Spy Thriller Quotes

#1. I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.

Jamie Bell

#2. In a short story by Chekhov or a novel by Balzac he found mysteries which, so far as he was aware, did not exist in any spy thriller. 35

Amos Oz

#3. Obviously, 'Homeland' is not just a spy thriller. It's more than that, but 'Tyrant' will be a bit more of a palace drama. It'll be about the families, but there will be political intrigue as well.

Adam Rayner

#4. 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

#5. He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.

Frederick Forsyth

#6. part spy thriller, part cultural and political reclamation, The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#7. I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers.

Nelson DeMille

#8. I've got to think of a hundred and sixty million Americans, not of the three or four that happen to be the ones I love. And it wouldn't be a big thing - security is built on lots of little thing. I don't like to talk about it. (Calhoun Hightower in Danger for Breakfast)

John McPartland

#9. Anger tells us we've disconnected from life. The purpose in anger is to use it to come back to life.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#10. Believe me, I know a lot about harm's way. It turns sharp left off the road to Shitsville when you're least expecting it.

Philip Kerr

#11. Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.

James Morcan

#12. I just wanted to buy a spy novel. I didn't want to be in one.

Jeffrey Westhoff

#13. Become the actual leader, the face, the voice, the embodiment of the revolution. The person

Suzanne Collins

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

Fred Cooper

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

Linda Davies

#16. What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

Malorie Blackman

#17. The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the field, like pinballs caught in a tight corner.

Cole Alpaugh

#18. Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them.

Tom Greer

#19. 'Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun.

Adam Rayner

#20. He felt as though the bones of his ribcage were snapping beneath the weight of the stone that God had laid over his heart.

Daniel Silva

#21. PSA40.1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

Anonymous

#22. Limp finally spoke. Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?

Cole Alpaugh

#23. He offered me a ride up from the abyss and I took it. But a ride with the devil is never free. And accepting that ride can only lead to hell.

S.D. Skye

#24. It's not the game, Zee. It's the fame. Everyone wants to be affiliated with a winner.

S.M. Parker

#25. If you live your life in fear and had the opportunity to change. . .could you muster the strength?

P.C. Chinick

#26. Let's see, I think I right now I'm third in the money-winning and first in money-spending.

Tony Lema

#27. Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,

G.K. Chesterton

#28. Around the college had grown up in the latter nineteenth century a hap-hazard, ill-blanced collection of professional schools, attended by hard-working meagre creatures with the fun drained out of them...

Yale University

#29. People think that saving the planet or finding their place in that effort is a really overwhelming thought.

Nikki Reed

#30. The goal of a just society should be to provide satisfying work with a living wage to all its citizens.

Michael Dirda

#31. After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.

Mason Cooley

#32. On a basic level, he had seen first-hand how his government used the element of fear to accomplish its objectives; the same element of fear that had been used as an excuse to engage its huge war machine in conflicts for the profits of America's oligarchy.

Kenneth Eade

#33. I think you've got something there, but I'll wait outside until you clean it up

Groucho Marx

#34. Society tends to stick labels on everything and everyone. The label that is given to you will stick with you for a lifetime.

Kenneth Eade

#35. Grandma frowned and yelled something in Russian. She could have been saying, 'Open up, your best friend is here.' On the other hand, it could have been, 'America is a great country because of canned ravioli.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#36. Home was wherever they were together, and it felt good.

Kenneth Eade

#37. You live your life between your ears.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#38. Nobody seems to remember you from any of your employers."
"I guess I'm not very memorable

Kenneth Eade

#39. Mr. Rogan, I am magician, not God.

Kenneth Eade

#40. Around here, 'tomorrow night' means anywhere from five days to a month. Jesus,

Bret Easton Ellis

#41. Cono felt embarrassed by the thought that he might have been just another pitiful orphan trying to turn his friends into family, and that he might be blinded by this need, a need that colored his whole life, that ache to offer worth to someone.

Victor Robert Lee

#42. He'd done this hundreds of times: done a job, been drugged with a narcotic that erased his short term memory, and dumped in a seedy hole in the wall locale, where when he climbed out, he would have to figure out where he was, find a payphone, and call in for his next job.

Jennifer Arnett