Quotes of: Intelligence-agencies Keyword

Guy welcomed my breasts warmly. He hugged them like long-lost friends and stared at them with the protectiveness of a mother lion, as if to make sure they didn't decide to get up on their own and leave the two of us alone together in his office. He w...

The Agency

In the Solar System, Enceladus ought to be one of the highest priorities for the world's space agencies. Enceladus has a source of energy (tidal heating), organic material, and liquid water. That's a textbook-like list of those properties needed for ...

Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction

Melody Malone is the owner and sole employee of the Angel Detective Agency in Manhattan. She is possibly married but lives alone usually, and is older than both her parents. Sometimes. Why not visit her website? Ah – probably because the internet h...

The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That ...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Mma Ramotswe decided to go back into her office. There was a curious thing about male conversation that she had noticed - men often ended up poking fun at one another. Women did this only rarely, but men seemed to love insulting one another. It was v...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

The house seemed so different at night. Everything was in its correct place, of course, but somehow the furniture seemed more angular and the pictures on the wall more one-dimensional. She remembered somebody saying that at night we are all strangers...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. To account for anything by supernatural agencies is, in fact to say that we do not know. Theology is not what we know about Go...

Some Mistakes of Moses

All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us – by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our ...

Kalle Lasn

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victim...

Salman Rushdie

My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and giv...

Jensen Ackles

Marv Loach: What department is that again? Kent Mansley: Frankly, I'm not at liberty to divulge the particulars of the agency I work for, and all that that implies. Marv Loach: You mean, national security? Kent Mansley: Let me put it this way. Every ...

The Iron Giant

A significant number of people believe tribal people still live and dress as they did 300 years ago. During my tenure as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, national news agencies requesting interviews sometimes asked if they could film a tribal ...

Wilma Mankiller

Cosmic Ordering – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking your potential.

Cosmic Ordering Guide

The eye of your mind—your intelligence; the eye of your heart—your conscience; and the eye of your soul—your instinct.

Cephrael's Hand

Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

Christopher and His Kind

Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.

The Color of Magic

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

Bouvard and Pecuchet

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Richard Dawkins

I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.

Cate Blanchett

All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.

Ray Kurzweil

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

Rebecca West