Top 100 Clancy's Quotes
#1. 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
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#2. never pick up a baby to kiss it," trent said. "they always puke on you, and somebody always gets a picture. always kiss the baby in the mom's arms.
Tom Clancy
#3. No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.
Tom Clancy
#4. What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
Tom Clancy
#5. Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.
Tom Clancy
#6. Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute.
Jennifer V Clancy
#7. 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
#8. I understand why we do that now. It's a help, not a threat. It's something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.
Tom Clancy
#9. For over 220 years, Marines have served at the end of America's operational reach - on freedom's far frontiers. These Marines are the backbone of the ARG/MEU (SOC) team, our regional commanders' force of choice for both forward presence and crisis response.
Tom Clancy
#10. 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
#11. I always have my Laura Mercier foundation and concealer with me, and I love the Rimmel Kate Moss lipsticks. My favourite is shade 08, because it's just such a lovely natural colour with just a bit of pink to it.
Abbey Clancy
#12. I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to the Hello Kitty spa. They had chocolate facials and Hello Kitty mani-pedis. I put it on my Twitter and got lots of abuse for it, but I think it's just a nice girly thing.
Abbey Clancy
#13. I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.
Tom Clancy
#14. It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.
Tom Clancy
#15. Jett smiled and kissed back. Goldie could feel Jett's heart pounding. "The world is mine, and I can hold it in my arms.
Clancy Nacht
#16. 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
#17. There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.
Tom Clancy
#18. I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
Abbey Clancy
#19. If you give people a firm opinion, you run the risk of being wrong. Guess what? People remember when you're wrong a lot more often than when you're right. So the tendency is to include all the possibilities. It's intellectually honest, even.
Tom Clancy
#20. Be the kind of woman who, when your feet hit the floor each morning, the devil says Oh, no! She's up.
Joanne Clancy
#21. 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
#22. Honestly, I don't buy papers or the weeklies. I think when something messy does happen, you just need your closest friends and family all around you, and it's nothing to do with anyone else.
Abbey Clancy
#23. I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it.
Abbey Clancy
#24. It's a leadership function. They taught me that at Quantico. The troops have to see you doing the job. They have to know you're there for them. And I have to be sure that it's all real, that I actually am the President.
Tom Clancy
#25. 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
#26. Scholl Velvet Smooth Express Pedi is just great. You get yourself in a hot bath to soften up your skin and then use this, and it really works. Plus, it's so easy to do, and you don't have to leave the house, so whenever you want to put sandals on, you don't have to worry about going to the salon.
Abbey Clancy
#27. I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.
Tom Clancy
#28. Foster poured some more bourbon for his guest. I don't know what it's
Tom Clancy
#29. Question that remained now was whether he would be alive to perform the day's final salaat. That was in Allah's
Tom Clancy
#30. 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
#31. I'd love to have more kids. I'm one of four, and I've always dreamed of having a huge family. I've loved every second of having Sophia. It's been just the most amazing time of my life. I'd love more of it.
Abbey Clancy
#32. The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.
Tom Clancy
#33. I'm from a normal household. I haven't always had millions to spend on creams and clothes. I like something that's affordable, but good quality. With Avon, it's really accessible, and everyone loves it. It's a brand that you can rely on.
Abbey Clancy
#34. Dominic took the bait: If the President breaks the law, then the House of Representatives impeaches him and the Senate convicts him, and he's out on the street,
Tom Clancy
#35. It's when you stop planning every last detail that you discover the fun in life.
Joanne Clancy
#36. I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.
Tom Clancy
#37. I use loads of moisturising products and make sure I cleanse, tone and moisturise every day. It's just so important to always keep your skin moisturised.
Abbey Clancy
#38. Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.
Tom Clancy
#39. I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.
Abbey Clancy
#40. 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.
Tom Clancy
#41. Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative ... except by execution.
Tom Clancy
#42. I must be the only person in 'Strictly' history who's actually put on weight during rehearsals.
Abbey Clancy
#43. If the shortest distance to any man's heart is his stomach, then one of the better compliments a man can give a woman is to ask for seconds.
Tom Clancy
#44. 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
#45. For a lot of people, it's a massive deal to be on the front row at Fashion Week and look perfect. I don't go to be seen; I go to look at the collections and support my friends, like Henry, Giles and Jonathan Saunders. As much as I love clothes and shopping, it doesn't drive me.
Abbey Clancy
#46. A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.
Tom Clancy
#47. 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
#48. If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it.
Clancy Brown
#49. I am the most even-tempered man i know,' clark protested.
'right, no one's ever lived long enough for you to get really mad. they're dead by the time you're mildly annoyed.
Tom Clancy
#50. No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.
Abbey Clancy
#51. 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
#52. Everything was politics, and politics was ideology, and ideology came down to personal prejudices rather than the quest for truth.
Tom Clancy
#53. One presidential advisor to another: If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.
Tom Clancy
#54. Yes,' Smirnov answered, 'he was on a nuclear-powered submarine.
Tom Clancy
#55. 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
#56. If you don't write it down, it never happened.
Cathy (& Jack) Ryan
Tom Clancy
#59. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. The first rumors about Zenith came from the Czechoslovakians.
Tom Clancy
#65. 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
#66. I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
Abbey Clancy
#67. That's the ultimate pornography There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.
Tom Clancy
#68. It's all about intelligence; and intelligence comes down to a bunch of faceless bureaucrats sifting through all this crap.
Tom Clancy
#69. The five hundred feet up the square-spiral staircase
Tom Clancy
#71. The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read
Tom Clancy
#72. good data organized effectively was the most important commodity for any analyst.
Tom Clancy
#73. 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
#74. You can always find an expert to confirm your belief, no matter how ridiculous.
Tom Clancy
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
Tom Clancy
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
Clancy Brown
#81. I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.
Abbey Clancy
#82. Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.
Tom Clancy
#83. 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
#84. Robert, that's a little too far off the wall, I think, Greer analyzed.
Tom Clancy
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.
Clancy Brown
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#92. An overnight success is ten years in the making.
Tom Clancy
#94. A stunner ... reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest.
James Rollins
#96. What am I supposed to do about you?
Tom Clancy
#97. 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
#98. Morituri Non Cognant (Those Who are About to Die, Just Don't know)
Tom Clancy
#99. 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
#100. Cate:"What are you doing?"
Ruby:"Locking Clancy Gray in a closet.
Alexandra Bracken
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