'XIII' is a spy show. I think the comic book is a little too similar to 'The Bourne Identity.' I tried to… — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally.… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
I think suspense should be like any other color on a writers palette. I suppose Im in the minority but I think… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“After more than five years, some agents might be tempted to become complacent. Catherine would never become complacent. It was one of… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half,… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
“The NSA?" "Yeah, they called and offered to help out. Same software they use for enhancing spy satellite imagery." Venkat shrugged. "It's… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight,… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Pinto recalled in his memoirs after the war that Waelti, who was actually a Dutchman, "did not look like a very dangerous… — Robert Verkaik Copy Share Image
The Chinese, on the other hand, were in the position of having an American military spy plane on a Chinese military base… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the… — Frederick Forsyth Copy Share Image
The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The CIA has transformed from an organization created to recruit spies to steal secrets, into a paramilitary organization, a paramilitary force. It's… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
Now we just need to find someone who is close to the king but is really a spy for Mydogg." "That should… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In America, you have the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. You've got drones now being considered for domestic surveillance. You have… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
In 2014, impunity in journalism murder cases reached a staggering 96 percent and the remaining 4 percent obtained only partial justice, we… — Mariane Pearl Copy Share Image
That's what I love about the mockumentary style, is the added thing of people knowing they are on-camera, which changes your behavior.… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
According to The Washington Post, the NSA has been monitoring phone calls and emails of people in Mexico. So apparently it's not… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“Grandpa said that we could solve a lot of the world’s problems if we considered cats and dogs edible. Like the neighbor’s… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now I basically just read spy stories because they're about solving a puzzle within the constraints of history. It's the tick tock,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a… — Marc Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I… — Rose O'Neal Greenhow Copy Share Image
Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective?… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Andrée De Jongh story led me to other stories of women who joined the Resistance in France. I found literally dozens of… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Do you have spies in Clan Heavy?” “I have spies everywhere.” I looked at Andrea, who was hoarding bacon on her plate.… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Obviously, 'Homeland' is not just a spy thriller. It's more than that, but 'Tyrant' will be a bit more of a palace… — Adam Rayner Copy Share Image
The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
