Tom Clancy famous quotes

04-17-2025

The good old days are now.
-- Tom Clancy
Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
-- Tom Clancy

#Inspirational #Motivation #Eye
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
-- Tom Clancy

#Government #People #Liberty
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
-- Tom Clancy

#Change #Hope #Men
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
-- Tom Clancy

#Government #People #Political
Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that.
-- Tom Clancy

#Ideas #Brilliant Ideas #Come Up
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
-- Tom Clancy

#Dream #Real #Responsibility
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy

#Life #Witty #Truth
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
-- Tom Clancy

#Writing #Simple #Trying
Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun.
-- Tom Clancy

#Home #Gun #Law
People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?
-- Tom Clancy

#Communication #Memorable #Technology
Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
-- Tom Clancy

#Book #Collaboration #Ultimate
I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.
-- Tom Clancy

#Real #Memorable #Stuff
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
-- Tom Clancy

#Book #Memorable #Names
I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
-- Tom Clancy

#Baby #Liars #Mean
I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?
-- Tom Clancy

#One Line #One Liner #Enough
Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
-- Tom Clancy

#Memorable #Thinking #Storyteller
Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.
-- Tom Clancy

#Life Is
No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.
-- Tom Clancy

#Memorable #Matter #Doe
The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.
-- Tom Clancy

#World
Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?
-- Tom Clancy

#Memorable #Guy #Computer
Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.
-- Tom Clancy

#Book #Writing #Sailing
When I go to peoples' houses I like to sneak into their bedrooms and try on their underwear.
-- Tom Clancy

#God #Stupidity #House
Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.
-- Tom Clancy

#Jobs #Men #Rights
The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read
-- Tom Clancy

#Reading #Library #Way
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
-- Tom Clancy

#Memorable #Men #Risk
You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isnâ€™t divinely inspired â€“ itâ€™s hard work.
-- Tom Clancy

#Writing #Hard Work #Kissing
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.
-- Tom Clancy

#Country #Jobs #Military

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