Quotes about Agents

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket. Votes: 5

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. Votes: 4

States are not moral agents. Votes: 3

I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack. Votes: 3

My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts. Votes: 3

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing. Votes: 3

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Votes: 3

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts. Votes: 3

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people. Votes: 3

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping. Votes: 3

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. Votes: 3

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc. Votes: 3

Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations. Votes: 3

The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents Votes: 3

Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine. Votes: 3

You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents. Votes: 3

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. Votes: 3

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better. Votes: 3

We loved Andy, so we wanted to keep him. He was in both bands, but Nerve Agents broke up. Votes: 3

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made. Votes: 3

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. Votes: 3

The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first. Votes: 3

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on. Votes: 3

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. Votes: 3

These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up. Votes: 3

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero. Votes: 3

Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them. Votes: 3

Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed. Votes: 3

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen. Votes: 3

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose. Votes: 3

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward. Votes: 3

They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people. Votes: 3

I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days. Votes: 3

I think among the retired FBI agents there are some who would not like to see him come back, but I think the people running the FBI now are interested in catching him. Votes: 3

Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists. Votes: 3

Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job. Votes: 3

I thought there would be more time in my trailer to write during 'Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.,' but I seem to be always flying in a harness and conquering supervillains instead. Votes: 3

Agents are deal makers, and they're really, really good at making deals. But they're also exceptionally helpful after the deal is made - agents act as a good intermediary between authors and publishers whenever disagreements come up. Votes: 3

Agents who have left the Secret Service to join other federal law enforcement agencies report that training in firearms and counterterrorism tactics in those agencies in many cases far exceeds the quality of what the Secret Service offered. Votes: 3

The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are. Votes: 3

We're all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique, you have to think 'I'm me, I'm not going to bunch myself with other people.' Agents and producers have to get you into a box, to accommodate their limited imaginations. Votes: 3

We're all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique. You have to think, 'I'm me. I'm not going to bunch myself with other people.' Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations. Votes: 3

At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know. Votes: 3

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers. Votes: 1

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it. Votes: 1

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world. Votes: 1

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity. Votes: 1

We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously. Votes: 1

The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the Johnston Atoll, 825 miles southwest of Hawaii, in November 2000. Votes: 1

Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. Votes: 1

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used. Votes: 1

We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community. Votes: 1

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. Votes: 1

Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood. Votes: 1

I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together. Votes: 1

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations. Votes: 1

I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles. Votes: 1

The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world. Votes: 1

In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also. Votes: 1

The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure. Votes: 1

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people. Votes: 1

The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves. Votes: 1

The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents. Votes: 1

You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors. Votes: 1

I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again something that also came in very handy for Basic, because I'd learned already how to handle a gun and how to behave just physically when you're in a situation, a threat. That was very good to know. Votes: 1

I was going to move to New York after college and had no interest in pilot season. I'd seen what happened on TV shows because of my dad, and I didn't want to open myself up to that. But 'Pretty Little Liars' had a very early audition, and my agents encouraged me to go even though I didn't think it would be my thing. Votes: 1

There are no healing agents. Votes: 0

Satan works through human agents. Votes: 0

All women are natural born espionage agents. Votes: 0

It's going to require numerous IRA agents. Votes: 0

Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates. Votes: 0

Coaches are sales people and change agents. Votes: 0

Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty. Votes: 0

Some of my best friends are FBI agents. Votes: 0

Our side has agents. Their side has spies. Votes: 0

Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people. Votes: 0

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents. Votes: 0

People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents. Votes: 0

To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper. Votes: 0

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people Votes: 0

You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents. Votes: 0

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Votes: 0

Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then. Votes: 0

My agents are busy with the final details of the contract. Votes: 0

We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions. Votes: 0

It's all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients. Votes: 0

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes. Votes: 0

Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore Votes: 0

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can. Votes: 0

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books. Votes: 0

Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action Votes: 0

I'm happy that I have agents and managers that believe in me. Votes: 0

I don't have close relationships with agents. They're friends, but they're not confidants. Votes: 0

I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents. Votes: 0

Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk. Votes: 0

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents. Votes: 0

I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way." Votes: 0

Most agents hate prologues. Just make the first chapter relevant and well written. Votes: 0

My parents walked in on me Googling 'agents for kids' when I was 9. Votes: 0

If people could deal with each other honestly, they would not need agents. Votes: 0

Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents. Votes: 0

I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff. Votes: 0

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not? Votes: 0

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature. Votes: 0

We live in a society where interacting with government agents is apotentially hazardous activity Votes: 0

Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents, Votes: 0

Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society. Votes: 0

Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love Votes: 0

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit. Votes: 0

Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer. Votes: 0

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them. Votes: 0

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union. Votes: 0

The only people helped by the death tax are lawyers, accountants, and IRS agents. Votes: 0

