Spy Adventure Quotes

#1. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma. That's where I trace the familial line of murder mystery obsession.

Christopher Bollen

#2. Being a spy was something like standing on the south shore fending off a hurricane with a $2 poncho and an umbrella.

Lynn Blackmar

#3. Life is not two sheets of paper, one black, one white. Life is a ream of paper, each page a different shade of gray.

Roland Smith

#4. Funny how the most beautiful people in the world aren't always the types to gloss the covers of magazines and yet most people spend their lives trying to turn heads.

Marilyn Grey

#5. The person who forgets the ultimate is a slave to the immediate.

John C. Maxwell

#6. Ark Storm - what if you could control the weather?

Linda Davies

#7. Anyone who thinks life is boring hasn't lived

Fred Cooper

#8. In climbing, there was always a fraction of a second between the security of being locked in and the freedom of an actual rappel.

Paul Aertker

#9. As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.

James Salter

#10. Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been the escape reading of choice.

Michael Dirda

#11. It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

Walter Benjamin

#12. It is interesting how fashion filters down and we discover in the "Devil Wears Prada" that we're all prey to trends, even if we think we are not.

Meryl Streep

#13. I'm governor of New York.

Andrew Cuomo

#14. An American credit card ... is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

Edward Bellamy

#15. Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death.

Lynn Blackmar

#16. It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.

John Leeson

#17. Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#18. When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. When we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. Confronted with machines a million times as powerful, we are faced with a gigantic programming problem.

Edsger Dijkstra

#19. It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

Robert Byrd

#20. I went back to my own innocent little chores and sat in my office as the fall drew imperceptibly on and the earth leaned on its axis and shouldered the spot I occupied a little out of the direct, billowing, crystalline, consuming blaze of the enormous sun.

Robert Penn Warren

#21. I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

Ronnie Dunn