Spy famous quotes

I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with ... G." "Sausages.
-- Adam Rex

#Eye #Spy #Sausage

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
-- Agnes Smedley

#Russia #Spy #Safe

I invented the historical spy novel.
-- Alan Furst

#Historical #Spy #Novel

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.
-- Aldrich Ames

#Effort #Spy #Pertinent

All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
-- Alexander Pope

#Eye #Yellow #Spy

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.
-- Alexis De Veaux

#Spy #Pages #Outsiders

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
-- Alison Bechdel

#Spy

Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.
-- Ally Carter

#Skills #Waiting #Spy

So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.
-- Ally Carter

#Feet #Spy #Goes On

What is a Gallagher Girl? She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy... a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.
-- Ally Carter

#Girl #Spy #Genius

That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.
-- Ally Carter

#Secret #Spy

Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.
-- Ally Carter

#Girl #School #Spy

I didn’t know what was more disturbing—the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the world’s premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door.
-- Ally Carter

#School #Doors #Spy

All we can do is politely ask aliens from suspect nations to leave ... while we sort the peace-loving immigrants from the murderous fanatics.... Muslim immigrants who agree to spy on the millions of Muslim citizens unaffected by the deportation order can stay.
-- Ann Coulter

#Order #Scary #Spy

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.
-- Anthony Horowitz

#Writing #Magic #Spy

In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren't employed. They were used.
-- Anthony Horowitz

#Country #Choices #Spy

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
-- Barry Eisler

#Thinking #Office #Spy

Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is much more. Computer security helps ensure that your computers, networks, and peripherals work as expected all the time, and that your data is safe in the event of hard disk crash or a power failure resulting from an electrical storm. Computer security also makes sure no damage is done to your data and that no one is able to read it unless you want them to.
-- Bruce Schneier

#Night #Data #Spy

The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
-- Buffalo Bill

#Two #Spy #Three

Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world.
-- C.J. Sansom

#Giving #Spy #Stories

I have no plans to write an autobiography, I will leave that to others. I'm sure they will turn me into a homosexual or a Nazi spy or something else.
-- Cary Grant

#Writing #Spy #Nazi

Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.
-- Charles Bass

#Design #Chinese #Spy

If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie.
-- Chris Diamantopoulos

#Spy #Genies #James Bond Movie

However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.
-- Christine Keeler

#Spy #Dresses #Proud

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.
-- Christine Keeler

#Talking #Spy #Digging

Rules and Things Number 63: Never, Ever Say Something Bad About Someone You Don't Know--Especially When You're Around a Bunch of Strangers. You Never Can Tell Who Might Be Kin to That Person or Who Might Be a Lip-Flapping, Big-Mouth Spy.
-- Christopher Paul Curtis

#Numbers #Spy #Mouths

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.
-- Cliff Stearns

#Technology #Balance #Spy

The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.
-- Cliff Stearns

#Spy #Hijacking #Logging

I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
-- Dana Delany

#Thinking #People #Spy

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
-- Daniel Craig

#Spy #Would Be #Want

He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed .
-- Diogenes

#Kings #Greed #Spy

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.
-- E. M. Forster

#Men #Hands #Spy

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.
-- Elia Kazan

#Spy #Stories #Saws

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.
-- Elizabeth Hurley

#Funny #Dumb #Spy

A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?
-- Eric Ambler

#Promise #Spy #Might

He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.
-- Frederick Forsyth

#Istanbul #Drawing #Spy

Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

#Russia #Differences #Spy

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
-- Gary Oldman

#Lying #Spy #Terrible

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
-- Gary Oldman

#Years #Spy #Osama Bin Laden

We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay.
-- Gena Showalter

#Spy #Logic #Okay

An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred.
-- George Washington

#Character #Spy #Needs

Women have always been spies
-- Harriet Rubin

#Women #Spy

The American Communist Party was notoriously infiltrated by informers, some working for the FBI, some for capitalist employers. At one time it used to be said that spies practically kept the Party going with their dues and contributions.
-- Helen Lawrenson

#Party #Spy #Communism

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.
-- Herta Muller

#Risk #Spy #Needs

A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life
-- Honore de Balzac

#Night #Mad #Spy

Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one really suspected a spy network.
-- Howard Blum

#Fire #Sea #Spy

Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.
-- Howard Tayler

#Spy #Three #Ugly

I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.
-- Jamie Bell

#Thinking #Spy #Thrillers

Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of such unflinching determination and unswerving devotion, the hurricane pauses and calms. Its ravings turn to mutters.
-- Janet Morris

#Determination #Spy #Faces

The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen.
-- Jean Genet

#Men #Spy #Lenses

I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.
-- Jeremy Northam

#Spy #Moscow #Realizing

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
-- John le Carre

#Spy #Population #Literature

For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.
-- John le Carre

#Spy #World #Couches

I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things.
-- John le Carre

#Cat #Compassion #Spy

Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.
-- John le Carre

#Spy #Matter #Habit

It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?
-- John le Carre

#Spy

Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.
-- Jonah Goldberg

#Guilt #Spy #President

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.
-- Karen Abbott

#Men #Two #Spy

The most temptation I'd experienced had been with Tomas, the Senate's spy who had been feeding off me without permission, and Mircea, who was probably plotting some nefarious scheme. I have no taste in men.
-- Karen Chance

