#agents

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. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#america #either #europe #europeans #few

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

— Imelda Staunton

#agents #box #get #imaginations #into

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

— Stephen Leacock

#always #argue #day #detest #die

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. ↗

— John White Geary

#around #authority #consideration #destructive #employed

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

— Anne Archer

#agents #business #even #go #instinct

remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents. ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #experience

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

— John Culberson

#border #border patrol #completely #enough #outnumbered

I don't like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my movies, secret agents are more realistic, I didn't want to portray them in the most glowing colours. ↗

— King Hu

#agents #being #bond #colours #glowing

The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors. ↗

— Jessica Alba

#after #agents #back #directors #down

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#bill #bought #bulbs #bureaucracy #buy