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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 77c727a | No." Her eyes were like chips of stone. "He died because the Telestines have enslaved us. He died for humanity." He" | Nick Webb | ||
| 1495a0a | You can forget Proust and those stupid cakes. Beatles' songs are more potent. | Nick Webb | ||
| 5bf0bc7 | Memories seem to be stored using a variety of mysterious principles, so that you have to circle around and around, through misty clouds of association, before you can relocate some missing piece. It is easy to persuade yourself of the truth of something for which the only evidence is a strong urge to believe. Douglas | Nick Webb | ||
| ee99323 | The only dangerous thing about ignoramuses is when they vote for ignoramuses. | Nick Webb | ||
| 46f485a | missed that place. Lavish, finely decorated, | Nick Webb | ||
| fa8fd22 | that--too busy playing football. I figured someone was...." He trailed off. Isaacson glanced up. "Was what?" "Never mind. Need anything else, sir? I" | Nick Webb | ||
| 94cf634 | Humans are tribalistic hypocrites who judge their enemies by their actions but themselves by their intentions. | Nick Webb | ||
| 1e364a8 | Jack Daniels. Damn, she broke out the good stuff for him. | Nick Webb | ||
| 899711b | Wonderful. Save the world, and all it earns you is suspicion and surveillance. Par for the course for IDF, Granger thought, grimly. It was a wonder Earth still existed after not one, but two alien invasions, given the level of rampant bureaucracy and mistrust and general incompetency. But | Nick Webb | ||
| 00ccd88 | He was born for hookers and tequila. And there was a disturbing lack of both in his new bunker of an office here buried underneath a mountain outside Denver. "One" | Nick Webb | ||
| 26b15bd | An assumption is something you don't know you're making." DOUGLAS ADAMS" | Nick Webb | ||
| ef537d7 | Granger bounded towards the command console and tapped the video display showing the priority message received from CENTCOM. A zoomed-in image of Mars appeared, and a handful of grainy-looking ships snapped into orbit, decelerating at incredible speeds. After a brief battle with a handful of defending orbital patrol ships, a harsh white light appeared in the midst of the invading fleet. As the light intensified, the image started to pulse w.. | Nick Webb | ||
| 676212a | And you know why I didn't get those scans?" He looked back at the blanket-draped figure. "I was scared of dying. Terrified. Didn't want to face it. Didn't want to acknowledge it might happen--that I'd be forced to retire, confined to a hospital bed and get bed sores all over my ass. And then, boom. Nothing. No thoughts. No feeling. No existing. Just ... nothing." | Nick Webb | ||
| ecafea4 | A day of infamy. It will forever be remembered among my people as our lowest moment. Our darkest time. | Nick Webb | ||
| 9fe258e | When the danger came from within, the risk was always highest. | Nick Webb | ||
| 99fb355 | practically | Nick Webb | ||
| 2a995c9 | It was hit or miss | Nick Webb | ||
| cb227f3 | Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. Stop | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 4ddbde8 | The young man, barely out of IDF Academy himself, nodded. "Almost complete, sir. No abnormalities from the meta-space sensors, and all the EM frequencies are quiet. The meta-space discrepancy we read earlier must have been a ghost" | Nick Webb | ||
| 9fe19ec | If you get mad at someone for being right, they'll second-guess themselves constantly. If you yell at them for telling the truth, they'll just lie next time. | Nick Webb | ||
| 90b3e7f | Monsters. Almost cartoonishly evil-looking, like in the campy space movies of old. Only these looked far more sinister, more deadly, and more ... well, just obviously evil than anything he'd ever seen. Mottled green and black skin, dripping with mucus in some places and hairy in others. And ugly. Faces that bore a striking resemblance to what he imagined the offspring of a crocodile with a human baby-like face who'd had sex with a tortoise.. | Nick Webb | ||
| 8f7170a | Just because something is old, doesn't mean we need to throw it away. What kind of society have we become, what happens to our values when we say that just because something or someone has been around a hell of a long time that they've outlived their usefulness? We become a society of vacant, immature materialists. Moving from one new thing on to the next. Devaluing age and experience." He was talking about the Constitution, but he couldn't.. | Nick Webb | ||
