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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 67b0ea6 | Yes, I am aware of the enticements required to obtain them," Kang replied with distaste. "I believe the Russians could teach the West a thing or two about capitalistic extortion." | Clive Cussler | ||
| 0ac7770 | He opened the door, and his smile faded as his eyes went to the DUNKIN' DONUTS emblazoned on the flat cardboard box in Paul's hands. Perlmutter recoiled like a vampire being offered garlic, and would have fled into the house if Trout had not lifted the box's lid. | Clive Cussler | ||
| 12acdb3 | If his submarine were caught on the surface in broad daylight, the mission to free Napoleon Bonaparte from exile would be over before it began. Delacroix lowered his spyglass and called down through the hatch. "Prepare to dive the boat!" Three men quickly lowered the sail in the gusting wind. With the bright sun at his back, Delacroix took one last look at the approaching frigate before ducking below and closing the copper hatch. His nostri.. | Clive Cussler | ||
| cbf1ba4 | We've been through all this a thousand times. I won't subject myself to the indignities of pregnancy. I won't swish crap-laden diapers around in a toilet bowl ten times a day. Let someone else populate the earth. I'm not about to split off my soul, like some damned amoeba. | Clive Cussler | ||
| ed0ed60 | Hold on,' he shouted to the woman, realizing even as he spoke that she wasn't holding anything at all, but guessing that 'hang in there' would have had a terrible ring to it. | hold there | Clive Cussler | |
| 26f082d | Brendan shuddered. "Honestly? I'm not sure I can say Dirk without laughing. A less Dirk-like person could not exist. Who named you? Clive Cussler? Dirk Melovitch." | Z.A. Maxfield | ||
| 3cdda83 | Joe had the distinct impression they were getting in deeper than they expected with each turn, almost as if they'd hooked a small fish that had been eaten by a larger fish and was being chased by a giant shark. | Clive Cussler | ||
| d34f526 | The captain moniker derived from a tired blue hat he wore on his head. It was the classic captain's hat favored by rich yachtsmen, sporting crossed gold anchors on its prow. Dahlgren's hat, however, looked like it had been run over by an M-1 tank. | Clive Cussler | ||
| df2afc6 | Unfortunately we have to remember we're scientists, not writers of popular semifictional archaeological claptrap. | Clive Cussler | ||
| 00c7bb6 | Josh Thomas was sitting in Egan's study, reading a chemical analysis journal, when he froze in fright. The rug in the center of the room suddenly rose from the floor as if a ghost were inside and then flew aside. A trapdoor beneath swung open and Pitt's head popped up like a jack-in-the-box. "Sorry to intrude," said Pitt with a cheery smile. "But I just happened to be passing by." | Clive Cussler | ||
| 7c56cd9 | I know you're the only pistol champion we have, but I'd rather they no see enough of you to hit. You're also the only wife I have... | fargo humor wife | Clive Cussler | |
| 36a9291 | Iceland, the land of frost and fire, rugged glaciers and smoldering volcanoes, | Clive Cussler | ||
| 519a554 | Relentless Savage is a great read! Dave Edlund's writing is on par with Clive Cussler and David Baldacci. Can't wait for the next one! | Dave Edlund | ||
| 22c318e | In 1892, mine owner L. L. Nunn had hired the electrical wizard Nikola Tesla to build the world's first alternating-current power | Clive Cussler | ||
| fbda817 | A season with the herd and you'll be riding like an arat," Noyon said, referring to the local horsemen. "A season in that saddle and I'd be ready for traction," Giordino grumbled." -- | Clive Cussler | ||
| 643c14e | Great escape read, yet always come back again and again | Clive Cussler | ||
| 2859be0 | Two unarmed men against six loaded for bear. We need to even the odds." "Got a plan?" asked Giordino. "I certainly do." Giordino gave the little man with the academic, nerdy look a bemused stare. "Is it evil, rotten, and sneaky?" Gunn nodded, with an impish grin. "All that, and more." THE" | Clive Cussler | ||
| fd102c8 | As they exited the conference room, Summer tugged at Dirk's elbow. "So what did the data from Perlmutter cost you?" she chided, knowing the gourmet historian's penchant for culinary blackmail. "Nothing much. Just a jar of pickled sea urchins and an eighty-year-old bottle of sake." "You found those in Washington, D.C.?" Dirk gave his sister a pleading look of helplessness. "Well," she laughed, "we do have six more hours in port." | Clive Cussler | ||
| e0a2923 | Now, he thought, a satanic grin on his lips, I'll show you an Immelmann. He threw the aircraft into a half loop and then snapped it over in a half roll, heading on a direct course toward the helicopter. "Write your will, sucker!" he shouted, his voice drowned out by the rush of wind and the roar of the engine's exhaust. "Here comes the Red Baron." | Clive Cussler | ||
| 752d47b | You can't expect a child not to become a product of his environment. If you're a drinker, you'll raise a drunk. If you're a single mother, traipsing men in and out of your bedroom in front of your girl child - mark my words, in time she'll claim a corner and charge money for what you gave away for free. Kings and queens raise princes and princesses. That's just the way it is. | Bernice L. McFadden | ||
