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Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket. -- Uwe Boll
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. -- Andrew Jackson
States are not moral agents. -- Noam Chomsky
I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack. -- Mark Rydell
My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts. -- Gerard Butler
Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing. -- Jasper Fforde
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. -- Grover Cleveland
Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts. -- Jackie Collins
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people. -- Daniel Webster
Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping. -- Shia LaBeouf
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. -- Noam Chomsky
Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc. -- Alexander Theroux
Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations. -- Imelda Staunton
The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents -- John Culberson
Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine. -- Bernard Cornwell
You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents. -- Earl Weaver
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. -- Stephen Leacock
A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better. -- Fred Allen
We loved Andy, so we wanted to keep him. He was in both bands, but Nerve Agents broke up. -- Brody Armstrong
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made. -- Grover Cleveland
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first. -- Mira Sorvino
The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on. -- Emil Zatopek
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. -- Benjamin Disraeli
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. -- Dave Winfield
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. -- Mackenzie Astin
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. -- Graham Taylor
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. -- Ric Keller
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. -- Leigh Steinberg
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. -- John Ashcroft
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. -- Augusten Burroughs
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. -- Robert Mueller
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
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. -- Bob Schaffer
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. -- Sylvia Kristel
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. -- Howie Carr
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. -- John le Carre
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. -- Simon Jordan
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. -- Clark Gregg
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. -- John Romaniello
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. -- Ronald Kessler
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. -- Sara Paretsky
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. -- Imelda Staunton
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. -- Imelda Staunton
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. -- Peter Stone
Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers. -- Orson Welles
The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it. -- Morgan Freeman
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. -- Alan Rickman
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. -- Joyce Meyer
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. -- Robert Mueller
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. -- Barton Gellman
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. -- Hillary Clinton
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
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. -- Andrew Jackson
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. -- Sun Tzu
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. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Germaine Greer
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. -- Robert Mueller
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. -- Sun Tzu
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. -- Helena Bonham Carter
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. -- Ann Voskamp
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. -- Robert Mueller
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. -- Max Weber
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. -- John Marshall
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. -- Henry B. Eyring
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. -- Michio Kaku
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. -- Steven Seagal
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. -- Connie Nielsen
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. -- Troian Bellisario
There are no healing agents. -- Herbert M. Shelton
Satan works through human agents. -- Ezra Taft Benson
All women are natural born espionage agents. -- Eddie Cantor
It's going to require numerous IRA agents. -- George W. Bush
Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates. -- Ovid
Coaches are sales people and change agents. -- Hugh McCutcheon
Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty. -- John Agar
Some of my best friends are FBI agents. -- Jeff Sessions
Our side has agents. Their side has spies. -- Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people. -- Jack Welch
Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents. -- Jean Kerr
People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents. -- Chris Brogan
To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper. -- Chris Brogan
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people -- Daniel Webster
You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents. -- Rumer Godden
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. -- Thomas Jefferson
Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then. -- Robin Williams
My agents are busy with the final details of the contract. -- Guus Hiddink
We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions. -- Jerome Bruner
It's all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients. -- Lorrie Fair
The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes. -- Herodotus
Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore -- Tom Berenger
Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can. -- Walter Jon Williams
Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books. -- Meg Rosoff
Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm happy that I have agents and managers that believe in me. -- Tricia Helfer
I don't have close relationships with agents. They're friends, but they're not confidants. -- Rod Serling
I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents. -- Irving Paul Lazar
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk. -- Charles Duhigg
I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents. -- Kathie Lee Gifford
I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way." -- David Morse
Most agents hate prologues. Just make the first chapter relevant and well written. -- Andrea Brown
My parents walked in on me Googling 'agents for kids' when I was 9. -- Graham Phillips
If people could deal with each other honestly, they would not need agents. -- Raymond Chandler
Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents. -- Sun Tzu
I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff. -- Tom Wopat
The devilâ??s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not? -- Arthur Conan Doyle
American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature. -- Zebulon Pike
We live in a society where interacting with government agents is apotentially hazardous activity -- Steven Magee
Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents, -- Pope Francis
Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society. -- Jacques Ellul
Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love -- Bruce D. Perry
A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit. -- Cecil B. DeMille
Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer. -- Ethel Waters
Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them. -- Stephen Fry
I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union. -- Aldrich Ames
The only people helped by the death tax are lawyers, accountants, and IRS agents. -- Bob Schaffer
I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty. -- Morgan Brittany
The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents. -- John Culberson
Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity. -- Samuel Wilson

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