Red October Quotes

#1. When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was 'Hunt for Red October' by Tom Clancy.

Max Brooks

#2. For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.

Dan Brown

#3. I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

Rabih Alameddine

#4. And finally, I understood that real life - with all its ups and downs, complications, broken hearts, and triumphs - was a million times ore satisfying than any fairy tale ever could be.

Talli Roland

#5. Those Yalta nights, with extraordinary women who could drink vodka without swooning until six in the morning and sweaty young people from the Association of Proletarian Writers of Crimea who came to ask for literary advice at four in the afternoon.

Roberto Bolano

#6. It was one at bat during October 1975 that defined his [Joe Morgan's] place in baseball history and secured the legacy of the Big Red Machine, all with one swing.

Tucker Elliot

#7. What does a man live for but to have a girl, use his mind, practice his trade, drink a drink, read a book, and watch the martins wing it for the Amazon and the three-fingered sassafras turn red in October?
Art Immelmann is right. Man is not made for suffering, night sweats, and morning terrors.

Walker Percy

#8. If you don't have a sense of wonder it's like you're dead inside. But your sense of wonder can be used to trick you. You can have a sense of wonder over a thing that's basically a conjurer's trick, or a con job, or a rip-off.

Bruce Sterling

#9. My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

Danica Patrick

#10. I'm inspired by people who are so sensitive and vulnerable that they try to cover it up.

Jessica Chastain

#11. I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

Frederik Pohl

#12. October 1976 was the penultimate performance of Bench's Hall of Fame career. All the early success and awards and accolades thrown in his direction had prepared him for this moment - when the Big Red Machine became a dynasty by defending it's World Championship from the season before.

Tucker Elliot

#13. It's not just a football club. Celtic means so much to so many people.

Fergus McCann

#14. Your mom can't hate a whole country because of one person!

Jeaniene Frost

#15. And then I roll out, just after midnight on October 3, with that one particular memory, of me and Naomi at Mr. Chow's, threaded through my ribs like a red ribbon. It

Ben H. Winters

#16. And so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

Alice Hoffman

#17. We are paid for our daily labors by the pennies and dollars; we are paid in respect and gratitude when those labors consist of good deeds.

Charles Cross

#18. It's hard to know you'll never be enough just because you're not someone else.

Stacey Kade

#19. I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

Richard Dawkins