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We can't really spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we? twisted logic, but okay. — Gena Showalter

At the chinks in the drawn blinds, daylight peered like a spy. — Ross Macdonald

We din't speak much from then 'cos speakin' can be heard by spyers what you can't spy. — David Mitchell

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat. — Charles Caleb Colton

That's for me to know, and for you to find out. — Ally Carter

For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed. — John Le Carre

She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was. — Maile Meloy

That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dressed up in a cheap fur coat. — J.D. Salinger

The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands. — John McAfee

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel. — Alan Furst

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. — Ian McEwan

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible — Kurt Vonnegut

There was a sweetness in my voice I found nauseating. I made a note to myself never to have children. Or at least not helpless children. — Tod Goldberg

The U.N. is an American-based bastion of foreign spies. Russia has more spies in the U.S. than there are members of the F.B.I. — Meldrim Thomson Jr.

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages. — Alexis De Veaux

The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing. — Cliff Stearns

She wasn't trying to spy on me
she was just trying to rob me — Brandon Sanderson

part spy thriller, part cultural and political reclamation, The Sympathizer — Viet Thanh Nguyen

I believe a family just isn't complete without skeletons. My dearest momma clean bit off my daddy's nose right around the time they divorced. — Cole Alpaugh

Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business. — Sun Tzu

All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part. — Ally Carter

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy. — Gary Oldman

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes. — E. M. Forster

I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel. — Alex Berenson

Some spy," Irina scoffed. "Perhaps you can post photo to Internet and ask your Bookface friends to confirm. — Clifford Riley

And as every spy knows, common enemies are how allies always begin. — Ally Carter

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing. — Charles Stross

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England — Lauren Willig

Tell me or I'll yell for Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, and you can find out how bex became bex — Ally Carter

Hello fake Everett children. — Monet Polny

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

Madness,' said Daniel. 'Americans. Playing spy games as the world falls apart. — Adam Baker

It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy. — Lucas Till

Ark Storm - what if you could control the weather? — Linda Davies

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'. — Katie Chang

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life. — Carrie Fisher

Coming out of 'Spy Kids,' I immediately wanted to do more grown-up roles, and I was turning down a lot of the kind of younger, cheesier roles. — Daryl Sabara

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star. — Jill Sobule

I have no plans to write an autobiography, I will leave that to others. I'm sure they will turn me into a homosexual or a Nazi spy or something else. — Cary Grant

The burden of a spy, Lord Akeldama always said, was not in the knowing of things but in knowing when to tell such things to others. — Gail Carriger

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

Waiting.
That's always what being a spy comes down to, isn't it? — Embee

Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well. — Pawan Mishra

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe. — Agnes Smedley

She looked at me as if I might be one of them a spy from the world of the ignorant. — Dan Chaon

I just wanted to buy a spy novel. I didn't want to be in one. — Jeffrey Westhoff

Yes, I have an ulcer, for Chrissake. This is Kaliyuga, buddy, the Iron Age. Anybody over sixteen without an ulcer's a goddam spy. — J.D. Salinger

Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something. — Howard Tayler

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other ... until death do them join. — Elbert Hubbard

Governments don't spy on you for your protection, they spy on you to see if you're planning a revolt. — Lori Goodwin

All defectors have a complex relationship with truth. — David Mitchell

An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred. — George Washington

You could be the perfect spy. All you need is a cause. — John Le Carre

I am no spy." "Then start being your own. If Tokyo's the frying pan, you may just have landed in the fire. — William Gibson

She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera' — Paul Simon

I'm really starting to like all this spy work," Vee said. "When my normal life gets boring, all I have to do is sidle up next to you. — Becca Fitzpatrick

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things. — Christopher Lee

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education. — Vladimir Putin

He didn't save women. He damned them. — Madeline Martin

There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living. — Shelagh Delaney

What's a political?"
"Like a spy, but on your own side," said Maladict — Terry Pratchett

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom. — Tommy Douglas

I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me. — Salman Rushdie

Power sits uneasily on those one has grown up with. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Spy. — John Le Carre

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

It's a Chomper standard. - Otto Ray — Monet Polny

What I find interesting about Captain Action is that he is more an adventurer and spy than he is a soldier. — Chris Roberson

He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, A spy upon your insatiable greed . — Diogenes

The denials, if they need be given, could better be given with sincerity, and they could only be feigned if you didn't know them at all. — Kenneth Eade

I recall the eerie pleasure of getting a copy of the U-2 Users' Manual. — George Smoot

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Theatrical Trailer (Courtesy of Focus — John Le Carre

And then Zach said a really bad word, but I doubt DeeDee noticed because it was in Farsi — Ally Carter

Nick: My second point is the same one Larry made about the Judge. The Adversary is not going to expect us to send a retarded person as a spy. — Stephen King

Come join me for some tea so we can discuss how your giong to die — Anthony Horowitz

I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon — Ally Carter Only The Good Spy Young

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem. — Benedict Cumberbatch

The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring. — Pierce Brosnan

Dawidoff, Nicholas. The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg. New York: Vintage, 1994. de — Gregory Benford

One must weather the storm to spy the rainbows. — Sarah Noffke

'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

I always liked spy stories. — Walter Wager

It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate. — Rand Paul

But one thing was for certain: something would happen next. Something always did. Especially when you live the life of a spy. — Embee

Mr. Rogan, I am magician, not God. — Kenneth Eade

I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read. — Barry Eisler

Kiril sat up and raked a hand through his hair. In the light of dawn, Shara was still on his mind. She was a Dark, a spy sent to monitor a spy. — Donna Grant

Choosing providers is not a choice between surveillance/not; it's just choosing which feudal lord gets to spy on you. — Bruce Schneier

I'm a spy ... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business. — Tom Clancy

Diabetes is passed that way
over and down, like a knight in chess. — Maile Meloy

I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life. — Keri Russell

I'm not a spy, which is the real question — Edward Snowden

All seems infected that th' infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. — Alexander Pope

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy. — John Le Carre

We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. — Barack Obama

Even through the hollow eyes of death
I spy life peering. — William Shakespeare

Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them. — Tom Greer

I spy with my little eye a great story. — John Green

Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass. — Astro Teller

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses ... we engaged a spy. — Zebulon Pike

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects. — Jackie Chan