Secret Service Agents

Famous quotes containing the words secret, service and/or agents:

    “it is best then that the buried word remain buried for we were intended to appreciate only its fruits and not the secret principle activating them to know this would be to know too much. Meanwhile it is possible to know just enough, and this is all we were supposed to know, toward which we have been straining all our lives.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?”
    —Public Service Announcement.

    “Modern man’s capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity’s capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.”
    —George F. Will (b. 1941)