Top 31 Pendergast's Quotes
#1. I like your custom 1911," the man said, glancing at Pendergast's weapon. "Les Baer Thunder Ranch Special? Nice-looking piece.
Douglas Preston
#2. 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
#3. The more sex becomes a non-issue in people's lives, the happier they are.
Shirley Maclaine
#4. 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
#5. Fundamentally only two great novelties have come out of recent warfare. They are: (1) mechanical vehicles, which relieve the Soldier of equipment hitherto carried by him; (2) air supply, which relieves the vehicle of the road.
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
#7. I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.
John Forbes Nash Jr.
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Here we don't drink coffee, we 'take' it, as a medicine," echoed his business partner, Luigi Solito. "To me, the philosophy of the suspended coffee is that you are happy today, and you give a coffee to the world, as a present.
Anonymous
#11. D'Agosta had long ago learned, when working with Pendergast, to never get caught without two things: a gun and a flashlight.
Douglas Preston
#12. 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
#13. There was a pause while Pendergast considered this. I prefer hypocrisy to poverty.
Douglas Preston
#14. What a rush you're in to show me the last dregs of your vile soul!
Giacomo Puccini
#15. 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
#17. Not only eating Lieutenant, but slobbering over the food as well. Clearly, he, she, or it has no manners.
Douglas Preston
#18. Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable.
Douglas Preston
#19. Let regret rewind your past and let secret remind your last.
Regret is your blessing but secret is your suffering.
Aram Seriteratai
#20. The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.
Theodor Adorno
#21. There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.
Douglas Preston
#22. God bless us, everyone," Smithback intoned. Margo punched him playfully.
Douglas Preston
#23. When you really love, that makes you feel unsure in your self, even though it is love that reaches your heart.
John De Ruiter
#24. 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
#26. Mrs. Trask turned to him. When Mr. Pendergast asks for something, we do not say no.
Douglas Preston
#27. 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
#28. I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.
Alfonso Ribeiro
#29. I like the camera to be still and not very shaky and have everything happen within the frame.
Gia Coppola
#30. 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
#31. 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
