Clancy Sigal Quotes

But even now, a full century after he wrote his first school poem, scratched out in startlingly plain words on onion skin paper with a number two pencil, his heart and soul remain as fresh and brave as ever. Hemingway lives. ~ Clancy Sigal

Diplomatic exchange combined the worst aspects of explaining things to a toddler and talking with a mother-in-law. It was dull, it was tedious, it was exasperating, and it was necessary. ~ Tom Clancy

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change. ~ Tom Clancy

No complaints. The kid is back in the saddle," Jackson said, sitting down. "You should have been up in the Tomcat with me last week. Oh, man, I'm finally back in the groove. I was hassling with a guy in an A-4 playing aggressor, and I ruined his day. It was so fine." He grinned like a lion surveying a herd of crippled antelope. "I'm ready!" "When ~ Tom Clancy

Before, it was always, 'Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.' Now it's, 'Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.' But I'm still the same basic middle-class slob. ~ Tom Clancy

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us. ~ Tom Clancy

Jude: But I thought Fancy was the Slip Kid?
Olivia: Fancy?
Ruby: He nicknamed Clancy.
Olivia: Fancy sort of suits him. ~ Alexandra Bracken

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. ~ Tom Clancy

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand. ~ Tom Clancy

I love to read, and I love Martina Cole. ~ Abbey Clancy

Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it. ~ Tom Clancy

Panic is something that good operations officers plan for. ~ Tom Clancy

He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius. ~ Tom Clancy

you can follow along. ~ Tom Clancy

If you're really good, they'd taught him at Quantico, you don't have to be arrogant. ~ Tom Clancy

One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun. ~ Tom Clancy

Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative ... except by execution. ~ Tom Clancy

You will come to understand how they work, their dedication and the personal sacrifices they make. For these are truly the people who stand guard on the walls of freedom, while the rest of us sleep safely in our homes. ~ Tom Clancy

I can't stop staring at my beautiful new baby. ~ Abbey Clancy

He looked hopelessly melted. Sex definitely led to smudging. ~ Clancy Nacht

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that. ~ Tom Clancy

The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes! ~ Abbey Clancy

No man who could rationalize the death of a child could truly be called a man at all, ~ Tom Clancy

Foster poured some more bourbon for his guest. I don't know what it's ~ Tom Clancy

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs. ~ Tom Clancy

Wayne's cool. I ran into him at my hangout back home, and he's just cool. I actually have this beat that I want him on, but I was too scared to get it to Clancy to get to them, but Wayne's cool. ~ Tyler, The Creator

Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser. ~ Tom Clancy

That's up to you, Jack, but part of doing this kind of work is the willingness to put on blinders. Deal with what's in front of you. Every terrorist has a mother and father. Maybe kids, maybe people that love him. Hell, six days out of seven he might be a decent citizen, but on that one day he decides to pick up a gun or plant a bomb, he's a threat. And if you're the guy standing between him and innocent lives, the threat is all you can afford to worry about. You get what I'm saying? ~ Tom Clancy

Throughout history, people have risked their lives for love, for patriotism, for principle, and for God far more often than fear has made them run away. Upon that fact depends progress. The ~ Tom Clancy

My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs. ~ Abbey Clancy

If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich. ~ Robert Gottlieb

Cheating was a concept both foreign and integral to the fighting of wars. ~ Tom Clancy

Thing, most deadly of all to those who hold it in their earthly hands. For yourself, you must decide. What sort of leader do you wish to be, and with what other leaders ~ Tom Clancy

The coat went over his shoulder. It was too hot here for that, and hotter still where he was going. He'd have to wear a coat there. It was expected, one of those curious rules of formal behavior that demanded the maximum discomfort to attain the proper degree of decorum. ~ Tom Clancy

My mum had four kids on her own, so if I had one kid with one nanny and not a full-time job, it would be a joke. And I think the impossible happens when you leave your kids. I've seen so many nannies in the park on their phones, and the kids are running off. ~ Abbey Clancy

All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York. ~ Tom Clancy

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students. ~ Tom Clancy

I write strictly for fun ... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it. ~ Tom Clancy

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place. ~ Tom Clancy

I'm used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby. ~ Abbey Clancy

The most important lesson that came out of Vietnam for me was that Marines take care of Marines. ~ Tom Clancy

Leather pants are my guilty fashion pleasure. I have at least 10 pairs in navy, red, white, dusty pink, grey, suede and black. ~ Abbey Clancy

I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school. ~ Tom Clancy

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. ~ Tom Clancy

The only people Ryan needed to impress were those who knew him; he cared little for the rest. ~ Tom Clancy

People see my modelling and see me getting papped all the time and don't really get to see me because I don't do much TV or whatever. ~ Abbey Clancy

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly. ~ Tom Clancy

Time was the ultimate commodity, and you were born with only so much to spend, and there was no passbook to tell you the exact amount. ~ Tom Clancy

Fear Not:
You don't have to clear your eyes to see that fear is nothing but a shadow on your soul. Open your heart, lift your chin to the sky and the grace-filled light glistening off an angel's wings will dispel that darkness. ~ Robert Clancy

You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn't divinely inspired – it's hard work. ~ Tom Clancy