Spy Quotes

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.

I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling her a KGB spy.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

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.