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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0e6f71f | Don't you love it when a plan comes together?" Carl" | David Morrell | ||
| 6f46ae5 | A cool head. That's the secret to getting along in life, gentlemen. You | David Morrell | ||
| 76ee800 | Cavanaugh believed that the term "martial arts" was a self-contradiction. When it came to combat, there was nothing artistic, nothing smooth and graceful about it." | David Morrell | ||
| da2edb4 | Fine motor skills, which use dexterity and hand/eye coordination to perform precise movements (accurate shooting, for example) disintegrate at 115 heartbeats per minute. Complex motor skills, which help muscle groups perform a series of blunt movements (kicks and punches, for example) disintegrate at 145 heartbeats per minute. But most hand-to-hand combat causes the heart to surge to 200 beats per minute. In that frenzy of adrenaline, the c.. | David Morrell | ||
| 8267cfd | Watch tonight's episode. Someone might die. | David Morrell | ||
| 13502c9 | the anxiety of the unpredictable came only when you dealt with amateurs | David Morrell | ||
| 20a307e | I fear I am losing my mind. I do not mean "losing my grasp of reality." I know perfectly well what is happening. But I am powerless to prevent the outcome. Each day, I have less strength of mind to resist." -- | David Morrell | ||
| 4a60713 | delegations | David Morrell | ||
| ea2ec56 | always wanted to live with a man who looks like a boxer. | David Morrell | ||
| 1a4f395 | A friend is somebody who accepts your faults, who's there for you always, even when you're not your best, somebody who'll do anything for you, somebody you can count on totally, just as a friend can count on you. It's the most powerful relationship there is. Most | David Morrell | ||
| 808eb6b | I find an empty page friendlier than speaking to another person. | David Morrell | ||
| f710644 | i've heard this called st. peter's square," arlene said. "but it isn't square. it's oval." | david morrell | ||
| e3f8680 | blackmail never ended. it only bought time. but time was in limited supply. it would last only as long as his money did. | David Morrell | ||
| 5b06f41 | don't expect a magic formula that'll make books fall out of your head and automatically give you a wide readership. | David Morrell | ||
| 268be05 | Lies were told to start the war. Lies were told to cover mistakes. The Pentagon wouldn't fully commit to special-operations units, which meant that conventional tactics were used against guerrilla forces. That's a losing strategy. Good men died because of that. Other good men are still being held captive because of it. And Rambo--well, if winning now means he has to die as well, he'll die. No fear. No regrets. That more than anything is wha.. | David Morrell | ||
| fc48386 | Anybody who tries to pass me will have a headache. | David Morrell | ||
| 0cb9e60 | make sure you wore gloves when you loaded the magazines so there won't be any prints on the ejected cartridges. Then | David Morrell | ||
| 9dfed02 | There is no such thing as forgetting," he murmured." | David Morrell | ||
| 05611c4 | Solo hay ahora un gran silencio. Un silencio que es tan insoportable como el peor de los escandalos; un gran silencio y una tiniebla sin orden. Ando, trato de andar, y nada toco; solo el vacio; el silencio y la gran oscuridad. Aprieto aun mas los ojos y de entre lo negro veo sombras menos negras; algo se mueve; diferencias de oscuridades. Suelto los parpados; poco a poco lo negro se aclara; las sombras van separandose. Ya esta aqui el contr.. | Reinaldo Arenas | ||
| 783882b | satan is a christian creation and you can keep him, thank you! | Douglas Preston Lincoln Child | ||
| e303f13 | Are you surprised? He doesn't believe in any power greater than himself. And we all know he's God-like anyway--in his own mind, at least. | Douglas Preston | ||
| c8b3916 | But I also know this anomaly is something you won't let drop until you get to the bottom of it. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 0f9739d | He also said you never really knew what kind of side effects might pop up until at least ten thousand people had taken a drug, | Douglas Preston | ||
| dc68da9 | El moribundo frente maritimo al final habia sucumbido al perverso huracan Yankee Clipper de 1938. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 74fe23b | parasitology is one of the lower-paying of all the medical specialties. To go into the field, you have to truly care about helping people. | Douglas Preston | ||
