Quotes About Ambler

#1. Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

Alan Furst

#3. 'The Levanter' features some of the strongest action scenes to be found in Ambler - who can, in some of his fiction, stay in one place for a whole novel.

Alan Furst

#4. I would have loved to have another 10 Eric Ambler books.

Alan Furst

#5. countries allow organizations to claim some aspects of software development as R&D and thereby receive tax benefits for doing so.

Scott W. Ambler

#6. Reality is always so obstructive.

Eric Ambler

#7. Every time I tried writing my own songs, they would come out very country. I couldn't fight it, and the more I listened to country music, the more I loved it, and it just became very natural.

Hayley Orrantia

#8. Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it

Eric Ambler

#9. I have found this myself, in my study of Hindu and Buddhist writing, especially of Gandhi. But I have also found it in the writings of the very first Friends,

Rex Ambler

#10. We are trespassing on your hospitality

Eric Ambler

#11. In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

Eric Ambler

#12. Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

Jennifer O'Neill

#13. Surely there were others like me, born without an inkling of direction. The wanderers, the amblers, the dabblers, united by our purposeless mantra-I have no idea what to do with my life.

Suzanne Selfors

#14. I tell you this, my friend; all men are cowards. They dislike a fact except when it is so wrapped up in lies and sentiments that the sharp edge of it cannot hurt them. When a man tells the truth he his, depend upon it, a dangerous man.

Eric Ambler

#15. Don't you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal, we refused?

Kamand Kojouri

#16. But when you have been nourishing your soul on expectation, reality is apt to be disappointing.

Eric Ambler

#17. A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?

Eric Ambler

#18. Ballet is merely a new rationalization of society's instinctive movement towards self-destruction. A dance of death for the Gadarene swine.

Eric Ambler

#19. The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.

Eric Ambler

#20. You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

Wayne Rooney

#21. Cause honey your soul
could never grow old
its evergreen

Ed Sheeran

#22. Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain.

Rama Swami

#23. Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.

Eric Ambler

#24. They don't talk the same language as us. I don't mean that they don't speak English, but that their minds are different. They're like animals, and because I hate the sight and sound of them, and because you're a Britisher, I'm telling you to get out now while the going's good.

Eric Ambler

#25. Trust your instinct in areas you have some background because your instinct is informed and not blind. - L. R. W. Lee

L.R.W. Lee

#26. I am a monster. I have only me.

No One

#27. There aren't that many people walking about who are a total class stereotype.

Ezra Koenig

#28. We can learn only in the expectation of life. Europe is too preoccupied with its destruction to concern itself with such things. A condemned man is interested only in himself, the passage of hours and such intimations of immortality as he can conjure from the recesses of his mind.

Eric Ambler

#29. If such things were not so dangerous one would laugh. But one recognizes the technique. Such propaganda always begins with words, but soon it proceeds to deeds. When there are no facts to support lies, facts must be made.

Eric Ambler

#30. The less there is to look at, the more important it is that we look at it closely and carefully. This is critical to abstract art. Small differences make all the difference.

Kirk Varnedoe

#31. One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#32. In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

John James Audubon

#33. For instance, Visser, the Dutchman, had sold German machine guns to the Chinese, spied for the Japanese and served a term of imprisonment for killing a coolie in Batavia. He was not an easy man to handle.

Eric Ambler

#34. International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

Eric Ambler

#35. Not getting Lasik at this point is like being that girl in 2006 who didn't have a cell phone.

Mindy Kaling

#36. I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.

David Chase