Tom Clancy Quotes
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The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.
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Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
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The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.
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The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.
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There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.
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That's the ultimate pornography. There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.
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If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.
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We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.
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The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.
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They fought their first action in March of 1775. Embarked on eight small ships, they sailed to the Bahamas and captured a British fort near Nassau, seizing gunpowder and supplies. Later, during the Revolutionary War, Marines fought several engagements in their distinctive green coats, such as helping George Washington to cross the Delaware River, and assisting John Paul Jones on the Bonhomme Richard to capture the British frigate Serapis during their famous sea fight.
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I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
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It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.
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I don't discuss works in progress.
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People, I am actually fairly smart. Why has this not occurred to anyone? The information is all out there, if you go looking for it, and the classified stuff just comes from analyzing the unclassified stuff and connecting the dots.
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Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill.
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I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.
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I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?
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And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.
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Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.
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There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.
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Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.
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If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth
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It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.
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The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.
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I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
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Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.
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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.
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Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?
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There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.
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I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
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