Quotes by Agents 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. Laura Miller agents editors writing You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent. Leigh Steinberg agents sports looks 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. Leon Panetta agents force police I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they provided explanations of our existence that completely rejected supernatural agents... Darwin and Wallace set a standard not only for the life sciences but for cosmology as well. Leonard Susskind agents venture atheism Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power. Lewis H. Lapham agents childhood country These words "accessible" and "emotionally available" get thrown at us from agents and editors and publishers - or the reverse - if it's not all goo-ey and sentimental we're told it's "cold" or "uncaring" or "emotionally vacant." In other words, responses to women's writing in particular continue to be "gendered." Lidia Yuknavitch agents editors writing My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself. Lillie Langtry salary agents drawing Janie: So you're a double agent? Cabel: Sure.That sounds sexy. Lisa McMann agents sexy sound Finally, I found a wonderful agent who wanted to work with me, and she sent it to one billion publishers and received one billion rejections, until I was fortunate enough to be matched up with the Permanent Press. Liza Campbell agents rejection wonderful When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections. Liza Campbell agents rejection book It's all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients. Lorrie Fair agents matter want 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. Loretta Young agents money real 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. Lorna Luft agents independent mother A player has no use for an agent. None. Lou Holtz agents player use All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them. Lou Holtz agents damage player To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. Sédillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body. Louis Pasteur agents science knowledge This MacGyver is a twentysomething agent who, rather than operating on his own, is part of a team engaged in high-risk missions that take them around the world. Other cast members include George Eads as Jack Dalton, Tristin Mays as Riley Davis, Justin Hires [late of the TV version of Rush Hour] as Wilt Bozer and Sandrine Holt as Patricia Thornton. Lucas Till agents risk team In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change. Lyndon B. Johnson agents world firsts No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person. Lysander Spooner agents body men Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat. Mac Barnett agents experts hands «1011121314151617181920»
