Spy Quotes · Page 6

For me, there's something very romantic about going and looking at the stars and trying to photograph spy satellites.

— Trevor Paglen

Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one…

— Howard Blum

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

— Julia Child

A very, very impressive director, Tomas Alfredson. It's only his second film [ 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'], but he's a real find.

— John Hurt

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

— Katie Chang

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

— Matthew Rhys

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

— Gena Showalter

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

— Helen Mirren

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in…

— John le Carre

John Kerry has promised to take this country back from the wealthy. Who better than the guy worth $700 million to take…

— Jay Leno

“What's your name, son?' Sam said. The man looked to be about Sam's age, but Sam always thought calling people 'son' immediately…

— Tod Goldberg

Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but…

— Barton Gellman

The American Communist Party was notoriously infiltrated by informers, some working for the FBI, some for capitalist employers. At one time it…

— Helen Lawrenson

The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers…

— Peter Kreeft

I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He…

— Sarah Parcak

“Perhaps the wolf wasn't quite so dangerous as he pretended. Unfortunately, there was only one way to find out for sure——give him…

— Sabrina Jeffries

The fact that other countries spy on their own people or spy on each other does not address the fact that the…

— Jesselyn Radack

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls…

— Aristotle

Abby must have been the one who found the safe house, because Townsend didn't like it. "The building across the street is…

— Ally Carter

“Other personalities are created to handle new traumas, their existence usually occurring one at a time. Each has a singular purpose and…

— Lynn Hersha

What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a…

— Annie Dillard

“For many years there have been rumours of mind control experiments. in the United States. In the early 1970s, the first of…

— Cheryl Hersha

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever,…

— Yann Martel

I romanticized about it in my twenties, but I don't think I would have enjoyed being a spy. I worry too much.

— Mark Ivanir

He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything…

— Anonymous

Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their…

— Alex Berenson

“Being a spy was something like standing on the south shore fending off a hurricane with a $2 poncho and an umbrella.”

— Lynn Blackmar

I think 'The Spy Who Loved Me' was the best, or rather the one I enjoyed doing the most.

— Roger Moore

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

— Christine Keeler

I have no plans to write an autobiography, I will leave that to others. I'm sure they will turn me into a…

— Cary Grant

I once dated a guy who was like, 'Holy sh--, I just made out with Harriet the Spy!' And that's messed up.…

— Michelle Trachtenberg

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

“I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their…

— Anonymous

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

— Kresley Cole

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

— Agnes Smedley

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me.…

— Carrie Fisher

I wanted to look like the most diverse writer in comics! Spy genre, space genre, crime genre, and then you realize that…

— Tom King

I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be…

— Lisa Tuttle

The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you stood - was…

— John le Carre