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Quotes About Clandestine

Mouse liked going places in the car. That the place had happened to be a clandestine meeting in a freaking graveyard didn't seem to spoil anything for him. It was all about the journey, not the destination. A very Zen soul, was Mouse.
~ Jim Butcher
Nous volons au passage un plaisir clandestin Que nous pressons bien fort comme une vieille orange. (34)
~ Unknown
In some ways it was the conventional clandestine affair in a place like San Bernardino, a place where little is bright or graceful, where it is routine to misplace the future and easy to start looking for it in bed.
~ Joan Didion
Even secret armies and political fronts needed clerks
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
unofficial money.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Christmas is a clandestinely ingenious script that outlines a plan to reclaim mankind through a strategy unimagined and unimaginable. This strategy involved God writing His own death into the script.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.
~ Philippa Gregory
?? ????? ???? ?????? ?? ???????? ???????????? ?????? "c'ai takèissa 'na medà meshônà fàita a paraqua" – "?? ?? ?? ????? ?????? ????, ??? ?? ? ?????????".
~ Primo Levi
or some federal black-op outfit with no name, that is more problematic.
~ Dean Koontz
están prohibidas. Hasta hace algunos años, cualquiera que hubiera perdido en una partida clandestina podía reclamar en el plazo de ocho días que le devolvieran lo perdido.
~ Unknown
There is something addictive about secrets.
~ J. Edgar Hoover
the SOE was formed to carry out operations seen as being too politically explosive, illegal, or unconscionable to be embraced by the wider British establishment.
~ Unknown
They don't advertise, and their names are never in the papers. I doubt if a member has been arrested in the past ten years. It's a small network, very tight and disciplined.
~ John Grisham
I can see none of you are smugglers; that's why it's so loud.
~ Eugene Ormandy
Have you ever or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage, or in terrorist activities, or genocide? I think we can put a big yes down for all of the above.
~ Unknown
It did seem unlikely that the dead human had been a GrayCris agent, because somebody had killed him. As far as I knew, I was the only one currently on the station looking for GrayCris agents to kill. I just realized I don't like the phrase "as far as I knew" because it implies how much you actually don't know. I'm not going to stop using it, but. I don't like it as much anymore.
~ Martha Wells
underground garage.
~ Unknown
It is better to exist unknown to the law.' 
~ Michael Scott
He was a kind of éminence grise, a political leader, in a clandestine movement. Everyone knows there are girls who go for that kind of thing. There are girls who go for Huysmanists, for that matter. I once met a girl -- a pretty, attractive girl -- who told me she fantasized about Jean-François Copé. It took me several days to get over it. Really, with girls today, all bets are off.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Distinguished Intelligence Cross, the highest honor bestowed by the CIA. The award goes to clandestine service members for "a voluntary act or acts of extraordinary heroism involving the acceptance of existing dangers with conspicuous fortitude and exemplary courage.
~ Mitchell Zuckoff
Wait a minute George. You don't mean you broke in?" "No, not exactly. Well . . . is this line secure?" "Absolutely." "Then yes.
~ Unknown
And it was a secret thing, of sorts. I have always had a weakness for secrets.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
A secret, Teccam explains, is true knowledge actively concealed.
~ Patrick Rothfuss