#restricted

The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusual or too specialized to be tackled by the regular force. There were thirty departments in all, starting at the more mundane Neighborly Disputes (SO-30) and going onto Literary Detectives (SO-27) and Art Crime (SO-24). Anything below SO-20 was restricted information, although it was common knowledge that the ChronoGuard was SO-12 and Antiterrorism SO-9. It is rumored that SO-1 was the department that polices the SpecOps themselves. Quite what the others do is anyone's guess. What is known is that the individual operatives themselves are mostly ex-military or ex-police and slightly unbalanced. 'If you want to be a SpecOp,' the saying goes, 'act kinda weird... ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#art #crime #detectives #literary #military

I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations! ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#bit #corsets #covered #face #get

For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially. ↗

— John Hutton

#been #both #career #career opportunities #clinical

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable. ↗

— Walter Lang

#experimental #generally #predicted #restricted #science

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#i #life #lonely #many #must

I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted, here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can't go up the Canyon and enjoy the view. ↗

— Franka Potente

#actually #anybody #behind #canyon #enjoy

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. ↗

— George Steiner

#language #larger #meaningfully #much #only

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#actually #although #am #bit #feels

I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#because #dvds #father #films #i

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted. ↗

— Ahmed Best

#art #film #like #music #restricted