David Letterman Quotes

Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.

Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; He thinks I'm another sort of funny thing, But he doesn't know I'm fishing - He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what I'm doing - Fishing.

... Speaking of which, the boys weren't actually touching the breifcases in the trunk, I hope?" Wondering how Milligan knew, Kate stuck her head out the office door and gave Reynie and Sticky a warning look. They nodded and tried to close the trunk as quietly as possible. "They aren't now anyway." "Good," Milligan said, picking up his duffel bag. "I'd hate to have to speak sternly to them again. It embarasses me to be so ineffective.

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

There were no jewelry hidden. Walt wanted this atmosphere: They were supposed to live here, they've been outside somewhere, but they could come back at any minute and catch us.

I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB.

Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities.

I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.

The '50s were a secretive time.

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.

When you grow up in a border area of Ireland, people are very wary and cagy and keep their head down at all times. Don't speak unless it's absolutely essential, and don't give anything away.

For an old spy and codebreaker like myself, nothing in the world happens by coincidence.

I really wanted to be a spy. I guess it's a bit like acting, where you play a role.

In 'A Scanner Darkly,' as in 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' all intersubjective relations devolve into webs of suspicion and betrayal.

I trust no one - that microphone, that book.

If I was a spy, I would have a watch that would cloak me in invisibility.

I can see Russia from my house.

The life of spies is to know, not bee known.

Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.

The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.