#tori

The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#agency #away #backed #conducting #difficulties

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#common #crime #dictatorial #free #free world

Pa never told stories like Grandpa. Or treated the barn like family. Eli knew how Grandpa’s own pa had built the barn by hand, hauling bluestone for the foundation behind a stubborn ox with horns as wide as a tractor. How the smell of the plank walls was like family and how you never washed your chore coat so the animals would smell that you were family, too. ↗

— Sandra Neil Wallace

#author-sandra-neil-wallace #belonging #family #little-joe #nature

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#forget #forgetting #literature #literature-quotes #old-stories

I'm quite bullish. We're coming up on year 15 of a flat stock market. Historically that's a pretty good sign. So I'm not a hedge-fund manager but if I was I think I'd be feeling pretty good. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#coming #feeling #flat #good #good sign

I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#because #doing #german #i #instance

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#comes #distant #language #motion #motion pictures

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#fun #great #high #high school #most

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#being #big #big thing #historic #i

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. ↗