Doug Atkins Quotes

#1. Such things happen.

Robert Goolrick

#2. Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#3. What I like best about this is not seeing you naked, love," Marcus said. He began to massage the bar of soap in the washcloth, creating a rich lather. "Though you are quite beautiful. What I like is knowing Josh is kneeling here beside you and cannot see you.

Joey W. Hill

#4. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation out of the mines Officer Starling.

Thomas Harris

#5. I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.' So, I was so, so happy, and I was so surprised.

Shuji Nakamura

#6. It also means I could dump what I learned about the Riot onto Pigpen and he'd once again shut me out.

Katie McGarry

#7. A jagged object cut the sky above the roofs; it was half a spire, still holding the glow of the sunset; the gold leaf had long since peeled off the other half. The glow was red and still, like the reflection of a fire: not an active fire, but a dying one which it is too late to stop.

Ayn Rand

#8. Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons).

C.S. Lewis

#9. Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.

Ashot Nadanian

#10. We found it!" Charlotte yelled, as they ran back through the house. "We found it, we found it!"
Eddie, Mr. Mallery, and Colonel Andrews came from separate directions, converging in the front hall. Miss Charming was hopping up and down, her bosom nearly rising to slap her own forehead.

Shannon Hale

#11. In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?

Agatha Christie

#12. It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.

Nicholas Negroponte

#13. when at last they'd had to admit to themselves that they'd made all the love they could, had been a last meal. Like

Alan Furst