Community Modern Espionage Quotes & Sayings

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is. — Martin Cruz Smith

In the Land of Gods and Monsters I was an angel looking to get fucked hard — Lana Del Rey

She had privacy, and the privilege of walking up and down the same battlements as the sentries. — John Peter Nettl

It's dark, close, cold, and intensely creepy down there. The fact that it was inhabited by things that had no love for mankind and potential radioactivity to boot didn't do much to boost its tourism industry. — Jim Butcher

I looked. George Shearing. And as always he leaned his blind head on his pale hand, all ears opened like the ears of an elephant, listening to the American sounds and mastering them for his own English summer's-night use. Then they urged him to get up and play. He did. He played innumerable choruses with amazing chords that mounted higher and higher till the sweat splashed all over the piano and everybody listened in awe and fright. They led him off the stand after an hour. He went back to his dark corner, old God Shearing, and the boys said, 'There ain't nothin left after that. — Jack Kerouac

We envy people like you, and we want to be you; we can't, so we destroy you. — Azar Nafisi

This is not an easy problem. For every useful whistle-blower there are probably many unbalanced idiots, or malicious troublemakers. — Chester Porter

You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it. — Brian Wilson

Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery. — Thomas Aquinas

Everybody wants to touch you all the time. I'm the only one who can't when I want to be the only one that can. — Mary Calmes

There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning. — Wayne Rooney

The view of Earth is spectacular. — Sally Ride

The most important lesson that came out of Vietnam for me was that Marines take care of Marines. — Tom Clancy

Yes, black is slimming, but it's not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flattering on all women. — Twiggy

There are many kinds of adult adversities that can provoke severe psychological distress, including debt and unemployment, dysfunctional marital relationships and occupational stress. The reality is that the social causes of mental ill-health are all around us. — Richard Bentall