#agents

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

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#clubs #free #free agents #hearts #knave

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#american #authorized #councils #hold #nature

But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#adjust #agents #also #economic #economy

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side. ↗

— Parker Posey

#casting #comedy #deep #depression #flip

I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.' ↗

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

#audition #been #beginning #called #coolest

I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents. ↗

— Orville Redenbacher

#became #county #eight #established #i

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

#book #change #change the world #difference #film

If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#actor #agents #amount #becomes #deals

I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future. ↗

— Bernard Sanders

#cause #chemical #could #damage #environmental

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#agents #best #men #must #nature