Clancy Quotes

#1. I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

Tom Clancy

#2. The acting director of the Secret Service, Joseph Clancy, said they may make the fence around the White House taller because of the recent security failures. When asked if he had any other ideas, he said, 'Uh, make the sidewalk lower?'

Jimmy Fallon

#3. You can always find an expert to confirm your belief, no matter how ridiculous.

Tom Clancy

#4. The pinnacle of power in China is the nine-member Politburo Standing Committee, the tiny body that sets policy for the nation's 1.4 billion citizens.

Tom Clancy

#5. good data organized effectively was the most important commodity for any analyst.

Tom Clancy

#6. The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read

Tom Clancy

#7. You won't break me. Just fucking own me.

Clancy Nacht

#8. The five hundred feet up the square-spiral staircase

Tom Clancy

#9. It's all about intelligence; and intelligence comes down to a bunch of faceless bureaucrats sifting through all this crap.

Tom Clancy

#10. That's the ultimate pornography There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.

Tom Clancy

#11. I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!

Abbey Clancy

#12. Everything was politics, and politics was ideology, and ideology came down to personal prejudices rather than the quest for truth.

Tom Clancy

#13. The first rumors about Zenith came from the Czechoslovakians.

Tom Clancy

#14. Wayne's cool. I ran into him at my hangout back home, and he's just cool. I actually have this beat that I want him on, but I was too scared to get it to Clancy to get to them, but Wayne's cool.

Tyler, The Creator

#15. There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy

#16. I'm ready. No matter what's ahead for us. I'm ready to go down any road with you. Go through any door. I know that now, more than I ever did.

Jim Clancy

#17. Clancy had taught me well.

Alexandra Bracken

#18. The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!

Abbey Clancy

#19. I never go wild with nails.

Abbey Clancy

#20. attack was coming. The

Tom Clancy

#21. If you don't write it down, it never happened.
Cathy (& Jack) Ryan

Tom Clancy

#22. I rubbed my face with my hands, trying to clear away the image of Clancy Gray trapped down in the dark. That's where he belongs, came the savage voice in my mind.

Alexandra Bracken

#23. Yes,' Smirnov answered, 'he was on a nuclear-powered submarine.

Tom Clancy

#24. One presidential advisor to another: If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.

Tom Clancy

#25. Whackos like Liberty Association belong in jail. I don't care if they're misguided or had bad childhoods. We've all got problems; we don't all try to kill people we disagree with.

Clancy Nacht

#26. Cate:"What are you doing?"
Ruby:"Locking Clancy Gray in a closet.

Alexandra Bracken

#27. Ebola is a nasty disease to get. It's scary. But as a weapon, it is probably not likely. Ebola is a difficult malady to weaponize and deliver efficiently.

Tom Clancy

#28. Morituri Non Cognant (Those Who are About to Die, Just Don't know)

Tom Clancy

#29. Jack ordered a bottle of pinot noir, and they perused the menu while they chatted. "So you were at Georgetown." Melanie said it as a statement.

Tom Clancy

#30. What am I supposed to do about you?

Tom Clancy

#31. Wars are begun by frightened men.

Tom Clancy

#32. A stunner ... reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest.

James Rollins

#33. He had to grow his own NCOs.

Tom Clancy

#34. An overnight success is ten years in the making.

Tom Clancy

#35. Life sucks, but don't let it suck you in

Clancy Tucker

#36. Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves.

Clancy Martin

#37. I don't discuss works in progress ...

Tom Clancy

#38. Marine. Say the word to any American, and you can count on a strong reaction.

Tom Clancy

#39. Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

Tom Clancy

#40. When you see something that's so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know.

Clancy Brown

#41. I'm a spy ... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business.

Tom Clancy

#42. It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.

Clancy Brown

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

Tom Clancy

#44. Clancy. You really want to pretend we're on the same team?"
"Aren't I basically the mascot?

Alexandra Bracken

#45. I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.

Abbey Clancy

#46. A bureaucrat who said no to everything rarely got in trouble.

Tom Clancy

#47. The first step in accomplishing any goal was deciding that it was possible.

Tom Clancy

#48. There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

Tom Clancy

#49. In a toxic, festering sort o' way...

