October 14, Operative Morgan was given a stern lecture by Agent Townsend, a tracking device by Agent Cameron, and a very scary look from Operative Goode. (She also got a tip that her bra strap was showing from Operative McHenry.) The Operative then undertook a basic reconnaissance mission inside a potentially hostile location. (But it wasn't as hostile as Operative Baxter was going to be if everything didn't go according to plan.)
-- Ally Carter -
Most agents hate prologues. Just make the first chapter relevant and well written.
-- Andrea Brown -
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
-- Andrew Jackson -
With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.
-- Anthony Burgess -
You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who loves you.
-- Archie Panjabi -
When I was younger I was fat. I was never conscious of it and was content with who I was because I was so loved. My mother never told me to lose weight and my father doted on me, but my agent told me. I tried, but I loved Indian food too much.
-- Archie Panjabi -
When you're an agent or a lawyer; its about service, not for yourself, but for your clients
-- Arn Tellem -
You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement.
-- Arthur Hiller -
When I heard Jonathan [Cole's agent] repeat the figure of £55k-a-week, I nearly swerved off the road. 'He is taking the p**s, Jonathan!' I yelled down the phone. I was so incensed. I was trembling with anger. I couldn't believe what I'd heard.
-- Ashley Cole -
My agent didn't want me on Disney because I'm older. But honestly, I'm not ready for older roles yet, or even the things older girls do. I am still young.
-- Ashley Tisdale -
I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
-- Barbara Steele -
The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.
-- Ben Macintyre -
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
-- Ben Nicholson -
If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.
-- Bernice Rubens -
The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it.
-- Blake Lively -
Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.
-- Bob Kerrey -
We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction
-- Boutros Boutros-Ghali -
Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love
-- Bruce D. Perry -
No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.
-- Bruce Forsyth -
I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts.
-- Casey Affleck -
A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
-- Cecil B. DeMille -
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
-- Charles Duhigg -
Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.
-- Charles Grandison Finney -
Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.
-- Chris Abani -
People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents.
-- Chris Brogan -
In a way, the web is like your Hollywood agent: It speaks for you whenever you are not around to comment
-- Chris Brogan -
My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.
-- Christoph Waltz -
Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.
-- Christopher Heyerdahl -
The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.
-- Christy Carlson Romano -
I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as a kid, I never felt like a kid actor, you know? I always took myself kind of absurdly seriously.
-- Claire Danes -
I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.
-- Courtney Love -
I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.
-- Cuba Gooding, Jr. -
Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.
-- Cyrano de Bergerac -
Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.
-- Dana Stabenow -
[I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.
-- Danah Zohar -
I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.
-- Daniel H. Wilson -
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
-- Daniel Webster -
Ive met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.
-- Daniela Ruah -
Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.
-- Dashiell Hammett -
There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility
-- David Buss -
I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
-- David Byrne -
This is not only a possible breach of national security; it is a potential violation of law. Under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, it is a crime for anyone who has access to classified information to disclose intentionally information identifying a covert agent.
-- David Corn -
I think Mulder is the worst FBI agent in the world. He spends millions of dollars investigating these paranormal phenomena and never comes up with any evidence. He's the Kenneth Starr of the FBI.
-- David Duchovny -
I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.
-- David Dunn -
It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom, and instead to act as the ally and agent of a police state in retrieving one of its prisoners.
-- David Horowitz -
In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits. There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.
-- David Lee Roth -
Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.
-- David Stern -
When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been and all that you will be in the future.
-- Debbie Ford -
Those crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the U.N.'s going to take over'? Well, they're beginning to have a case.
-- Dick Morris -
I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My dad's my dad. I'm not his agent.
-- Domhnall Gleeson -
When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next.
-- Dominic Monaghan -
I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot
-- Donnie Wahlberg -
The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
-- Earl Weaver -
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
All women are natural born espionage agents.
-- Eddie Cantor -
Healing with the clean, pure, beautiful agents of nature is surely the one method of all which appeals to most of us
-- Edward Bach -
In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.
-- Edward Bernays -
You have got to have an agent. Its a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.
-- Elizabeth Banks -
There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.
-- Erving Goffman -
All magic is about transformation... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.
-- Eugene Burger -
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
-- Ezra Pound -
I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.
-- Felicity Kendal -
When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.
-- Francesca Annis -
My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get, except the blinding headaches.
-- Fred Allen -
A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
-- Fred Allen -
It's very nice having my mum as my agent. You know that she's always doing what's best for you.
-- Freddie Highmore -
No one in America fully understands the constantly changing Internal Revenue Code. Agents of the IRS do not, judges do not, congressmen do not, and most assuredly taxpayers do not.
-- G. Edward Griffin -
Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.
-- Gail Collins -
I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
-- Gary Busey -
There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.
-- Gary Neville -
When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window.
-- George Ade -
I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.
-- George Orwell -
My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.
-- Gerard Butler -
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.
-- Glenda Jackson -
My parents walked in on me Googling 'agents for kids' when I was 9.
-- Graham Phillips -
I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.
-- Grant Bowler -
It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.
-- Gregory A. Boyd -
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
-- Grover Cleveland -
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
-- Grover Cleveland -
My agents are busy with the final details of the contract.
-- Guus Hiddink -
You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.
-- Heath Ledger -
Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos, I’m an agent of chaos , and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair.
-- Heath Ledger
