Quotes from English Language Authors

Quotes from English Language Authors

1) S.F.Aaron

2) Douglas Adams

3) Stephen Baxter

4) Le Carré

5) Tom Clancy

6) Colleen McCullough

7) Len Deighton

8) Philip K. Dick

9) John Grisham

10) J.R.Tolkien

It's me. May be. Artwork by Elena

11) In a dangerous world, humility made for longevity.

Stephen Baxter, Evolution

I’m not made for perilous quests.

“I should not shout, if I were you”, said Merry. “It does more harm than good.”

Is it only the trees that are dangerous?

It’s the job that ‘s never started as takes longest to finish

J.R.Tolkien

“What can I do for you, gentlemen?” said THE porter.

“Get out of my way1” said Huth.

You spend too much time listening to what people say. That’s your trouble.

Len Deighton SS-GB

She’d read the introduction and she’d read the conclusion. Most of the two hundred pages in between has gone untouched.

He’d never seen her cry, the one exception being at the end of a movie he’d hated.

John Grisham The runaway jury

“What’s that got to do with it? He said to find a volunteer, you heard him.”

“Well, I’m not the man you want!” I snapped.

Tiny looked at me with narrowed eyes. “You refusing to obey orders?”

“I’m refusing to volunteer,” I said.

There was a moment’s pause. Tiny tried again. “I’m ordering you to volunteer,” he told me.

The breech mechanism was blocked by a bullet, and since the special tool for removing such obstacles had long ago been lost, stolen or sold, we had to dig it out ourselves

Sven Hassel The General

Baseball and swimming and loafing around are all you think about. But leave it to the girls;

Aaron, S. F. Radio Boys Cronies

There is no better way to keep a secret than to use another secret to conceal it.

Tom Clancy The cardinal of the Kremlin

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

“Don’t Panic. It’s the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody’s said to me all day.”

“Hi,” he said to a small knot of creatures from the press who were standing nearby wishing that he would stop saying Hi and get on with the quotes. He grinned at them particularly because he knew that in a few moments he would be giving them one hell of a quote.

Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

An utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

“And I write novels!” chimed in the other cop. “Though I haven’t had any of them published yet, so I better warn you, I’m in a meeeean mood!”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

1) Now we are going to address ourselves to this strange object called a pencil.

If you like painting watercolors, why don’t you try the music too?

2) Nothing exists without a context

Le Carré The Secret Pilgrim (1) Our game (2)

“Odysseys, you have my permission to use any means you can devise to get us inside the walls of Troy.” – “Starvation,” he said promptly. “Short of starvation” Agamemnon said.

Colleen McCullough The son of Troy

The instruction sheets listed rows of possible defects, with neat boxes by each; a punch-stick was included to indicate the particular deficiency of the product. “What’ll I check?” Morrison asked. “Contaminated? Bacterial? Sour? Rancid? Incorrectly labeled? Broken? Crushed? Cracked? Bent? Soiled?”

‘The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases.

“For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat? the second by the question Why do we eat? and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?”

Philip K. Dick Autofac

Let us seize power now, and let us keep that power no matter what means we must employ to do so.

Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, to Ernst Thaelmann, January 3, 1932.

Human Litterature is a Galaxy of Knowledge. Illustration by Elena.