| cc8a3b1 | When you think you're on the good side, you're capable of unthinkable evil. | Nick Webb | ||
| 60f019d | There were three things that could fundamentally change a person: time, alcohol, and managing a bureaucracy. | Nick Webb | ||
| 3e236ea | heard sudden movement, as if someone had sat up quickly. They stood up, whoever they were, and he heard soft footsteps. "Eamon? Eamon, is that really you?" Holy shit. He bolted to his feet. "Madam President?" A chuckle. "I told you to call me Barb, Eamon." With two steps he crossed the breadth of the cell and held onto the bars, straining to see around and to his left, to the other cell holding Avery. "You're alive? But ... General Norton t.. | Nick Webb | ||
| 156c896 | the evil Swarm, and the backstabbing Dolmasi, and the enigmatic Skiohra, and even the other two known alien races that humanity had never met, the Findiri and Quiassi, and Danny would make up names for the alien ships and descriptions of what the aliens looked like and how their ships-- Dammit, stop daydreaming, | Nick Webb | ||
| 66c67e0 | I don't think Ansel Adams Photoshopped any of his images," Nick said, leaning forward. "That was all his eye, his skill as an artist." | Wendy Webb | ||
| d2a033a | astronomical units | Nick Webb | ||
| eb727c0 | There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are. | Accounting | ||
| 7b50f26 | I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. | Accusation | ||
| 5ba224e | There are few phrases that annoy me more than I won't bite. The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: Smile, it can't be that bad! Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| b3a8e9e | I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication--a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head. The | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 634780c | Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them. | Accusation | ||
| 9874c21 | I'm very articulate when I wanna be. You wanna talk to me? | Ace Frehley | ||
| 6d698a0 | If we purchased the land, the zoo would be enlarged from four acres to six. At the time, it seemed like an enormous step to take. We argued back and forth. We talked, dreamed, and planned. Steve always seemed to worry about the future. "If anything happens to me, promise that you'll take care of the zoo." "Of course I will," I said. "That's easy to promise, but nothing is going to happen to you. Don't worry." "Will you still love me if a cr.. | Terri Irwin | ||
| 268d6be | Will you still love me if a croc grabs me and I lose an arm or a leg?" "Yes, of course I would still love you," I said. But there were many evenings when he would run through improbably scenarios, just checking to see how I really felt. One night he looked particularly concerned, his brow furrowed. "What's up?" I asked. "Tell me why you married me." I laughed. "Because you're hot in the cot." That broke the tension, and he laughed too. We b.. | Terri Irwin | ||
| 8e1c59d | And then you rushed off afterward because of that business with the barber in Gleam Street." "Sweeney Jones," said Vimes. "Well, he was killing people, Sybil. The best you could say is that he didn't mean to. He was just very bad at shaving--" | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3ae441a | Lucas had narrowed his lead threesome down to two competing groups: in one was Walken, Will Seltzer, and Terri Nunn, a trio Lucas described as "a little more serious, a little more realistic"; in the other, Ford, Hamill, and Fisher, a group Lucas called "a little more fun, more goofy." | Brian Jay Jones | ||
| e020091 | This is where, in a cheap novel, the couple, confronted by imminent oblivion, would suddenly make passionate love." It was a pity Nettie was now as old as she was." | Terry Jones | ||
| 86da210 | The university had a new Managing Director, whose greatest achievement had been to change his title from 'The Principal' to 'The Managing Director'. | management universities | Terry Jones | |
| 3fd55e2 | medieval monarchs was reassuringly downmarket. For example, | Terry Jones | ||
| e619188 | Trevor wondered if anyone in the outside world could even guess at the horror of working in the Planning Department | humour work | Terry Jones | |
| 065f2c3 | and to whose unsurpassable mastery of ballistics and biomass energetics we owe our third sun that now shines above us with its own famous on-off switch.... | Terry Jones | ||
| 8424a14 | We are all working from the same dog-eared script. It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters. | Gillian Flynn |