Best Pendergast Quotes

#1. Already up to his waist in the quaking bog, Pendergast stopped struggling and stared up at his assassin. The icy glitter in the pale gray eyes spoke more eloquently of his hatred and despair than any words he might have spoken, and it shook Esterhazy to the core.

Douglas Preston

#2. There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.

Douglas Preston

#3. God would not allow Adam and Eve to eat of the forbidden tree, even though it was good for food, pleasant to the eye and to be desired to make one wise (Gen. 3).

Ralph Venning

#4. The stereotypical Pacific Northwest weather hadn't inspired me to bring an umbrella; the precipitation wasn't heavy enough to dampen my clothing. Besides, there was no quicker way to say "I'm not from around here" than to carry an umbrella.

Michael W. Anderson

#5. The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The Self is present as Pure Presence, not as everlasting duration, a rather horrible notion.

Ken Wilber

#6. Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable.

Douglas Preston

#7. Life's a quest - A long search for something we can't name; something we want and usually can't get. We don't know precisely what it is - all we know is that we don't get it. What a fellow needs is something in which he can lose himself when everything else is a mess.

Peter Ruber

#8. Not only eating Lieutenant, but slobbering over the food as well. Clearly, he, she, or it has no manners.

Douglas Preston

#9. In short, Beauty Smith was a monstrosity, and the blame of it lay elsewhere. He was not responsible. The clay of him had been moulded in the making.

Jack London

#10. I left her wallpapering her much-loved, much-tended little corner of hell.

Joanna Russ

#11. What a rush you're in to show me the last dregs of your vile soul!

Giacomo Puccini

#12. There was a pause while Pendergast considered this. I prefer hypocrisy to poverty.

Douglas Preston

#13. Growing up in the Midwest, I was very close to my maternal grandmother, who, as a young widow running a small business in 1920s Kansas City, had known firsthand the old Pendergast regime and its classic combine of politics and organized crime.

Roger Morris

#14. D'Agosta had long ago learned, when working with Pendergast, to never get caught without two things: a gun and a flashlight.

Douglas Preston

#15. 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

Douglas Preston

#16. Spaces again. I guess one citation wasn't enough." Pendergast pulled out the previous ticket. "You mean this?" "That's right." Pendergast neatly tore it in half and tucked the pieces back into his pocket. The chief frowned.

Douglas Preston

#17. On the rare occasions when my family talked about business, the subject was Kansas City's Boss Pendergast and his potential for muscling my dad's small gravel-and-sand operation.

Carol Loomis

#18. As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.

Tony Evans

#19. There is a mountain range behind the town, called the Sierra de Sangre de Cristo. It means the 'Blood of Christ Mountains' in Spanish.

Douglas Preston

#20. Hey, Margo, this looks like a big job. Why don't you send out for pizza? The best place in town is Antonio's. I recommend the green chili and pepperoni. Shall I fax the order now?

Douglas Preston

#21. If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles.

Carl Sagan

#22. He found Pendergast's cool gaze on him, and he fidgeted. He'd forgotten about those eyes. They made you feel like you had just been stripped of your secrets.

Douglas Preston

#23. I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Henry Fielding

#24. I like your custom 1911," the man said, glancing at Pendergast's weapon. "Les Baer Thunder Ranch Special? Nice-looking piece.

Douglas Preston

#25. I'll go walking in circles
While doubting the very ground beneath me
Trying to show unquestioning faith in everything

David Sylvian

#26. That's not making love; it's getting laid. There's a world of difference between the two. Settling for less is cheating yourself."
He looked at her steadily. "It's worth the wait.

Kat Attalla

#27. We haven't had any more rain since it stopped raining.

Harry Carpenter

#28. Know thy neighbor as thyself. That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself...this is the meaning of the word LOVE.

Pearl S. Buck

#29. Hezekiah Pendergast," Constance continued, "was the great-great-grandfather of Aloysius - and a first-rate mountebank. He began his career as a snake-oil salesman for traveling medicine shows and, over time, devised his own 'medicine': Hezekiah's Compound Elixir and Glandular Restorative.

Douglas Preston

#30. I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

Claudia Christian

#31. Mrs. Trask turned to him. When Mr. Pendergast asks for something, we do not say no.

Douglas Preston

#32. It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

Douglas Preston

#33. To one side, a vintage Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, polished to a gem-like brilliance, sat on a flatbed trailer, ready to be taken to its new owner. Constance looked from Pendergast to the Rolls and back again. "I really don't need two, you know," he said.

Douglas Preston

#34. God bless us, everyone," Smithback intoned. Margo punched him playfully.

Douglas Preston