Espionage Fiction Quotes & Sayings

Grandpa said that we could solve a lot of the world's problems if we considered cats and dogs edible. Like the neighbor's dog who goes to the bathroom in his flower garden. And know what else? — Cole Alpaugh

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head. — J.K. Rowling

Eragon blinked. Is it me, or is everyone on the edge today? Like Arya-one moment she's angry, the next she's giving me a blessing!
No one will be comfortable until things return to normal.
Define normal. — Christopher Paolini

To be a Jew is a destiny. — Vicki Baum

Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them. — Tom Greer

Next time
we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren! — Leonard Leventon

Gentlemen. You are looking at the true Abraham Lincoln of Arabia. And in order to end our internal bickering - our civil war, if you will - I have solicited your aid. — Leonard Leventon

On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers. — Kevin Drum

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you. — Robert Plant

Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired. — James Morcan

I like those kinds of songs that have details that you remember and that have stories that mean something and that open up into different levels philosophically. I like those kinds of movies, and I like those kinds of books. — Jason Isbell

I've got to think of a hundred and sixty million Americans, not of the three or four that happen to be the ones I love. And it wouldn't be a big thing - security is built on lots of little thing. I don't like to talk about it. (Calhoun Hightower in Danger for Breakfast) — John McPartland

For the younger sisters, we always look up to the older sisters because they're always ahead of us and they always win. — Serena Williams

Havens turned again.
Someone else passed between the trucks.
That someone walked with less purpose than the other workers near the stalls. To Havens this meant a surveillance asset was on him and it probably was not an assassination attempt. It eased him back into relative comfort for just a moment or two more. — J.T. Patten

Steve was the best delegator I ever met," Johnson said at Stanford. "He was so clear about what he wanted that it gave you great freedom. — Brent Schlender

And in a land accustomed to so much anguish, Chase tried to be careful with words. His soccer moms began assigning
nicknames during the first day of official practice: Difom, Kakas, Kochma, and Maldyok, which roughly translated to Deformed, Carcass, Nightmare, and Bad Eye.
He made a new rule regarding nicknames. — Cole Alpaugh

Noriega wound up like a baseball pitcher on top of the bed and hurled the small gun, but was low and outside for a ball. His tight-fitting house dress was bunched up high on his chubby thighs, exposing olive drab underwear.
I see London, I see France, I see a crazy dictator's underpants!
Chase's thoughts raced. — Cole Alpaugh

Limp finally spoke. Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it? — Cole Alpaugh

One study found that people who just thought about watching their favorite movie actually raised their endorphin levels by 27 percent. — Daniel Kahneman

It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can't. — Carol K. Carr

There is a little bit of everybody in everybody. — Leonard Leventon

Plastic flowers last for hours — Bill Fairclough

New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean — Chris Carter

Engaging irrational people with rational arguments is irrational. — Grant McLachlan

For a moment he came near to sharing their incredible belief - it would do no harm to mutter a prayer of thanks to the God of his childhood, the God of the Common and the castle, that no ill had yet come to Sarah's child. Then a sonic boom scattered the words of the hymn and shook the old glass of the west window and rattled the crusader's helmet which hung on a pillar, and he was reminded again of the grown-up world. He went quickly out and bought the Sunday papers. The Sunday Express had a headline on the front page - Child's Body Found in Wood. — Graham Greene

I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me. — Bette Midler

When you little, you only get asked two questions, what's your name and how old you is, so you better get em right. — Kathryn Stockett

Smiley himself was one of those solitaires who seem to have come into the world fully educated at the age of eighteen. Obscurity was his nature, as well as his profession. The byways of espionage are not populated by the brash and colourful adventurers of fiction. A man who, like Smiley, has lived and worked for years among his country's enemies learns only one prayer: that he may never, never be noticed. Assimilation is his highest aim, he learns to love the crowds who pass him in the street without a glance; he clings to them for his anonimity and his safety. His fear makes him servile - he could embrace the shoppers who jostle him in their impatience, and force him from the pavement. He could adore the officials, the police, the bus conductors, for the terse indifference of their attitudes. (ch. 9) — John Le Carre