Spy Quotes

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
Graham Greene

Great, Boring, Word

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.
John le Carre

Lonely, Away, Rather

Spy plots are hard, really hard.
Rashida Jones

The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
Buffalo Bill

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

Women, Help, Office

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
Daniel Craig

Life, Movies, Wanted

I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
Dana Delany

Good, Notice, Recognized

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
John le Carre

Experience, Through, Lives

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
Gary Oldman

Almost, Terrible, Lying

What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.
Jello Biafra

Country, Living, Serious

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.
John le Carre

Real, Between, Lies

Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Today, Else, Between

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.
Carrie Fisher

Life, Battle, House

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
John le Carre

Life, Political, Before

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
Ian Mcewan

Masters, Novels, Novelists

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

Time, Understand, Between

In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.
Rowan Atkinson

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

Night, Desert, Steal

I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.
Nathan Fillion

Work, Movies, Character

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.
Elizabeth Hurley

Wanted, British, Surprised

However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.
Christine Keeler

Proud, However, Dress

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

Reality, Perfect, Head

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.
Sherman Alexie

I usually have a couple of projects going on that are different. A 'Sin City' while I'm doing a 'Spy Kids' at the same time. I need different things going on.
Robert Rodriguez

Time, Different, Same

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
Alison Bechdel

The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.
Cliff Stearns

Act, Hijacking, Prohibits

The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.
Rachel Maddow

Beautiful, Above, Private

Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.
Lauren Graham

Government, Car, Father

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.
Helen Fielding

Fun, Writing, Rather

It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.
Victor Garber

Care, Together, Happen

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