Agents Quotes

All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.

I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.

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.

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

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

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

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.

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

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

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

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.

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

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

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.

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

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.

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

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.

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

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.

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

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

I remember saying, very almost jokingly, I'm going to take over the world through television, that's my plan. And I said it to my agent, and I said it to my friends, and I said it to myself.

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

He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.

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

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

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.

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

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.

I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.

Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.

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.

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.

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

I'm probably the only member of the 'Bachelor' cast without an agent!

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

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

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.

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

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

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

After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.

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

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

I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.