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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fc3c34b | He clambered out of the car, eager to show how quickly he could clamber out of cars, and followed at my shoulder as I strode over to the house. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| de99d47 | I tried not to look at Micky much, so he'd know straightaway he wasn't the point at issue. But a quick glance told me he was also in his forties, and as thin as a very thin stick. He wore leather backless gloves and a revolver, and probably some clothes as well, but I wasn't really paying attention to them. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 391e032 | When she'd finally managed to squeeze the TVR into a space, we discussed taking a taxi back to her flat, but decided that it was a nice enough evening and we both fancied the walk. Or rather, Ronnie fancied the walk. People like Ronnie always fancy the walk, and people like me always fancy people like Ronnie, so we each put on a stout pair of walking legs and set off. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| fd0ef2c | Even so, it was a goodish yarn, with plenty of derring-do, and I added some derring-didn' t-really-but-it-sounds-good, just to keep up her glowing opinion of me. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| a16a41e | There was a scream from somewhere. Somebody had seen the blood on Benjamin's shirt, or fallen over, or just felt like screaming, and it got the woman half on to her feet. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 902d9e2 | and as I walked, I tried to see the funny side. It wasn't easy, and I'm still not sure that I managed it properly, but it's just something I like to do when things aren't going well. Because what does it mean, to say that things aren't going well? Compared to what? You can say: compared to how things were going a couple of hours ago, or a couple of years ago. But that's not the point. If two cars are speeding towards a brick wall with no br.. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| bd80728 | a girl in a lemon-coloured shirt sat at a desk, with word processor, potted plant, mug of pencils, furry gonk, and wadges of orange paper. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 8c0f7b8 | God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before" John Owen" | Hugh Laurie | ||
| d79e5b6 | Rayner, I estimated, was ten years older than me. Which was fine. Nothing wrong with that. I have good, warm, non-arm-breaking relationships with plenty of people who are ten years older than me. People who are ten years older than me are, by and large, admirable. But Rayner was also three inches taller than me, four stones heavier, and at least eight however-you-measure-violence units more violent. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| fdd02bb | One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen" James Howell" | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 72f9ef1 | Imagine that you have to break someone's arm. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 8f52c52 | Because, what does it mean, to say that things aren't going well? Compared to what? You can say: compared to how things were going a couple of hours ago, or a couple of years ago. But that's not the point. If two cars are speeding towards a brick wall with no brakes, and one car hits the wall moments before the other, you can't spend those moments saying that the second car is much better off than the first. Death and disaster are at our s.. | true | Hugh Laurie | |
| 20e53c8 | I've been in prison, you see. Only three weeks, and only on remand, but when you've had to play chess twice a day with a monosyllabic West Ham supporter, who has 'HATE' tattooed on one hand, and 'HATE' on the other - using a set missing six pawns, all the rooks and two of the bishops - you find yourself cherishing the little things in life. Like not being in prison. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| d9b67d3 | Nos sentamos en la cocina sin decir gran cosa, ocupados en tomar el te y fumar. La mente de Ronnie estaba en otras cosas, y a ojo de buen cubero diria que habia estado llorando. Eso, o habia intentado maquillarse con un rodillo. Le ofreci un whisky pero no le intereso, asi que me servi las ultimas cuatro gotas e intente hacerlas durar. Queria concentrarme en ella, y sacar a Lucas, Barnes y Murdah de mi mente, porque se la veia alterada y se.. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 8ce4af0 | Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back. | Birds | ||
| 8a243bb | He is born naked, and falls a whining at the first. | Birth | ||
| f2ef68f | A man is born alone and dies alone. | Birth | ||
| 931b887 | It helped that any sexual impulse he might have felt was effectively neutralized by her drinking. After the first hour of any evening, she was not a pleasant person to be around. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 45ba2aa | age was a truly cumulative thing, bringing a degree of wisdom to life. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 9aa1484 | purpose; parents being tolerant or exasperated | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| ffb134f | Always trust in proven survivors. | trust | Peter F. Hamilton | |
| 25f0cc8 | The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 4b5c7f2 | Like the original concept, the stormrider had rectangular blades, sixteen of them radiating out from the hub, each one a flat lattice of struts twenty-five kilometers long, made from the toughest steelsilicon fibers the Commonwealth knew how to manufacture. Twenty-three kilometers of them were covered by an ultra-thin silvered foil, giving a total surface area of over one thousand eight hundred square kilometers for the solar wind to impact.. | science-fiction stormrider | Peter F. Hamilton | |
| 1710dfe | I don't understand why you need verbal trickery to ensnare a temporary mate," Tochee said. "Are you not attracted to each other by what you are?" | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| f518062 | Back in the day, surplus harvests or an excess of rare minerals had been quietly shoved out into oblivion, assisting the market price, reaping bigger profits for the financial sectors at the expense of the consumer. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 3a0504f | contumacy. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| b073f7c | Ozzie hurriedly loaded in restrictions that would stop the boy wading through porn all night long-- | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 694707d | Science your way out of this. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 7c74afe | Universal law: data wants to be free. | free | Peter F. Hamilton | |
| 88c6f76 | We all have a bad morning after at some point in our lives. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 216fa5f | Greetings, human. We come in peace. Take me to your leader so I may serve you.' 'What?' 'Fried or baked?' 'Uh--?' 'Serve, get it? That's a first-contact joke. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| d5ee312 | handed it over | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 1f43163 | Hope doesn't die just because a life is lost, or even a million lives. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 868a77e | It's only going to take another week of this and we're going to have the mother of all humanitarian crises on our hands. The Independencies are already living on food stocks that aren't going to last long. The algaepaddies can't survive prolonged cooling, which is going to eliminate ten percent of GE's bioil supply. Most of Highcastle is already camped out by the gateway demanding to return. And nobody is making any decisions, certainly not.. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 74dbe7d | Code could do anything. Code could save the world. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 820d854 | Vance closed the link and stamped off to biolab-1, too furious to say anything more. He didn't even ask the Lord for wisdom and guidance, which was remiss of him, but the Lord would understand the frailty of human reaction in the face of such outrageous provocation. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 571c9ea | There it was, plain and beautifully simple, five generations down the line. :) | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 58e64d4 | careering | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 9d186dd | Astronauts got laid . | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 9d3b36e | And it is a terrible irony that our very liberalism allows such danger to flourish. There has to be a time when we say: No more. And thanks to Connexion, that time has now come. As Edmund Burke said--' 'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,' Yuri quoted. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 7751a32 | This act is a direct result of the oppression, both political and economic, imposed by our government. You crush hope. You destroy opportunity. You eradicate dignity. You do all that so you maintain your filthy bigoted anti-democratic society. You leave the rest of us no choice. We are not allowed to protest. Any complaint sees you marked down for life as a troublemaker.........It's wealth. the method by which it maintains control? I tell y.. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 4bf3223 | I'm impressed. That is one big mother of a tax office.' 'They say that the Captain has an agreement with the Skylords, that if you haven't settled your taxes when you seek Guidance, the Skylords will take you to Uracus instead of Giu.'" )" | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| eef4327 | careered | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| f574f4c | People will look at you, what you're doing, rewriting the regiment rule book, and they'll want to do the same for themselves. That's when you'll start to run into resistance. That's where the politics begins. And that's the dirtiest fight there is. | Peter F. Hamilton |