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Quotes About Agents

Zuckerman, sucker though he was for seriousness, was still not going to be drawn into a discussion about agents and editors. If ever there was a reason for an American writer to seek asylum in Red China, it would be to put ten thousand miles between himself and those discussions.
~ Philip Roth
There's got to be at least some contact if they aren't going to lose their assets simply because someone dies before she gets around to telling her son or daughter Oh, by the way. We're actually secret agents for the Mesan Alignment. Here's your secret decoder kit. Be ready to be contacted by the Galactic Evil Overlord on Frequency X with orders to betray the society you've been raised all your life to think of as your own.
~ David Weber
My agents love pranking me.
~ Winston Duke
I feel like my agents are really amazing and smart.
~ Stephanie Beatriz
I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'
~ Pierce Brosnan
I have the best agents in the world.
~ Guy Fieri
I think my agents take care of my future.
~ Xherdan Shaqiri
Sometimes it is difficult to understand why some players have certain agents.
~ Roberto Mancini
I'm blessed and fortunate I met many people, like agents, who'd take a meeting with me because my mum or dad would ask if they'd see me.
~ Freddie Fox
It's hard to get someone, particularly agents, to tell you the truth.
~ Ken Berry
I know straight away if there are roles I don't want to do, and I have a lot of arguments with my agents about those.
~ Aneurin Barnard
Gentlemen — " said the mayor, anxious to give some proof of devotion to the First Consul and addressing the two agents. "Say 'citizens'; the Republic still exists," interrupted Corentin, looking at the priest with a quizzical air.
~ Honore de Balzac
The way I look at the world is establishment versus change agents. The establishment is those people who want to keep things the way they are. Change agents are people like me.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
I'd heard that if you saw a Reaper, you saw what you expected to see, what you thought the agents of Death would look like. Personally, I wanted to see little, fuzzy pink bunnies, but apparently my subconscious visualized tall, scary, and skeletal. My subconscious and I needed to have a long talk.
~ Unknown
Women were more than placeholders for the men. Women were active war agents. Through their brainwork, the women had an impact on the fighting that went on. This is an important truth, and it is one that often has been overlooked.
~ Liza Mundy
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.
~ Timothy Murphy
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.
~ Philip Yancey
God had "hallowed" creation by separating the sacred from the profane, the clean from the unclean. Jesus did not cancel out the hallowing principle, rather he changed its source. We ourselves can be agents of God's holiness, for God now dwells within us. In the midst of an unclean world we can stride, as Jesus did, seeking ways to be a source of holiness.
~ Philip Yancey
Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
~ Philip Yancey
The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.
~ Philip Yancey
Unlike the scary movies and sermons from my youth, not one of them focuses on personal salvation as a way of escaping hell in the afterlife. Rather, they present how the good news about eternity should transform this life. The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.
~ Philip Yancey
Ino the course of developing agents of chemical warfare, some of the chemicals created in the laboratory were found to be lethal to insects, The discovery did not come by chance: insects were widely used to test chemicals as agents of death for man.
~ Rachel Carson
In the folklore of the British Isles, a bodach is a vile beast that slithers down chimneys at night and carries off children who misbehave. Rather like Inland Revenue agents.
~ Dean Koontz
Agents don't sell books, good writing does. Plotting and characterization are what interest an editor. Agents negotiate contracts, but they don't sell books.
~ Debbie Macomber