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty. Votes: 0

The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents. Votes: 0

Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity. Votes: 0

I never refused autograph seekers, unless they were old enough to look like collection agents. Votes: 0

I've learned you don't always listen to your agents and managers. Sometimes they know nothing. Votes: 0

We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction Votes: 0

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it. Votes: 0

I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find. Votes: 0

I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker. Votes: 0

When I say women are the agents of change, I really should say women and girls. Votes: 0

Ive met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite. Votes: 0

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes. Votes: 0

I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me. Votes: 0

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite. Votes: 0

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Votes: 0

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced. Votes: 0

The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person. Votes: 0

All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York. Votes: 0

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents. Votes: 0

In fact, I had previously helped train one of the FBI agents who searched my apartment. Votes: 0

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents. Votes: 0

I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed. Votes: 0

I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all. Votes: 0

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society. Votes: 0

We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence. Votes: 0

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.' Votes: 0

Most of the people we sign on as development agents commit to goals they don't believe are possible. Votes: 0

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves. Votes: 0

Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ. Votes: 0

Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world. Votes: 0

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry. Votes: 0

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent. Votes: 0

When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections. Votes: 0

What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents. Votes: 0

Our call is to be God's agents, to rescue not only the human race but the whole of creation. Votes: 0

The bulk of my calls are from agents who are letting you know about material that's coming your way. Votes: 0

I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents. Votes: 0

I couldn't get any work in television. No one would even meet me, and I had very good agents. Votes: 0

Philanthropy can be integrated into business. I believe strongly that companies can be incredible agents of good in the world. Votes: 0

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. Votes: 0

I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents. Votes: 0

Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought. Votes: 0

If FBI agents can't be trusted to wiretap within the law, why trust them to carry weapons or make arrests? Votes: 0

A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators. Votes: 0

Come on soldiers! Guardians and agents of the supreme law! Here is a sacrifice of dogs ready for your swords! Votes: 0

We are going to lose the war on terror because all of our agents are tied up investigating the GOP. Votes: 0

Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents. Votes: 0

Value is created for the customer, and that allows our suppliers, agents and staff that work with Sany to obtain success. Votes: 0

Unless we as social change agents come from a certain kind of spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good. Votes: 0

Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth. Votes: 0

There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them." Votes: 0

There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them. Votes: 0

I believe that the only true agents of change on a large scale, in this country or anywhere, are young people. Votes: 0

'One Night Only,' the words I'll be hearing from my agents when I tell them I'm coming back to Broadway. Votes: 0

The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents. Votes: 0

When I first met with agents, they said, "Okay, you're going to play plumbers and mechanics and bus drivers and farmers. Go." Votes: 0

All I've seen agents do is talk players into having bad senior seasons because they're trying to keep themselves from getting injured. Votes: 0

Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace. Votes: 0

It's important to underscore this overriding fact: women are not just victims of conflict-they are agents of peace and agents of change. Votes: 0

In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power. Votes: 0

The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death. Votes: 0

Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it. Votes: 0

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds. Votes: 0

If I'm two pounds heavier, I'm fat. If I'm skinnier, I'm sick. It's ridiculous. And that's not coming from agents or designers. Votes: 0

Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people. Votes: 0

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Votes: 0

Healing with the clean, pure, beautiful agents of nature is surely the one method of all which appeals to most of us Votes: 0

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project. Votes: 0

This is our high and holy calling-to be agents of Jesus Christ, to love as He loved, to serve as He served. Votes: 0

The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it. Votes: 0

In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, 'Your home is not an asset.' Real estate agents sent me hate mail. Votes: 0

As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents, and we just go out and audition for them. Votes: 0

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are. Votes: 0

Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated. We're free agents, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs -- each with our own unique brand. Votes: 0

A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local rules Votes: 0

It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons. Votes: 0

We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different. Votes: 0

You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry. Votes: 0

Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers. Votes: 0

Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion. Votes: 0

The Church is where it is today because it has decided that the advertising agents know better than the Holy Spirit of God. Votes: 0

I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with that. Votes: 0

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression. Votes: 0

Nobody wanted the 'Roseanne' show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat woman and her family. Votes: 0

Criminal conduct by police officers, federal agents, and their confederates cannot be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law. Votes: 0

Big news on CNN, a search has uncovered illegal biochemical agents, toxins and other dangerous substances. Not in Iraq, in Rush Limbaugh's medicine cabinet. Votes: 0

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change. Votes: 0

I believe that all students, when asked to be accountable for their actions and to be socially aware citizens, will become agents for change! Votes: 0

