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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cddd433 | I am like my father--witless in matters of the heart, and of a poor way with women; yet the jewels that strew these royal garden paths--the trees, the flowers, the sward--all must have read the love that has filled my heart since first my eyes were made new by imaging your perfect face and form; so how could you alone have been blind to it? | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 820fe94 | Give a Martian woman a chance and death must take a back seat. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 2d02902 | and also with sufficient good judgment to appreciate that while he might enjoy the contemplation of his superiority to the masses, there was little likelihood of the masses being equally entranced by the same cause. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 0afb95a | But the wireless," asked Momulla. "What has the wireless to do with our remaining here?" "Oh yes," replied Gust, scratching his head. He was wondering if the Maori were really so ignorant as to believe the preposterous lie he was about to unload upon him. "Oh yes! You see every warship is equipped with what they call a wireless apparatus. It lets them talk to other ships hundreds of miles away, and it lets them listen to all that is said on.. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| d24600f | Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons of Barsoom, and with Earth looking down upon us out of her luminous green eye, it seemed that we were alone in the universe, and I, at least, was content that it should be so. | dejah-thoris earth john-carter night universe | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| 6e84a67 | The luminosity below me seemed confined directly to the area to be lighted; there was no diffusion of light upward or beyond the limits the lamps were designed to light. This was effected, I was told, by lamps designed upon principles resulting from ages of investigation of the properties of light waves and the laws governing them which permit Barsoomian scientists to confine and control light as we confine and control matter. The light wav.. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| a65ddd6 | I at once ordered a secret search within the city, for every Martian noble maintains a secret service of his own. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 7c1b35a | In Hastor I have paid a good price to see one of these creatures and now I found myself in a position where I should very gladly pay a good deal more not to see one, but from the noise he was making in the shaft beneath me it appeared to me that he was determined that I should have a free show and he a free meal. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 4cbd00e | In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people; they have no lawyers. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 30320ac | From a lofty perch Tarzan viewed the village of thatched huts across the intervening plantation. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 8256d5e | epicures. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 101d04c | As much as I enjoy a fight, I cannot always indulge myself, and just now I had more weighty matters to occupy my time than spilling the blood of strange warriors. | john-carter warriors | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| 8f9bc1c | If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation. | pride vocation | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| 2e080c0 | If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium. | fighter pride vocation | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| abddbe9 | Lives there upon any world such another as John Carter, Prince of Helium? Lives there another man who could fight his way back and forth across a warlike planet, facing savage beasts and hordes of savage men, for the love of a woman? | helium love man planet woman | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| 9e77d65 | Whatever I may do to serve you will be prompted solely from selfish motives, since it gives me more pleasure to serve you than not. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 2010cff | I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 23a08e4 | Like its master, it was entirely devoid of hair, but was of a dark slate color and exceeding smooth and glossy. Its belly was white, and its legs shaded from the slate of its shoulders and hips to a vivid yellow at the feet. The feet themselves were heavily padded and nailless, which fact had also contributed to the noiselessness of their approach, and, in common with a multiplicity of legs, is a characteristic feature of the fauna of Mars... | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 362a9f0 | For three days he has pursued me," she said, "through this horrible world. How I have passed through in safety I cannot guess, nor how I have always managed to outdistance him; yet I have done it, until just as you discovered me." | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 0ba506e | She realized the spell that had been upon her in the depths of that far-off jungle, but there was no spell of enchantment now in prosaic Wisconsin. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 3379ee2 | Your Paris is more dangerous than my savage jungles, Paul," concluded Tarzan," | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 1147081 | THIS IS THE HOUSE OF TARZAN, THE KILLER OF BEASTS AND MANY BLACK MEN. DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| c6c446e | resurrection | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 7ec1087 | The scene he witnessed there in the twilight depths of the African jungle was burned forever into the Englishman's brain. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| eac6485 | A thousand times rather face the wild hordes of the dead sea bottoms than meet the eyes of this beautiful young girl and tell her the thing that I must tell her. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 6278792 | P37- none of them could understand how a child could be so and backward in learning to care for itself. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 6535e4c | P43- that the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 03289cb | P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 83a3160 | P56-his reason told him that he was of a different race from his wild and hairy companions | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| c7399f1 | Seizing a cudgel from the nearest priest, he laid about him like a veritable demon as he forged his rapid way toward the altar. The hand of La had paused at the first noise of interruption. When she saw who the author of it was she went white. She had never been able to fathom the secret of the strange white man's escape from the dungeon in which she had locked him. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 920d2c1 | The lion was quite close to him now--but a few paces intervened--he crouched, and then, with a deafening roar, he sprang. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| dacb9c3 | To Jane the strange apparition of this god-like man was as wine to sick nerves. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 5c116b4 | We must not give ourselves time to think, for in that direction lies madness. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| cc69e8a | may God help the coward, for cowardice is of a surety its own punishment. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 64a2b7a | but on Barsoom no man lies; if he does not wish to speak the truth he is silent. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| ca35f49 | I could not blame them, for I knew how strong a hold a creed, however ridiculous it may be, may gain upon an otherwise intelligent people. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 19f5ca5 | I had learned from Kantos Kan the secret of opening these gates, and in another moment my twenty great fighting men stood within the doomed city of Zodanga. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 2a5a152 | sentimentalists have words: love, loyalty, friendship, enmity, jealousy, hate, a thousand others; a waste of words - one word defines them all: self-interest. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 508ae7e | whoever would offer her injury or insult in the future must figure on making a full accounting to me. I understand that you belittle all sentiments of generosity and kindliness, but I do not, and I can convince your most doughty warrior that these characteristics are not incompatible with an ability to fight. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| ef3b550 | do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later. My mind is evidently so constituted that I am subconsciously forced into the path of duty without recourse to tiresome mental processes. However that may be,.. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| c33cb89 | Enron would keep its unearned windfall, generated solely because David Duncan didn't know what he was doing. | Kurt Eichenwald | ||
| 26d75cb | I finally understood--I possessed more control than I had believed. Healthy people didn't always understand the scope of how much could be overcome. I certainly never had before I got sick. | Kurt Eichenwald | ||
| 2de8ab7 | Fastow had found someone trusting and pliable. Fastow wanted a pupet, Bowen concluded, and he already controlled Ben Glisan's strings. p.338 | Kurt Eichenwald | ||
| 58b327b | A eureka moment. It suddenly struck Mintz as so obvious. The executives entrusted with reviewing all of the LJM transactions- Causey, Buy, the board- approached their duties casually, giving everything just the onceover. They seemed to figure that somebody else was doing the tough analysis. But no one was. p.389 | Kurt Eichenwald |