Max Allan Collins Quotes & Sayings

People are very quick to ridicule others for showing fear. But we rarely know the secret springboards behind human action. The man who shows great fear today may be tomorrow's hero. Who are we to judge? — Max Allan Collins

Evelyn: [drunk] You're wondering, 'What is a place like me doing in a girl like this?'
Rick: Yeah, something like that. — Max Allan Collins

Zigzag... don't bunch up. Weave like a drunk on New Year's... Got it? — Max Allan Collins

for work these days; nobody had been hired in janitorial — Max Allan Collins

She was a big blonde woman with more curves than the highway out front and just the right number of hills and valleys. — Max Allan Collins

Inside my head, I shit my pants. — Max Allan Collins

Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much, my wife is even gonna recognize me whenever it is I get back to her, and how I'll ever be able to, tell about days like today. Ahh, Ryan. I don't know anything about Ryan, I don't care. The man means nothing to me; he's just a name. But if, you know, if going to Remal, and finding him so he can go home, if that earns me the right to get back to my wife, well then, then that's my mission. — Max Allan Collins

Rick: Can you swim?
Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it.
Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust me. It calls for it. — Max Allan Collins

Evelyn: Look, I ... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am.
Rick: And what is that?
Evelyn: I ... am a librarian.
The Mummy (1999) — Max Allan Collins

Everyone needs help. That's the human condition. — Max Allan Collins

Eyes Only is more than just a voice and eyes on some cable hack ... it's more like a network. People who help Eyes Only, they're all loyal, and they don't talk to anybody about anything, if you're not one of them. — Max Allan Collins

Hi my name's Quarry. I'm in town to blow your favorite professor's brains out. Can you tell me whether you're planning to stop by his place this afternoon, so I can pick a time when I wouldn't have to spray your fucking brains against the wall, too? Thanks! — Max Allan Collins

She couldn't stop herself from grinning back at — Max Allan Collins

Beware how you take hope from another human being. - Oliver Wendell Holms Jr., — Max Allan Collins

If you're turned away from one road, there's always another
filled with risk but also adventure. Roads less taken are always the most rewarding ones. — Max Allan Collins

I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. - Earl Warren — Max Allan Collins

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do. Potter Stewart, — Max Allan Collins

The goddamn kid just sat there and out of the blue thrust his middle finger in the air and waved it at Jon with a brazen defiance only ten-year-olds and Nazis can muster. — Max Allan Collins

Absurdly, dead fish by the hundreds were washing ashore, their peaceful world disrupted by man's squabble. — Max Allan Collins

To get what you want, stop doing what isn't working. - Earl Warren — Max Allan Collins