Tom Clancy Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.
In the Soviet Union every worker is a government worker, and they have a saying: As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work.
Diplomacy was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.
The human mind has a way of punishing itself for killing a fellow man. It remembers and relives the incident again and again.
Therefore, it is in our mutual interests to cause unrest and chaos within America. The new American president is a weak man.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.
The pinnacle of power in China is the nine-member Politburo Standing Committee, the tiny body that sets policy for the nation's 1.4 billion citizens.
The mark of a good officer, Wegener repeatedly told his youngsters, was willingness to admit he had something yet to learn.
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
You just had to apply judgment to your action, and such judgment came with experience - but experience often came from bad decisions.
Mr. President. Douglas MacArthur said every military disaster can be explained in two words: 'Too late.
We wait. No sense spooking him. We let him come in nice and close while we do our famous imitation of a hole in the water,
I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.
You have to know the things you don't know. You have to figure out what the questions are before you can start looking for answers.
No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.
In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
the problem with so secure a place was that it depended absolutely on secrecy which, once blown, became a fatal liability
Jack ordered a bottle of pinot noir, and they perused the menu while they chatted. "So you were at Georgetown." Melanie said it as a statement.
office just wasn't a very good place for thinking, but every executive in the world pretended it was. Christ
(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.
It's all about intelligence; and intelligence comes down to a bunch of faceless bureaucrats sifting through all this crap.
There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
If the shortest distance to any man's heart is his stomach, then one of the better compliments a man can give a woman is to ask for seconds.
Tears released poisons from inside, poisons which if not released could be as deadly as the real kind. The
Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.
Politicians are more concerned with "issues" than "principles," but talked as though the two nouns had the same meaning.
Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.
There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
Question that remained now was whether he would be alive to perform the day's final salaat. That was in Allah's
Your Highness, what do you call it when a high-ranking person lies right in your face?" the President asked with a wry smile. "Diplomacy.