Spy Quotes - Page 12

• 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, Slave Labor, Chinese

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.

  Noel Gallagher

  Couple, War, Book

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• I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

  Tony Gilroy

  Lying, Ideas, Two

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• 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, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Spy plots are hard, really hard.

  Rashida Jones

  Plot, Hard

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• 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

  Stories, Saws, Interest

  "A Statement: Communism, Free-Speech, and 'Naming Names'" by Elia Kazan, www.capitalismmagazine.com. April 19, 1999.

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• The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women.

  Helen Mirren

  Needs, Roles, World

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• 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, Osama Bin Laden, Happened

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• I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

  Edward Snowden

  Adults, Spotlight

  "Snowden made cautious approach to Post reporter, said he knew the risk he's taking". www.foxnews.com. June 9, 2013.

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• From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

  John Updike

  Infancy Is, Secret, Literature

  "Bech: A Book". Book by John Updike, 1965.

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• The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Home, Government, Doors

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• 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

  Common Humanity, Kitchen, One Day

  William Boyd (2009). “Restless”, p.278, A&C Black

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• 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, Half, Might

  Eric Ambler (2009). “The mask of Dimitrios”, Penguin Classics

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• This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smile is the smile of humour or that of commercial complicity. This is also the case with pop, and its smile ultimately encapsulates all its ambiguity: it is not the smile of critical distance, but the smile of collusion

  Jean Baudrillard

  Distance, Use, Advertising

  Jean Baudrillard (1998). “The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures”, p.121, SAGE

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• 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, Trying, Locks

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• While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205.

  Joseph McCarthy

  War, Party, Men

  "'Communists in Government Service,' McCarthy Says". Joseph McCarthy's Lincoln's birthday address to the Women's Republican Club of Wheeling in West Virginia, www.senate.gov. February 9, 1950.

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• To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.

  George Orwell

  Freedom, Gun, Hollywood Films

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• According to The Washington Post, the NSA has been monitoring phone calls and emails of people in Mexico. So apparently it's not enough to spy on American citizens, they feel they have to spy on FUTURE American citizens as well.

  Jay Leno

  Phones, Nsa, People

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

  Zebulon Pike

  Horse, Night, Desert

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees (1811). “Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.186

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• I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform to a slinky, sexy, ballgown in the amount of time it takes an elevator to climb three floors. Well, I don't know how it is for TV spies, but I can tell you that even with Velcro, the art of the quick change is one that must take a lot of practice (not to mention better lighting than one is likely to find in a tunnel that was once part of the underground railroad).

  Ally Carter

  Sexy, Art, Tunnels

  Ally Carter (2010). “Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You”, p.107, Hachette UK

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• Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the storm of warring words; She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No"; She sees the best that glimmers through the worst; She feels the sun is hid for the night; She spies the summer through the winter bud; She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls; She hears the lark within the songless egg; She finds the fountain where they wailed "Mirage!"

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Fall, Winter

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1376, Delphi Classics

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• Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I.

  Ogden Nash

  Dog, Time, Betrayal

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• I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.

  Julia Child

  Organization, Numbers, Office

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• No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by the moon.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Butterfly, Blessing

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. 8

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• Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Desire, Way, Range

  Thomas Hobbes (1651). “Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill”, p.35

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