John Mcgee Quotes

#1. I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.

Alan Furst

#2. The first rumors about Zenith came from the Czechoslovakians.

Tom Clancy

#3. I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life.

John Wesley

#4. He chuckled and pulled himself to his feet. "End of session, McGee. Good night and good luck." At the door he turned and said, "I'll have you checked out, of course. Just for the hell of it. I'm a careful and inquisitive man.

John D. MacDonald

#5. I kept my plan simple: leave my comfort zone, work in a foreign city, enjoy some uninhibited fun, and return home in one year.

Torre DeRoche

#6. What is the secret, my darling, of your being everything to all of us, as if there werre only one of us, yet never seeming to be hurried, or to have too much to do?
-Darney to Lucie

Charles Dickens

#7. More faults are created than cured by professional teachers.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#8. And would not her fastidious litheness take away the heavy taste of the fleshy girls in the Citrus Inn? McGee, the Perfidious.

John D. MacDonald

#9. So Ahmadinejad wants to be the first Iranian in space - wasn't he there just last week? 'Iran launches monkey into space.'

John McCain

#10. You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!

John Calipari

#11. In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do.
Meyer's Law

John D. MacDonald

#12. I don't double dip, do I?

J.B. McGee

#13. You're mine," I growl, possession crashing through me. "Never forget it, JJ. You've always been mine.

Roxy Sloane

#14. In the sense of movement a boat is a living thing.
It is a companion in the night. Each boat has its own manner and character.
Travis McGee, 1985

John D. MacDonald

#15. one man's windchimes are another man's migraine

Marcus Dagan

#16. I don't think most people start by saying 'no' to God, they're just not sure they're prepared to say 'yes'. And then as time goes by it's as if it gets harder and harder to say 'yes' because they've developed a whole lifestyle around 'no.

Tom Flaherty