If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents. Votes: 0

I've recommended girls for jobs that I had a different part in, and agents have been like, "No, don't ..."It's so surprising to me. Votes: 0

In freely choosing to serve as the agents of divine purpose, angels are the living expression of the prayer 'Thy will be done.' Votes: 0

I belong to the most powerful cult in the universe and beyond where Holy Spirit is the ministering agents and Jesus is the grandmaster Votes: 0

The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions. Votes: 0

Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go. Votes: 0

The whole concept of the travel agent is absurd. They appear to be agents of the traveller but are actually agents of the airlines. Votes: 0

Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it. Votes: 0

Sadly, too much has changed about publishing ... not only does attractiveness matter to agents and editors, but there's no room anymore for a reclusive writer. Votes: 0

I find it weird when [model] agents say, 'You're the only black girl booked for the show. Isn't it great?' Why is it great? Votes: 0

Only in America does 'health' 'care' 'reform' begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy merits a fine. Votes: 0

The people of the FBI sacrifice much for their country, and I am proud to lead this organization of dedicated agents, analysts, and professional staff. Votes: 0

In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed. Votes: 0

We can no longer allow multi-nationalists to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace. Votes: 0

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it. Votes: 0

The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences. Votes: 0

These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up. Votes: 0

If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents. Votes: 0

We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace. Votes: 0

Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken. Votes: 0

I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains. Votes: 0

Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well disposed are daily made agents of injustice. Votes: 0

The prime minister of Ireland will be celebrating St. Patrick's Day at the White House. So finally the Secret Service agents will have a drinking buddy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In leaving New York in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of agents and would-be's and with-it nonparticipants; this world seemed unnutritious and interfering. Votes: 0

All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death. Votes: 0

I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting. Votes: 0

To become a Secret Service agent, applicants must pass a polygraph exam. But after being hired, agents are never required to undergo regular lie detector testing again. Votes: 0

And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things. Votes: 0

The agents of etatism have certainly not been lacking in zeal and energy. But, for all this, economic affairs cannot be kept going by magistrates and policemen. Votes: 0

At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents. Votes: 0

While there are a great many agents in nature which boost libido and enhance sexual function, chocolate alone actually promotes the brain chemistry of being in love. Votes: 0

It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy. Votes: 0

On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted. Votes: 0

And that's how I wrote to NICAP, but then later, just very soon after that, like three weeks later, we started getting phone calls from government agents. Votes: 0

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers. Votes: 0

Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration. Votes: 0

I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas. Votes: 0

The truth is that things were already going so poorly for me that nothing surprised me anymore. But then the BKA sent 20 agents to search my house. Votes: 0

Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers. Votes: 0

Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents. Votes: 0

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress. Votes: 0

Without awareness, the current of life cedes its sense of control to other deceptive agents that take you into a life that is toxic rather than nourishing. Votes: 0

Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary. Votes: 0

The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming fear to become agents of their own transformation and liberation. Votes: 0

About five, six FBI agents walked into the courthouse and arrested me. They said I was being arrested for distribution of information related to explosives over the Internet. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was just endorsed by ICE. They've never endorsed anybody before on immigration. I was just endorsed by ICE. I was just recently endorsed - 16,500 Border Patrol agents. Votes: 0

The frustration of being marginalized often gets misdirected at the most visible members of one's own community, because they are more accessible than the real agents of marginalization. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I did 'Spanglish' and went back home, and the next thing I did was my high school play. My agents at the time were like, 'Uh. What?' Votes: 0

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press. Votes: 0

If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals. Votes: 0

Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear. Votes: 0

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America. Votes: 0

My address book of dealers and private collectors, smugglers and fixers, agents, runners and the peculiar assortment of art hangers-on was longer than anyone else's in the field. Votes: 0

The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for. Votes: 0

Chelsea's players, coaches and agents are now football's wealthiest millionaires. Surely the billions taken from the Russian people by an oligarch in questionable privatisations couldn't be better spent? Votes: 0

I had told my agents that I never wanted to do an hour-long TV show. I said, "I'm not that stupid." Because it's the worst lifestyle in Hollywood. Votes: 0

[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting pen to paper in his own books. Votes: 0

I don't think anybody else from my generation had federal agents standing at their door with a badge and a gun, saying: 'You are going to answer my questions'. Votes: 0

And thus Charles found himself wandering around a hotel, trailing federal agents as he held a cardboard coffee cup holder in each hand, instead of out killing misbehaving werewolves. Votes: 0

Two special agents at the front door pulled me outside. By that time, they had already had the house surrounded with loaded weapons, machine guns, shotguns... about 25 federal agents. Votes: 0

The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must expect from evolution's countless tricks. Votes: 0

