Hardcase Quotes

#1. He was the other man, the other face, the hardcase, the dark man, the Walkin Dude, and his rundown bootheels clocked along the perfumed ways of the summer night.

Stephen King

#2. Janice rolled her eyes. First, the doctor had ogled her, and now Karr was leering at her and licking his lips lasciviously.
Oh this is great. I'm being mentally undressed by a space pirate.

William L. Lavell

#3. Solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public ... [p. 7]

Shirley Hazzard

#4. When he's cheerful his tongue runs away with him, and he's depressed he can be unkind. So it's common sense not to let him into every are of your life.

Julian Barnes

#5. If she's really psychic," Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell?

Joan Bauer

#6. One of the hollow point bullets wedges itself so deep in the cop's brain you can see all of his filthy thoughts. I

Steven Rage

#7. The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location.

Richard E. Pattis

#8. Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature
and only that.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#9. That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true history inverts the official one.

Oliver Harris

#10. So the steel chain forged with such reptilian cunning snapped at the link that had been fashioned from a woman's heart.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#11. A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Thomas Fuller

#12. Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

Alfred De Vigny

#13. [On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial and so profound, that any attempt to present it as a unified, consistent whole, to enclose it within a rigid frame, inevitably tempts one to cheat or to falsify.

Iris Origo

#14. The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.

Carl Sagan

#15. I'm not seeing a strong father-son relationship here, Alex. You two make Anakin and Luke look like Andy and Opie.

Rachel Vincent