Tom Clancy

#50. From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, We will fight our country's battles in the air, on land and sea. First to fight for right and freedom, and to keep our honor clean, We are proud to claim the title of United States Marines. - Marine Corps Hymn

Tom Clancy

#51. If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth

Tom Clancy

#52. Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.

Clancy Brown

#53. I'm never going to be a Tom Clancy. And I wouldn't really want to be - not that I have anything against him, and I wish him continued success - because that's not why I'm writing novels. I'm doing it because I have to. I feel like I have to, anyway.

Michael Chabon

#54. Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud,

Tom Clancy

#55. Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

Tom Clancy

#56. When I started writing, I was reading people such as Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, who did 'Jurassic Park,' which is possibly the most action-filled book you'll read, apart from mine, and I said to myself, 'Why aren't these guys doing big-scale action like you would see in a movie?'

Matthew Reilly

#57. My mum used Avon Skin So Soft oil when I was younger. She would have a bath, and then the smell used to fill the whole house.

Abbey Clancy

#58. You just had to apply judgment to your action, and such judgment came with experience - but experience often came from bad decisions.

Tom Clancy

#59. Not a very nice place is it?" rosen asked as they came back for the last load.
"they say there's a hundred different kinds of snake there. ninety-nine are poisonous."
"and the other one?"
kelly handed a carton over to the doctor. "that one eats your ass whole.

Tom Clancy

#60. 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

#61. I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.

Abbey Clancy

#62. Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

Tom Clancy

#63. Jude: But I thought Fancy was the Slip Kid?
Olivia: Fancy?
Ruby: He nicknamed Clancy.
Olivia: Fancy sort of suits him.

Alexandra Bracken

#64. When I go to peoples' houses I like to sneak into their bedrooms and try on their underwear.

Tom Clancy

#65. No man can be stolen who doesn't consent to his own theft.

Clancy Nacht

#66. Robert, that's a little too far off the wall, I think, Greer analyzed.

Tom Clancy

#67. Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.

Tom Clancy

#68. Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

Tom Clancy

#69. 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

#70. What do I know about sex? I'm a married man.

Tom Clancy

#71. Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see them in real life, it reinforces how brilliant they think they are.

Tom Clancy

#72. She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl

Tom Clancy

#73. Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

Tom Clancy

#74. Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.

Tom Clancy

#75. Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.

Tom Clancy

#76. Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

Tom Clancy

#77. He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.

Tom Clancy

#78. When I was doing 'Executive Orders,' I talked about Ebola to people who know about infectious diseases and their use as weapons of war, and guys told me that these weapons are more psychological than physical.

Tom Clancy

#79. After you stop believing in santa claus, the whole world just goes downhill

Tom Clancy

#80. It wasn't to free him of his guilt.
It wasn't to punish him.
It wasn't anything other than an act of mercy.

Alexandra Bracken

#81. I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

#82. I read somewhere once that getting lost is the best way to find yourself.

Joanne Clancy

#83. The only difference between a wise man and a fool was in the magnitude of his mistakes. To err was human, and the smarter and more powerful you were, the greater the scope of your screwup.

Tom Clancy

#84. I love being a mum. Sophia is so funny and has a great personality.

Abbey Clancy

#85. I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.

Abbey Clancy

#86. All history is really nothing more than the application of ideology to the past.

Tom Clancy

#87. We cannot fail to win - unless we fail to try.

Tom Clancy

#88. Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Clancy Brown

#89. the problem with so secure a place was that it depended absolutely on secrecy which, once blown, became a fatal liability

Tom Clancy

#90. Nothing is as real as a dream. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.

Tom Clancy

#91. explained, finally picking

Tom Clancy

#92. Can I, just one time, play the good guy?

Clancy Brown

#93. How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

Tom Clancy

#94. America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.

Tom Clancy

#95. I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.

Abbey Clancy

#96. Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

#97. Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake ... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

Tom Clancy

#98. I'm tired of all this. What ever happened to honesty, Arnie? What ever happened to telling the goddamned truth? It's all a fucking game here, and the object of the game isn't to do the right thing, the object of the game is to stay here. It's not supposed to be that way!

Tom Clancy

#99. Every country in the world had a bureaucracy, whose entire purpose was to delay important things from happening.

Tom Clancy

#100. You will come to understand how they work, their dedication and the personal sacrifices they make. For these are truly the people who stand guard on the walls of freedom, while the rest of us sleep safely in our homes.

Tom Clancy