Tennova Clarksville Quotes

#1. Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels ... that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up.

J. Edgar Hoover

#2. And if we only have a guardian who has this knowledge our State will be perfectly ordered? Of course, he replied; but I wish that you would tell me whether you conceive this supreme principle of the good to be knowledge or pleasure, or different from either? Aye,

Plato

#3. I don't make mistakes. I make predictions which immediately turn out to be wrong.

Tony Benn

#4. Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.

Nate Berkus

#5. Kate Daniels and her deadly attack poodle. Kill me, somebody. Julie, my adopted niece, would have a field day with this.

Ilona Andrews

#6. (Uncle) would remark that it was impossible to get by without such a (portentous and whimsical) tone when speaking of many things of this world, and especially of the things not entirely of this world.

Vladimir Odoevsky

#7. Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

Pierre Bonnard

#8. Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.

Tino Sehgal

#9. It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. Often, I think, thy don't believe in anything at all and they just want to prove to themselves that I don't really believe anything either. (The Vicar)

Helen Simonson

#11. Most wars start because someone makes a mistake, and most battles are lost by the losing side rather than won by the victors. I'm not sure if that makes things better or worse. I suppose it depends on which you disapprove of more, malice or stupidity.

K.J. Parker