Top 100 Clancy Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#4. 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
#5. Cate:"What are you doing?"
Ruby:"Locking Clancy Gray in a closet.
Alexandra Bracken
#6. A stunner ... reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest.
James Rollins
#7. Clancy. You really want to pretend we're on the same team?"
"Aren't I basically the mascot?
Alexandra Bracken
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Jude: But I thought Fancy was the Slip Kid?
Olivia: Fancy?
Ruby: He nicknamed Clancy.
Olivia: Fancy sort of suits him.
Alexandra Bracken
#11. Before, it was always, 'Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.' Now it's, 'Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.' But I'm still the same basic middle-class slob.
Tom Clancy
#12. Michael Connelly's Series Order Diana Gabaldon's Series Order Patricia Cornwell's Series Order Fern Michael's Series Order Robert Ludlum's Series Order Harlan Coben's Series Order Terry Pratchett's Series Order J.A. Jance's Series Order Tom Clancy's
A.J. Stone
#13. Rube, this is me you're talking to, Clancy Crew, remember? Your best buddy? And I hate to break it to you this way but your grandmother on your mother's side, she isn't sick - she's dead!
Lauren Child
#14. You told Clancy to take her pom-poms and go home.
Abigail Roux
#15. Abbey Clancy is incredible. I saw a picture of her in a white suit recently, and she looked amazing. Victoria Beckham always looks classy, and I like Coleen Rooney's style too.
Amy Childs
#16. When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was 'Hunt for Red October' by Tom Clancy.
Max Brooks
#17. Nico looked up at me, and I finally understood that he was waiting for Jude, not for Clancy.
Alexandra Bracken
#18. I haven't dated Clancy - God help me if I do - but he's tipping my all-men-are-jackasses theory completely over the edge of the scale. To add insult to injury, he looks like the damn cover of a romance novel. I hate those covers.
N.L. Gervasio
#19. I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.
Christopher Buckley
#20. With him, I didn't have to be afraid, not of what I could do intentionally or by mistake. I din't have to throw up every defence I possessed to keep my brain's wandering hands still, because Clancy was more than capable of keeping me out of his head.
Alexandra Bracken
#21. The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.
Matt Dillon
#22. Andy Harp's RETRIBUTION is a stunner: a blow to the gut and shot of adrenaline. Here is a novel written with authentic authority and bears shocking relevance to the dangers of today. It reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest. Put this novel on your must-read list-anything by Harp is now on mine.
James Rollins
#23. If the question is, 'Do I wish I made thirty million dollars a year,' the answer is, 'You bet.' If the question is, 'Do I wish I could write like Tom Clancy,' the answer must remain, 'No.'
Christopher Buckley
#24. If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich.
Robert Gottlieb
#25. Gideon had killed Nathan to protect me. Clancy had made sure Gideon would never pay for it.
Sylvia Day
#26. He moved so our noses touched. "I'm a human who can become a wolf. Smell is really important to me, and you, Rachel Clancy, smell like mine.
Rebecca Royce
#27. From The World's Strongest Librarian who quotes Tom Clancy: The only way to do all the things you'd like to is to read.
Josh Hanagarne
#28. With the selection of Acting Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy as the director, President Obama has guaranteed that the agency will continue to lurch from one shocking security failure to another.
Ronald Kessler
#29. Tom clancy probably wears a baseball hat when he has sex
Megan Boyle
#30. Zane held his breath. "They're all clean?"
Owen winced. "I'm not going to say yes. The redhead gave Digger her number, so I'd fire her immediately for poor judgment."
"Hey!" Digger grunted.
"Clancy would eat you alive," Zane told Digger with a smirk.
Abigail Roux
#31. Why do you have to take every good thing we try to give you and break it into pieces?" Nico said. "You let them turn you into this ... "
"This is who I am," Clancy snapped. "I won't let them change me. I won't let them touch me. Not again.
Alexandra Bracken
#32. 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
#33. You can always find an expert to confirm your belief, no matter how ridiculous.
Tom Clancy
#34. 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
#35. good data organized effectively was the most important commodity for any analyst.
Tom Clancy
#36. The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read
Tom Clancy
#38. The five hundred feet up the square-spiral staircase
Tom Clancy
#39. It's all about intelligence; and intelligence comes down to a bunch of faceless bureaucrats sifting through all this crap.
Tom Clancy
#40. That's the ultimate pornography There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.
Tom Clancy
#41. I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
Abbey Clancy
#42. Everything was politics, and politics was ideology, and ideology came down to personal prejudices rather than the quest for truth.
Tom Clancy
#43. The first rumors about Zenith came from the Czechoslovakians.
Tom Clancy
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#49. If you don't write it down, it never happened.
Cathy (& Jack) Ryan
Tom Clancy
#50. Yes,' Smirnov answered, 'he was on a nuclear-powered submarine.
Tom Clancy
#51. One presidential advisor to another: If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.
Tom Clancy
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Morituri Non Cognant (Those Who are About to Die, Just Don't know)
Tom Clancy
#55. 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
#56. What am I supposed to do about you?
Tom Clancy
#59. An overnight success is ten years in the making.
Tom Clancy
#61. 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
#62. I don't discuss works in progress ...
Tom Clancy
#63. Marine. Say the word to any American, and you can count on a strong reaction.
Tom Clancy
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. I'm a spy ... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business.
Tom Clancy
#67. 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
#68. Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
Tom Clancy
#69. I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.
Abbey Clancy
#70. A bureaucrat who said no to everything rarely got in trouble.
Tom Clancy
#71. The first step in accomplishing any goal was deciding that it was possible.
Tom Clancy
#72. There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
Tom Clancy
#73. In a toxic, festering sort o' way...
Tom Clancy
#74. 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
#75. If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth
Tom Clancy
#76. Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.
Clancy Brown
#77. Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud,
Tom Clancy
#78. Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.
Tom Clancy
#79. 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
#80. You just had to apply judgment to your action, and such judgment came with experience - but experience often came from bad decisions.
Tom Clancy
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.
Abbey Clancy
#84. 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
#85. When I go to peoples' houses I like to sneak into their bedrooms and try on their underwear.
Tom Clancy
#86. No man can be stolen who doesn't consent to his own theft.
Clancy Nacht
#87. Robert, that's a little too far off the wall, I think, Greer analyzed.
Tom Clancy
#88. Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.
Tom Clancy
#89. Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.
Tom Clancy
#90. 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
#91. What do I know about sex? I'm a married man.
Tom Clancy
#92. 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
#93. She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl
Tom Clancy
#94. 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
#95. Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.
Tom Clancy
#96. Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.
Tom Clancy
#97. Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
Tom Clancy
#98. He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.
Tom Clancy
#99. 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
#100. After you stop believing in santa claus, the whole world just goes downhill
Tom Clancy
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