1. “A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.” ~ John le Carre
2. “Spy plots are hard, really hard.” ~ Rashida Jones
3. “Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.” ~ Matt Nix
4. “Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well.” ― Pawan Mishra
5. “So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you’re a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.” ~ Ally Carter
6. “Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.” ~ Charles Bass
7. “If I was a spy, I would have a watch that would cloak me in invisibility.” ~ Kyle
8. “We can do more for the people if they are not so aware of what we are trying to do.” ― Volker G. Fremuth
9. “That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other. – Ally Carter
10. “I’ve been a spy for almost all of my adult life – I don’t like being in the spotlight.” ~ Edward Snowden
11. “From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it’s a big bureaucratic place. Think ‘post office with spies.” ~ Barry Eisler
12. “The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.” ~ Aldrich Ames
13. “A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
14. “What is a Gallagher Girl? She’s a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy… a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.” ~ Ally Carter
15. “Waiting. Like it or not, it’s a skill all spies have to master eventually.” ~ Ally Carter
16. “All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.” ~ Alexander Pope
17. “Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.” ~ Agnes Smedley
18. “The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It’s a world that needs women.” ~ Helen Mirren
19. “The report also said I show great potential as an agent. I figure they must be right, since I successfully broke into a safe to find that out.” ― Amy McAuley
20. “Waiting. Like it or not, it’s a skill all spies have to master eventually.” ~ Ally Carter
21. “If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I’d love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie.” ~ Chris Diamantopoulos
22. “Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.” ~ Ally Carter
23. “Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you’re dealing with something that doesn’t really exist.” ~ Anthony Horowitz
24. “We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.” ~ Christine Keeler
25. “I invented the historical spy novel.” ~ Alan Furst
26. “I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don’t notice me very easily. I never get recognized.” ~ Dana Delany
27. In my head, I think I’d make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don’t think I’d fare very well.” ~ Matthew Rhys
28. “I didn’t know what was more disturbing—the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the world’s premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door.” ~ Ally Carter
29. “If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don’t want to just make spy movies.” ~ Daniel Craig
30. “Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.” ~ Sun Tzu
31. “In the old days, spies had done they’d done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he’d never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren’t employed. They were used.” ~ Anthony Horowitz
32. “Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet.” ~ John McAfee
33. “You can’t be a real spy and have everybody in the world know who you are and what your drink is. That’s just hysterically funny.” ~ Roger Moore
34. “The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.” ~ Cliff Stearns
35. “Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.” ~ Alexis De Veaux
36. “Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.” ~ Stephen King
37. “Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.” ~ Jane Austen
38. “Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you’re dealing with something that doesn’t really exist.” ~ Anthony Horowitz
39. “Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.” ~ Tommy Douglas
40. “Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army’s ability to move.” ~ Sun Tzu
41. “For an old spy and codebreaker like myself, nothing in the world happens by coincidence.” ~ Malcolm Nance
42. “However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.” ~ Christine Keeler
43. “Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.” ~ Michael Weston
44. “From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it’s a big bureaucratic place. Think ‘post office with spies.’– Barry Eisler
45. “All we can do is politely ask aliens from suspect nations to leave … while we sort the peace-loving immigrants from the murderous fanatics…. Muslim immigrants who agree to spy on the millions of Muslim citizens unaffected by the deportation order can stay.” ~ Ann Coulter
46. “There are Russian spies here now. And if we’re lucky, they’ll steal some of our secrets and they’ll be two years behind.” ~ Mort Sahl
47. “I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.” ~ Alison Bechdel
48. “There aren’t enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.” ~ Shelagh Delaney
49. “I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.” ~ David Byrne
50. “I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with … G.” “Sausages.” ~ Adam Rex
51. “Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn’t I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.” ~ Edward Snowden
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