| a4fc0c3 | Some were encased in gold leaf hammered to an incredible thinness. We were supposed to eat these, gold and all. Some were still in their shells, and when cracked open these proved to contain the sort of party favors esteemed by wealthy hosts: perfumes, pearls, gems, golden chains, and so forth. While the ladies made delighted sounds I tried to figure out how they had gotten those items inside the shells, but to no avail. I could see no hole.. | John Maddox Roberts | ||
| 1f5a6da | And so, forbidden by a Roman official and warned by a slave, I went forth at dusk to meet with a high-class Greek prostitute. | John Maddox Roberts | ||
| 54db15a | About seven hundred years ago, a pack of bandits arrived in central Italy, led by two brothers named Romulus and Remus. They despoiled the nearby peoples of land and women and set up their own little bandit state. At some point, Romulus established a fine old Roman tradition by murdering his brother. Had it been the other way around, I suppose we might now be living in a city named Reme. | John Maddox Roberts | ||
| 6887841 | At least, when the great Temple of Jupiter had burned twenty years before, Sulla had had the good taste to restore it to its original design and condition. They don't make tyrants like Sulla anymore. | John Maddox Roberts | ||
| a5612b4 | One forced to live in surroundings that might have been devised by Plato must seek relief and an outlet for the human urges despised by philosophers. Wickedness and debauchery may not be the only answers, but they are certainly the ones with the widest appeal. | John Maddox Roberts | ||
| 79f359f | Guns were the symbols of judgment and power, so that those who were expected to exercise power and judgment had to wear them and be proficient in their use. | Sean McMullen | ||
| 8546873 | The first step toward understanding is of course argument. | Leonard Wibberley | ||
| e205af1 | There are worse things than eating the dead, my dear fellow. Far worse things. There is, for instance, making a huge profit out of their funeral, which is the normal custom in the civilized world. | humorous-quotes religion satire | Leonard Wibberley | |
| 4acae5a | World opinion, though sharply divided on nuclear tests and the risk of atmospheric pollution, could congratulate itself on being united in its opposition to cannibalism. No country in the world was prepared to support the custom of eating the dead, though the right of governments to kill people, individually or by hundreds of thousands, was not questioned for a moment. | satire satirical-humor satirical-humor-quotes | Leonard Wibberley | |
| 3308fc0 | scientists are using advanced genomic theories and technologies to create a new racial science that claims to divide the human species into natural groups without the taint of racism. | Dorothy Roberts | ||
| 9b097a2 | Three central themes, then, run through the chapters of this book. The first is that regulating Black women's reproductive decisions had been a central aspect of racial oppression in America. | Dorothy Roberts | ||
| 5f7b60b | Reviewing the history of official racial classifications reminds us that these categories are not natural--and neither are the institutional inequities that race undergirds. | Dorothy Roberts | ||
| 032cf67 | This construct of the licentious temptress served to justify white men's sexual abuse of Black women. The stereotype of Black women as sexually promiscuous also defined them as bad mothers. The | Dorothy Roberts | ||
| 28e6134 | Even after Emancipation, political and economic conditions forced many Black mothers to earn a living outside the home.31 At the turn of the century nearly all Black women worked long days as sharecroppers, laundresses, or domestic servants in white people's homes. | Dorothy Roberts | ||
| 71561c5 | The story of control of Black reproduction begins with the experiences of slave women like Rose Williams. Black procreation helped to sustain slavery, giving slave masters an economic incentive to govern Black women's reproductive lives. | Dorothy Roberts | ||
| d77d056 | Race persists because it continues to be politically useful. | Dorothy Roberts | ||
| 0ab1851 | was cheaper in the long run to go first class. | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| 331ed1e | the true test of another man's intelligence is how much he agrees with you? | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| 8598ef0 | Find capable subordinates, give them a clear mission, and then get out of their way and let them do their jobs. | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| eee632b | As far as he was concerned, there were only two kinds of soldiers. There were those who lost their heads at the sound of hostile fire, and those who didn't. The warriors and the chair-borne. | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| acc759e | The first duty of an officer--whether a lieutenant or a captain or the Commander in Chief--is to the enlisted men. That was a basic principle of command. He could not justify not calling up the best qualified officers simply because they had already done their duty. They were needed again. They could save some lives. It was a dirty goddamned trick on them, but that's the way it was going to have to be. | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| 5d40b1b | mellifluous | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| 2ea71b6 | was, while inarguably patriotic, almost | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| f704fdf | The first duty of an officer--whether a lieutenant or a captain or the Commander in Chief--is to the enlisted men. That was a basic principle of command. He could not justify not calling up | W.E.B. Griffin |