Thunderball Novel Quotes & Sayings

Pleasure from the senses seems like nectar at first, but it is bitter as poison in the end. — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

So you're like a ... an amateur sleuth?"
"God no. I'm more like the hapless guys in those film-noir flicks we used to watch. I keep getting tangled up in bizarro events."
"Oh yes?" His eyes lit with enthusiasm. I was speaking his language now. "Guy Pearce in L.A. Confidential or William Hurt in Body Heat?"
"I was thinking more like Woody Allen in Play It Again, Sam. — Josh Lanyon

This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered. — Jim McKelvey

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me. — Paulo Coelho

A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them ...
A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing ... — Mary Oliver

In Haiti, untitled rural and urban real estate holdings are together worth some 5.2 billion. To put that sum in context, it is four times the total of all the assets of all the legally operating companies in Haiti, nine times the value of all assets owned by the government, and 158 times the value of all foreign direct investment in Haiti's recorded history to 1995. — Hernando De Soto

Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real. — Van Morrison

Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable. — Geoffrey Wolff

Some things are private. Some things needed to be said, even when the person who needed to hear them couldn't hear anything. Ever again. — Rachel Vincent

I just don't get boys; I don't really get men. — Cheryl Cole

The seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith
teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism. — William J. Clinton

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living. — Alvin Dark

Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history. — Edward Snowden

When do we start?" "You are not coming." "Then you are not going," said I. "I give you my word of honour - and I never broke it in my life - that I will take a cab straight to the police-station and give you away, unless you let me share this adventure with you." "You can't help me." "How do you know that? You can't tell what may happen. Anyway, my resolution is taken. Other people besides you have self-respect, and even reputations. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you. — Bobby Knight