Spy Quote by Alison Bechdel Download Open image “I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.” — Alison Bechdel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Harriet The Spy Spy
I think of Harriet Muse as one fierce lady. She couldn't read. She had no education. She did labor her whole life. And she… — Beth Macy Copy Share Image
“One of the things to be learnt about spying is that the least likely is the most probable. --Sir Dick White, Head of MI6,… — John Knoerle Copy Share Image
Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
“That wasn't like spying. Any fool can spy. A spy has a clean, exciting life. But try and spend ten years in a hard… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Spies should be able to endure torture and still keep their secrets. I spilled mine out like pennies from a broken piggy bank.” — Myra McEntire Copy Share Image
In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens. — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy.… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“There are many famous people who could read extremely fast. It was said that England’s Samuel Johnson could read almost as fast as he… — Peter Kump Copy Share Image
Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“My homosexuality remained at that point purely theoretical, an untested hypothesis. But it was a hypothesise so thorough and so convincing I saw no… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“I put the odds on a psychic deathmatch between Attila the Hun and Virginia Woolf at fifty-fifty.” — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“Then there were those famous wings. Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian… — C.J. Sansom 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 CIA has… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows the form… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they… — Sun Tzu 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 largest and… — John Perkins 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 public tends… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have… — Pia Zadora Copy Share Image
They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
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