Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Agee

What the Agency [CIA] does is ordered by the President and the NSC [National Security Council]. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument of the President.

Quentin Crisp

God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.

Pico Iyer

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.

Jim Ryun

Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel.

Jim Ramstad

I strongly agree that a National Intelligence Director should be established to oversee and coordinate the 15 federal intelligence agencies.

George Lopez

Sarah Palin is Latina. Pay-leen. She has an infant and a grandkid the same age. Latina!

Elliot Perlman

When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment.

Elliott Erwitt

Photoshop is useful in many ways but must NEVER be used for the altering of photographs. My assistants and my agency do whatever Photoshop work for me that may be required as it is too complicated for my brain.

Elliott Abrams

The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid.

Elizabeth George

I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.

Elizabeth Gaskell

But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by a bright sunny day, or some happy outward circumstance. And when the brilliant fourteen fine days of October came on, her cares were all blown away as lightly as thistledown, and she thought of nothing but the glories of the forest.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.

Elaine Stritch

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

Elaine Stritch

Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'

John Culberson

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

John Bunyan

Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.

Joan Armatrading

Whichever age you are, that's the best age. I'm a very "now" person.

Joan Chen

Since age 14, I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there.

Joan Collins

After a certain age you get the face you deserve.

Lisa Kleypas

I still don’t get why I have to eat breakfast if you don’t,” Josie muttered. “Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life.

Lisa Gardner

I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me.

Lionel Hampton

I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

Lionel Barrymore

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

Linda Ellerbee

if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.

Larry McMurtry

You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae

Josephine Hart

Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.

Karl Rove

Karl Rove told me about Valerie Plame's identity on July 11, 2003. I called him because Ambassador Wilson was in the news that week. I didn't know Ambassador Wilson even had a wife until I talked to Karl Rove, and he said that she worked at the Agency and worked on WMD.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

Peace Pilgrim

I had created sufficient age when I started out January 1, 1953, and I said, that's enough. From that time on I thought of myself as being ageless and in radiant health, and I am. I haven't gotten younger, but I see no point in getting younger. I can get along just fine as I am, and if you have learned the lessons of the seasons of life before, you really have no wish to return to a prior season of life.

Peter Thiel

A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.

Peter Kreeft

In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

Peter F. Hamilton

This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.' 'Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean, and the world works so well, is it? Because everybody knows everything and there's no hiding place.