It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. John le Carre
We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world. Brad Thor
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. Walter Lippmann
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. Andrea Dworkin
The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie. Damon Albarn
The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind. Phaedrus
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility. John Podhoretz
Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. Jose Mourinho
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence. Miguel de Unamuno
All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens. Willa Cather
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. Arthur C. Clarke
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. Raymond Chandler
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain. Karl Von Clausewitz
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Stephen Leacock
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. Henry Adams
In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor. Paul Harris
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold. Joseph Chilton Pearce