#Men #Temptation #Spy

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like Spy Kids.
-- Katie Chang

#Kids #Perception #Spy

I am literally the worst person at keeping secrets. I'd be the worst spy of all time.
-- Keri Russell

#Keeping Secrets #Spy #Worst

I got nothing. Even the spies I'm spying on who are spying on other spies got nothing.
-- Kresley Cole

#Spy

In some roles I have to wear fur, and I always make sure it's fake, like in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Faux fur is great because it shows people that faux can look fabulous.
-- Kristen Johnston

#People #Fake #Spy

So you actually need spectacles,” Leo finally said. “Of course I do,” Marks said crossly. “Why would I wear spectacles if I didn’t need them?” “I thought they might be part of your disguise.” “My disguise?” “Yes, Marks, disguise. A noun describing a means of concealing someone’s identity. Often used by clowns and spies. And now apparently governesses. Good God, can anything be ordinary for my family?
-- Lisa Kleypas

#Mean #Identity #Spy

Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you...
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#Boredom #Spy #Life Is

When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.- Harriet the Spy
-- Louise Fitzhugh

#Thinking #People #Spy

Life is a struggle and a good spy goes in there and fights.
-- Louise Fitzhugh

#Struggle #Fighting #Spy

Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy.
-- Mary Howitt

#Deception #Spy #Littles

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.
-- Max Lerner

#Ambition #Vanity #Spy

The U.N. is an American-based bastion of foreign spies. Russia has more spies in the U.S. than there are members of the F.B.I.
-- Meldrim Thomson, Jr.

#Russia #Government #Spy

Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.
-- Michael Weston

#People #Library #Spy

As a rule, spies don't like dealing with cops. Covert ops are illegal by definition. If they were legal they wouldn't need to be covert.
-- Michael Weston

#Spy #Definitions #Needs

I once dated a guy who was like, 'Holy sh--, I just made out with Harriet the Spy!' And that's messed up. Don't say that. I was 10, you're 30, it's just weird.
-- Michelle Trachtenberg

#Guy #Spy #Holy

I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case.
-- Nathan Hale

#Spy #Should #Cases

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
-- Odette Annable

#Grandpa #Spy #Trying

She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'
-- Paul Simon

#Photography #Men #Spy

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.
-- Pia Zadora

#Spy #Information #Violence

The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.
-- Rachel Maddow

#Beautiful #Hug #Spy

Spy plots are hard, really hard.
-- Rashida Jones

#Spy #Plot

That's when it really came together for me that I was in a Bond film, to have my own spy car!
-- Rick Yune

#Car #Together #Spy

There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.
-- Shelagh Delaney

#Order #Secret #Spy

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
-- Stephen King

#Friendship #Spy #True Friendship

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.
-- Steve Forbes

#Eye #Chinese #Spy

The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the first instance, from the converted spy. Hence it is essential that the converted spy be treated with the utmost liberality.
-- Sun Tzu

#War #Enemy #Spy

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.
-- Tommy Douglas

#People #Spy #Way

I always liked spy stories.
-- Walter Wager

#Spy #Stories

I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this.
-- William Boyd

#Humanity #Kitchen #Spy

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
-- William Davenant

#Sorrow #Spy #Safe

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.
-- William Henry Ashley

#War #Party #Spy

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
-- William Shakespeare

#Sadness #Sorrow #Spy

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman

#Hate #Spy #Rumor

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
-- Zebulon Pike

#Horse #Night #Spy

When I was 12 years old, I was obsessed with codes, conspiracies, and secret messages. I would record TV commercials with SoundRecorder.exe on Windows 95 and reverse them to see if I was being subliminally influenced to watch Pokémon by Japanese spies.
-- Alex Hirsch

#Years #Secret #Spy

In a certain way, we felt almost like spies in the major label world. We were coming from some other world, and we somehow got our foot in the door and crept in and were prowling around, checking things out and taking back reports from the front.
-- Lee Ranaldo

#Spy #World

In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a globetrotting adventurer, he'd be compared to Indiana Jones. If you created a super spy, he'd be compared to James Bond.
-- Marc Guggenheim

#Character #Spy #Indiana

Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.
-- Matt Nix

#Spy #Desire #Doe

Werner Herzog, I knew him for so many years, when Fassbinder was at his highest moment. But we had a rule: An actor from Fassbinder could never work with an actor of Werner Herzog or Wim Wenders. Because if we would have done that, we would have been spies. "Ah, you worked with Werner - how was it? How did he direct you?" I was Fassbinder's actor.
-- Udo Kier

#Years #Spy #Actors

The CIA runs the drone program in Pakistan solely, not with the military. Then there's a joint CIA-military program in Yemen, then the CIA is involved in a lot of use of spy drones around the world and in the proliferation of bases.
-- Medea Benjamin

#Running #Military #Spy

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.
-- Benjamin Percy

#Fantasy Novels #Spy #Horror

A man with a camera was always suspected of being a spy. Moreover, the Jews did not want to be photographed, due to a misunderstanding of the prohibition against making graven images (photography had not been invented when the Torah was written!). I was forced to use a hidden camera.
-- Roman Vishniac

#Photography #Men #Spy