Quote

Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.

Tom Clancy

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Clancy
Age: 66 †
Born: 1947
Born: April 12
Died: 2013
Died: October 1
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Thomas Leo Clancy Jr.
Thomas Leo Tom Clancy Jr.
Thomas Leo Tom Clancy
Jr.
Thomas Clancy
Thomas L. Clancy
Civilians
Listened
Officers
Intelligence

More quotes by Tom Clancy

Image
All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.
Tom Clancy
Image
Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
Tom Clancy
Image
There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
Tom Clancy
Image
Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if X happened? That's how you start.
Tom Clancy
Image
When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.
Tom Clancy
Image
Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
Tom Clancy
Image
Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
Tom Clancy
Image
The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.
Tom Clancy
Image
Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.
Tom Clancy
Image
Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.
Tom Clancy
Image
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
Tom Clancy
Image
The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read
Tom Clancy
Image
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
Tom Clancy
Image
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.
Tom Clancy
Image
I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
Tom Clancy
Image
Literature is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.
Tom Clancy
Image
There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their ability to get along and work together amid the horrors of the battlefield. There is an almost undefinable quality. That quality is the Marine Corps' secret weapon. Their edge. That quality is their ethos.
Tom Clancy
Image
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.
Tom Clancy
Image
Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?
Tom Clancy
Image
I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.
Tom Clancy