Douglas Preston Quotes
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Douglas Preston Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box.
I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back.
I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power to languauge
Words, it gave a rather convincing impression of trying to elude pursuit. The dry, faintly ironic delivery
Not only eating Lieutenant, but slobbering over the food as well. Clearly, he, she, or it has no manners.
accomplices. This helped assure that the crowd would now move on to the next stage of the sound-and-light show - which
Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.
Human beings are disgustingly predictable, and this is as true of psychopaths as it is of grandmothers.
To put that statistic into personal terms, make a list of the nineteen people closest to you: All but one will die. (This
My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.
I like your custom 1911," the man said, glancing at Pendergast's weapon. "Les Baer Thunder Ranch Special? Nice-looking piece.
I have found that liars in the end communicate more truth than do truth tellers." "How's that?" "Because truth is the safest lie.
guard posts and triple fencing had been bolstered by cutting-edge instrumentation, including laser-beam "lattices
You cannot stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion.
There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.
The point of a cruise ship is the cruise itself. But an ocean liner's job is to transport people on a schedule. The
Jennie confirmed my suspicions that television advertising is directed mainly at people with the iq of a pongid
Criticism is a profession which allows one a certain license to be vicious outside the bounds of normal civilized behavior.
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You just put your boot so far up his ass, he'll have to eat his dinner with a shoehorn." "I can always count on you for a suitable bon mot.
As I get older, Vincent, I have come to prefer a quiet evening at home to a bracing exchange of gunfire in the dark.
The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology.
The third board popped off. The opening was now big enough to squeeze through. The dogs in town were barking hysterically.
He had reached an age where he found the best way to deal with unpleasantness was to pretend it didn't exist.
I don't know jack about wine, sorry." "You should learn. It is one of the true and ancient pleasures that make human existence tolerable.
anyway, the money was great, but the corporate world just wasn't to my liking. i guess i'm not a team player--or an ass-kisser.
Launches the reader into a story of science and ancient mystery that will blow your mind: [From New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston]
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
There is a mountain range behind the town, called the Sierra de Sangre de Cristo. It means the 'Blood of Christ Mountains' in Spanish.
The Monster's crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked.
Trying to fulfill earthly desires was like carrying water to the sea; a never- ending task, and an ultimately useless one.
if the count of monte cristo could escape the chateau d'if, william smithback could escape from river oaks
D'Agosta had long ago learned, when working with Pendergast, to never get caught without two things: a gun and a flashlight.
He had done the right thing and that was what counted. That was the best you could do in life. How others took it was beyond his control.