114 Quotes by clive cussler

Hold on,′ he shouted to the woman, realizing even as he spoke that she wasn’t holding anything at all, but guessing that ‘hang in there’ would have had a terrible ring to it.

They who await no gifts from chance, conquer fate.

In 1892, mine owner L. L. Nunn had hired the electrical wizard Nikola Tesla to build the world’s first alternating-current power.

He opened the door, and his smile faded as his eyes went to the DUNKIN’ DONUTS emblazoned on the flat cardboard box in Paul’s hands. Perlmutter recoiled like a vampire being offered garlic, and would have fled into the house if Trout had not lifted the box’s lid.

Great escape read, yet always come back again and again.

A man accepts the thankless burden of responsibility. We women do not. To us, life is a game we play one day at a time.

We’re not lost,” he said in a cheery tone. “We’re just locationally deficient and directionally challenged at the moment.

Take away the clothes of the greatest living man, his father once told him, and you behold a very embarrassed, naked and defenseless animal.

The captain moniker derived from a tired blue hat he wore on his head. It was the classic captain’s hat favored by rich yachtsmen, sporting crossed gold anchors on its prow. Dahlgren’s hat, however, looked like it had been run over by an M-1 tank.