Clive Cussler Quotes & Sayings

She was a Privately funded spy ship owned by the corporation and headed by Juan Cabtillo. The Oregon was his brain child and his one true love. — Clive Cussler

Take away the clothes of the greatest living man, his father once told him, and you behold a very embarrassed, naked and defenseless animal. — Clive Cussler

Dangerous things, books."
"Look what it did to your brain. — Clive Cussler

I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis ... Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away. — Clive Cussler

A grief-stricken man is driven to defy the gods. — Clive Cussler

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

A man accepts the thankless burden of responsibility. We women do not. To us, life is a game we play one day at a time. — Clive Cussler

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My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies. — Clive Cussler

Finally, slowly, like a newly lighted oil lamp gathering kerosene up into its wick, Wally's face began to glow. He turned to Mack Fulton. "Mack, you know what's on my mind? — Clive Cussler

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. — Clive Cussler

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt. — Clive Cussler

Unfortunately we have to remember we're scientists, not writers of popular semifictional archaeological claptrap. — Clive Cussler

Hitting the first molecules of the upper atmosphere created friction that merely warmed the rod. The lower it fell, the more the heat built, until the entire length of the rod glowed red then yellow, and, finally, a brilliant white. — Clive Cussler

I'm all right, she murmured. Talan — Clive Cussler

When power is up for grabs," Pitt said, "the first casualty is often liberty. — Clive Cussler

She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would put the kids to bed, and then I had nothing to do and nobody to talk to, so I would write. — Clive Cussler

Deep, choking sobs that sounded like his soul was being torn apart. He clutched at his father and Max took his in his arms. "I am so sorry dad." Kyle sobbed. "And I forgive you because that is what fahters do" said Max — Clive Cussler

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

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 ... "
"You're so sweet.'
" ... at the moment. — Clive Cussler

Mohammad, left a lot to be desired. — Clive Cussler

Giordino ... simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic and discover a beautiful girl? — Clive Cussler

Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off. — Clive Cussler

To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering. — Clive Cussler

Americans have an annoying habit of accomplishing what they set out to do. — Clive Cussler

While like most men, Sam prided himself on being equipped with a supernatural internal compass that kept him from ever being lost, he'd also learned to concede those rare times when that compass seemed to be temporary disrepair. — Clive Cussler

To create something you want to sell, you first study and research the market, then you develop the product to the best of your ability. — Clive Cussler

I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again. — Clive Cussler

Narwhal with a soft whine of the impellers. All of their lights were focused on the seafloor. — Clive Cussler

Time is a thief. It steals our memory, our hopes, and our strength, leaving only the sense there's never enough of it. — Clive Cussler

My daddy always said, 'Luck never gives, it lends, — Clive Cussler

Though neither of them had ever called their meeting a case of love at first sight, they'd both agreed it had certainly been a case of pretty damned sure at first hour. — Clive Cussler

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

Actually, Herbert-Miller. But call me Grace. Come in, please. — Clive Cussler

Urquhart could somehow feel the glow on his skin as the hairs on his arms raised up and the thick pelt of man fur that covered his torso and back prickled as if the legs of a thousand insects were crawling on his body. — Clive Cussler