#any

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#economic #efforts #espionage #had #intelligence

Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#many #not perfect #our #perfect #society

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#banner #dishes #feel #i #lousy

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#burning #comes #go #i #man

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#becomes #closely #looked #wonderful

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#besides #class #differs #discourse #everything

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely. ↗

— Tori Amos

#different personalities #feel #i #lonely #many

When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great. ↗

— Tori Amos

#artistic #cover #game #good #great

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done. ↗

— David Amram

#anything #appreciated #architect #carpenter #composer

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty. ↗

— David Amram

#became #culture #egalitarian #entire #entire lives