Smuggled Quotes

#1. Dan was thrilled that the second clue had been safely smuggled out of the church in his pants.
"So, really, I saved the day," he decided.
"Wait a minute," Amy said, "I climbed onto the roof in the middle of a thunderstorm."
"Yeah, but the clue was in my pants.

Rick Riordan

#2. Marketing is not what lures a writer to this pursuit. Marketing is the adversary that arrives smuggled inside the Trojan Horse of one's creative impulse.

Jane Friedman

#3. Martin Scorsese was being given an honorary doctorate, and one of the tutors asked if there was a student film he particularly liked. He mentioned our film. There was a dinner after the final show just for the tutors, but I was smuggled in to meet Scorsese over dessert.

Asif Kapadia

#4. I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

John Steinbeck

#5. Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

Ivan Krastev

#6. There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.

Denis Kearney

#7. That name was a sadistic play on the Underground Railroad that smuggled American slaves north. The old Nazis set up their own version and used it mainly to move their people. They called it Die Spinne.

John Pearce

#8. But wouldn't it be nice if we all smuggled a few childlike instincts across the border into adulthood? We'd spend more time saying what we mean and asking questions we care about;

Steven D. Levitt

#9. Cats in Vietnam are also on the back paw. In January the police seized three tons of them (see picture) as they were being smuggled from China to fill soup pots in Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital. The authorities buried them, even though some were still alive.

Anonymous

#10. I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building.

Mordechai Vanunu

#11. I do not suppose you have anything less potent?" "Certainly," he said. "I have the finest champagne, imported from France." "No doubt smuggled," Miss Hobson muttered. "Quite so," Vincent said agreeably. "This is Cornwall, after all.

Brooklyn Ann

#12. By precluding meaningful communication it fosters misunderstanding on both sides."
(Freedom Rider Diary: Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison, p. 49)

Carol Ruth Silver

#13. Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#14. I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.

Alban Berg

#15. I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.

Rand Beers

#16. Hascomb snatched an ancient weapon out of his glove compartment. Officers have smuggled them home from the last five wars. The Colt.45 automatic.

John D. MacDonald

#17. our outside loo, known as the Betty, was a good loo; whitewashed and compact with a flashlight hanging behind the door. I smuggled books in there to read them in secret, claiming constipation.

Jeanette Winterson

#18. I have smuggled so many ingredients across so many borders, like shallot confit from Thailand, or a new sauce from New Orleans not approved by the FDA.

Blake Lively

#19. Lief. That's not nice, considering all your sister has done for you," admonished Perl.
"Oh right. How could I forget that she made me bait for a snake, left me on house arrest in Ixia, and smuggled me into the Keep in a coffin.

Maria V. Snyder

#20. We just stole a painting and smuggled ourselves off a train," Amy said, trying to sound confident. "And we can't shop?

Jude Watson

#21. Books entered my house under cover of night, from the four winds, smuggled in by woodland creatures, and then they never left. Books collected on every surface; I believe that somehow they managed to breed

Luc Sante

#22. I didn't smuggle the dog into the country; I merely caused him to be smuggled out of Baluchistan.

Georgette Heyer

#23. Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

C.S. Lewis

#24. It has been estimated that 80 percent of the oil illegally smuggled out of Iraq under oil for food ended up in the United States.

Scott Ritter

#25. The pouches under his eyes were like purses that contained the smuggled memories of a disappointing life.

Graham Greene

#26. Ten Delta Airlines baggage handlers were arrested for smuggling drugs into Detroit. Yeah, you can tell Delta was involved, because the drugs were supposed to be smuggled into Chicago.

Jimmy Fallon

#27. Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#28. Defend Miss Haller from the Nazis. In the final chapter, the ghosts saw off the spies and word came through that Miss Haller's father had been smuggled out of Germany. Gillian

Kim Newman

#29. I'm screwed," Eric repeats, and shakes his head. "I have to go. Take care of her, okay?"
He gives Delia to me as if she were a jewel to be smuggled, a prayer to be whispered between heretics. A pawn. Eric is halfway across the parking lot by the time I answer. "I always do," I say.

Jodi Picoult

#30. Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

Quintilian

#31. I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

Brian Wilson

#32. How intensely do I want to exist?

Sera J. Beak

#33. Legolas was standing, gazing northwards into the darkness, thoughtful and silent as a young tree in a windless night.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#34. When he heard politicians use the phrase "in the best interests of the American people" he knew that it was always a profit-based decision.

Jonathan Maberry

#35. Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.

Richard Stallman

#36. I'm Pate," the other said, "like the pig boy.

George R R Martin

#37. Music gives strength to the spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#38. It's still in my heart. I can do it.

Leon Spinks

#39. If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.

James Levine

#40. Over time, I guess all your teachers find their way into your music, right?

Mitch Albom

#41. There won't be any love to spare in this world as long as there's five francs.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#42. I love the digital camera because it makes shooting easier and economical. I shoot fast, and I can shoot a lot. I shoot rehearsal; I just keep on shooting nonstop.

Anurag Kashyap

#43. Hi, I'm Day.
Hi, I'm June.

Marie Lu