Quotes About Stealth

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

If all the fish in the sea kept their mouths shut, they'd never get caught" is an often repeated mantra in the world of organized crime.

It takes years to learn how to steal, to use the cover of night. It's not easy. You have to practice it. And you need someone who knows what they're doing to teach you. You've got to be aware of everything at once. And you always have to be careful about making noise. You've got to learn to move without noise.

He'd first make sure the guests were asleep by listening at the window. When he was satisfied, he'd open the door, enter quickly, get down to the ground, and wait, making certain the guests weren't disturbed. Then he'd crawl across the floor, as Mike had taught him, and find the wallets, cash, and watches using a penlight to see.

So I sat down on the stairs and removed my shoes and socks, putting them on again in reverse order, with the socks over the shoes. It's an old trick, favoured by burglars, for muffling the sound of shoe-leather on a hard surface.

In my experience, Corporal, the best police work looks like nothing at all and is always soon forgotten." I

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.

I like working in the shadows.

Ninjas are so cool!

You must never underestimate the power of the surreptitious.

The fox that tarries long is on the Watch for prey.

So.... You are well equipped for our service.' 'Which is?' 'We kill people.

The requirements for covert operations weren't for the faint-hearted or overly modest, let me tell you.

Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or government. When they went missing or sunk, nobody went looking for them. They simply disappeared into the ether.

Go Panther-pawed where all the mined truths sleep. Not smash and grab, but rather find and keep; Go panther-pawed where all the mined truths sleep To detonate the hidden seeds with stealth So in your wake a weltering dream of wealth Springs up unseen, ignored and left behind As you sneak on, pretending to be blind.

Will became a bush under a bush, a shadow among shadows, with two starlight rounds of glass, his eyes, holding the image of Jim calling up in a whisper toward the second floor windows (Bradbury 90). This quote shows that Will hid behind the bush so well that no one can see him, that he became a shadow among shadows. The phrase shadow among shadows is to show that no one can see him, he is a shadow in a shadow

These were mixed with parts that, when assembled, transformed themselves into a custom-made long-barreled pistol, made entirely of an advanced plastic that would pass most detectors and which fired recoilless, near-silent cartridges with self-consuming casings, He'd brought the ammunition himself on the Earth shuttle.

with the key taped inside the left-rear wheel well.

Submarines were treated as rattlesnakes by anyone who sighted them.

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.

There are four rules for shadowing: Keep behind your subject as much as possible; never try to hide from him; act in a natural manner no matter what happens; and never meet his eye.

Describing a Navy SEAL- I have no idea what 'unconventional warfare' really means, but i'm pretty sure i was on my way to meet a man who could kill me in 7 different ways with a flip-flop.

General James Gavin, the commander of the 82d Airborne Division in World War II, carried an M1 Garand rifle, then the standard American-infantry weapon of World War II. He advised young infantry officers not to carry any equipment that would make them stand out in the eyes of the enemy.

No thief was going to try any funny stuff with a top detective hanging around. I decided to go undercover. And I didn't mean climbing into bed.