Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.

... the agent provocateur of a good dinner.

— Marie-Antoine Careme

And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents,…

— Doris Lessing

There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies, partly because…

— John Scalzi

While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act…

— Richard R. Nelson

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

— Joseph Sobran

My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't…

— Ashley Madekwe

In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by…

— Slavoj Žižek

Many American TV actors employ agents, managers, business managers, publicists and stylists, and are now adding digital media manager to the list. Their job…

— Gina Bellman

I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace…

— Hillary Clinton

Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the…

— Ashley Montagu

We are coming to a place where the road ends. From here on out, we will be making the road as we walk it,…

— Tom Atlee

Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've…

— Irvine Welsh

The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and…

— Grace Lee Boggs