Secondly, not only have we put additional agents on counterterrorism, but we've also built up our analytical structure so that we're better positioned to analyze the information we have. Votes: 0

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person. Votes: 0

Faithful parents can invite the power of heaven to influence their children. Nevertheless, those children remain agents unto themselves, and the choice to repent or not ultimately is theirs. Votes: 0

I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options. Votes: 0

President Bush delivered his first State of the Union address, riding high on an 82-percent approval rating, and with Attorney General John Ashcroft dispatching agents to interview the other 18 percent. Votes: 0

For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published. Votes: 0

It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation. Votes: 0

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force. Votes: 0

I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents. Votes: 0

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.' Votes: 0

Government employees are public servants and prohibited by the Constitution from inhibiting religious freedom, that is a far cry from sneaking around and into a church and acting like KGB agents. Votes: 0

It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions, and consequently regarded all the little people as irrelevant scum. Now, understandably, it's nearly everybody. Votes: 0

I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen. Votes: 0

One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological agents. Votes: 0

While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed. Votes: 0

Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones. Votes: 0

A lot of times if you want to get another agent, agents actually make you do monologues in their offices. They still do that! You've got to come up with something! Votes: 0

Right after the show tonight, I'm going to the New York City car show. You get to see the models that will be crashed next year by drunken Secret Service agents. Votes: 0

What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them? Votes: 0

I have a great management team and great agents that assist me, and I take roles in feature films that I hope will show my other talents other than just comedy. Votes: 0

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men. Votes: 0

I didn't go out for a soap until I moved to New York. I wasn't even considering soaps, but my agents talked me into it and said it's nice, steady work. Votes: 0

I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace -- all we need is a fighting chance. Votes: 0

In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop. Votes: 0

When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.' Votes: 0

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other. Votes: 0

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw. Votes: 0

We need to educate students to be critical agents, to learn how to take risks, engage in thoughtful dialogue, and taking on the crucial issue what it means to be socially responsible. Votes: 0

It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the richness and scope of the human experience. Votes: 0

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents. Votes: 0

Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish. Votes: 0

And for any agents or proxy of the regime interested in asking me questions face to face, I've got some bullets slathered in pork fat to make you feel extra special welcome. Votes: 0

Our agricultural colleges continue to graduate specialists who become vocational agricultural teachers in the schools, and county agents, who go forth to extol the virtues of poison insecticides, herbicides, and commercial fertilizers. Votes: 0

This week the Obama administration warned China to remove its secret agents from the U.S. Then in the middle of Obama's announcement a plant behind him got up and walked away. Votes: 0

Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin. Votes: 0

The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus. Votes: 0

President Obama broke a world record after he reached a million followers on Twitter in just five hours. The only guys not following Obama? His Secret Service agents. They lost track months ago. Votes: 0

Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function. Votes: 0

I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers. Votes: 0

I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future. Votes: 0

If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesnt get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational. Votes: 0

The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents. Votes: 0

In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice. Votes: 0

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative. Votes: 0

All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny. Votes: 0

I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call. Votes: 0

We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us. Votes: 0

Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction. Votes: 0

I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place. Votes: 0

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change. Votes: 0

It's only when journalists understand the role they play in this propaganda, it's only when they realize they can't be both independent, honest journalists and agents of power, that things will begin to change. Votes: 0

It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible. Votes: 0

Justin Bieber's tour bus was stopped by Canadian border patrol agents. And they found marijuana. The agents said Bieber was a disgrace to Canada and should never come back. Then they found the marijuana. Votes: 0

I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty. Votes: 0

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us. Votes: 0

While I sign off on trades or free agents, I've rarely overruled my basketball people's decisions. But I'm not shy about steering the discussion or pushing deeper if something doesn't make sense to me. Votes: 0

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society. Votes: 0

To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn your craft, get to know fellow writers, and meet editors and agents. Votes: 0

You don't have to do something exotic to enjoy the benefits of natural healing agents. So many things in your kitchen - common spices, common herbs and foods - have powerful healing agents as well. Votes: 0

Now younger actresses will have a confidence in those discussions with their agents and be able to say, "Can we make sure that I'm being paid the right amount for the work that I'm doing?" Votes: 0

A pinwheel also needs wind. And with our actions, and our intentions, we can be that wind. We have to be those agents of change for the young people and their families in our communities. Votes: 0

On a regular basis, to appease White House or campaign staffs, Secret Service officials order agents to ignore basic security rules and let people into events without being put through a magnetometer or metal detector. Votes: 0

The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship. Votes: 0

For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

As nearly two dozen Secret Service agents and members of the military were punished or fired following a 2012 prostitution scandal in Colombia, Obama administration officials repeatedly denied that anyone from the White House was involved. Votes: 0

Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution. Votes: 0