| bbdc1c5 | Leishmaniasis has a long and terrible history with human beings, stretching back as far as human records exist and causing suffering and death for thousands of years. | Douglas Preston | ||
| e1688cf | We have to wonder why the kings and nobles failed to recognize and solve these seemingly obvious problems undermining their society. Their attention was evidently focused on their short-term concerns of enriching themselves, waging wars, erecting monuments, competing with each other, and extracting enough food from the peasants to support all those activities." (If this sounds familiar, I would note that archaeology is thick with cautionary.. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 0071849 | No Trespassing Violators Will Be Prosecuted With the Utmost Rigor of the Law | Douglas Preston | ||
| c5f6ca7 | antimacassars | Douglas Preston | ||
| 837b03e | It's not like Father to be late, | Douglas Preston | ||
| b42f023 | I wish you'd told me I was going to be piloting a Yellow Submarine." "To what end? It would only have worried you. These DSVs are idiotproof." | Douglas Preston | ||
| 49a5617 | Carpe diem. ?Quien sabe lo que nos traera el manana? | Douglas Preston | ||
| f45c267 | chip, a credit card, a small hypodermic needle and syringe, some duct tape, and a tiny capsule of brown liquid. Pocketing the items, he exited the bathroom and darted down the hall to guard station 7. Just as Glinn had predicted: of the five guards on duty, four had responded to the escape call, leaving the lone commanding guard at the console, surrounded by a wall of live video feeds. The man was shouting orders into a microphone and punch.. | Douglas Preston | ||
| a019d73 | I have my books. I don't live in the actual world. I am imperturbable. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 757e520 | The Lost City of the Monkey God is a throwback to the golden age of adventure archaeology, the thrilling true story of a group of explorers penetrating one of the toughest jungles on earth in search of a lost city...and finding it. Preston is a terrific writer of both non-fiction books and bestselling novels and makes you feel the dark heart of this lost Honduran wilderness." --John Sandford, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York T.. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 40351c2 | in our culture, women can do anything a man can. and vice versa." don alfonso's eyebrows shot up. "i do not believe it." "it's true," sally said defiantly. "in America, the women hunt while the men have babies?" | gender-equality metaphor | Douglas Preston | |
| 4f068e4 | the partition was rolled up for ventilation, and she was lying in her hammock reading one of the books Vernon had brought, a thriller called utopia. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 093cf30 | The little town of Stormhaven struggled up the hill, narrow clapboard houses following a zigzag of cobblestone lanes. | Douglas Preston Lincoln Child | ||
| 6657c13 | on for the rest of my life." That evening, Virgilio joined us at dinner. I asked him about the clear-cutting that checkerboarded the jungle we had flown over. He was shocked and concerned by what he'd seen. He said we had found the site in the nick of time, before deforestation and" | Douglas Preston | ||
| c8b12d0 | there was no reason why having a high iq would somehow protect you from the vicissitudes of life | douglas preston | ||
| 835d76f | Far more than the casual recreation we think of when it comes to games of skill in Mesoamerican cultures the ball game was a sacred ritual that reenacted the struggle between the forces of good and evil. It might also have been a way for groups to avoid warfare by solving conflicts through a match instead, one that occasionally ended with human sacrifice... | Douglas Preston | ||
| 69851bf | a walther ppk. you're a james bond fan, i imagine.... | Douglas Preston Lincoln Child | ||
| 2366559 | Dr. Kelly, are you familiar with the term, 'cabinet of curiosities'?" Nora wondered at the man's ability to pile on non sequiturs. "Wasn't it a kind of natural history collection?" "Precisely. It was the precursor to the natural history museum. Many" | Douglas Preston | ||
| 7f71289 | quincunx, | Douglas Preston |