Tom Clancy Quotes

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.
Tom Clancy

Fight, Job, Country

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
Tom Clancy

Power, Government, Knowledge

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
Tom Clancy

Change, Nothing, Real

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
Tom Clancy

Two, Themselves, Kinds

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy

Reality, Sense, Between

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that.
Tom Clancy

Life, Good, Else

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.
Tom Clancy

Real, Made, Stuff

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?
Tom Clancy

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?
Tom Clancy

Knowledge, Technology, Today

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.
Tom Clancy

Ground, Fly, Badly

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
Tom Clancy

Book, Wanted, Congress

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
Tom Clancy

Everything, Union, Tried

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.
Tom Clancy

Life, Learning, Die

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.
Tom Clancy

Bad, Someone, Else

Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.
Tom Clancy

Loser, Show, Elitist

The good old days are now.
Tom Clancy

Good, Old, Days

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.
Tom Clancy

Time, Technology, Lives

What do I know about sex? I'm a married man.
Tom Clancy

America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.
Tom Clancy

Country, America, Everybody

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
Tom Clancy

Art, Movies, Different

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
Tom Clancy

Book, Act, Ultimate

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.
Tom Clancy

Battle, Win, Fighting

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
Tom Clancy

I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.
Tom Clancy

Someone, Down, Thought

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?
Tom Clancy

Knowledge, Bad, Television

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Biography

Nationality: American

Born: April 12, 1947

Links

Find on Amazon: Tom Clancy

Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Related Authors

Ernest Hemingway
Richard Bach
Chuck Palahniuk
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gore Vidal
Amelia Barr
Isaac Bashevis Singer
H. P. Lovecraft
More

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us