The examination was quick and expert. The man opened the box and began withdrawing a vial. Rebecca, a physician’s daughter, recognized another. She felt a vast sense of relief. Thank God—a Moor! Her father thought well of Islamic medicine. His opinion of Christian physicians bordered on profanity.
“What’s wrong?”
“Oh, nothing, I’m just going into cardiac arrest, because you…”
“What? I thought you said this was safe!”
“just yanked it out like a trout!”
Safe? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.
“Mostly harmless.”
This is “seismically stable”, eh?
“Wick…how come you didn’t apply to become the new demo chief?”
“All I know how to do is stick detonators in little bricks of boomex.”
As you can see, this plan provides many opportunities for me to die in a fiery explosion.
Why the hell aren’t you dead yet? Okay, this way.
They stood there in that alien place, the only life on Mars, hating each other.
Fear is the brother of hate.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.
Koba: Caesar weak!
Caesar: Koba weaker.
“You might consider standing down and abandoning ship in the next two minutes or so, Admiral Dubroskaya,” he replied, and an icy centipede seemed to sidle along her spine as his unflinching eyes and level tone registered. If this was a man who’d just discovered his bluff had failed, he was one hell of a poker player.
It’s the way your left eyebrow raises when you’re bluffing…
Vulcans don’t bluff.
The last thing in the universe that he wanted to do, Harry Styles realized in that instant, was to give Andrew LaFollet even the smallest excuse to do what the armsman wanted so badly to do.
I was afraid your busy little brain would figure that out, given time. Very well–mark me down as a reluctant hero.
They sent in their best man, and when we roll across the 69th Street bridge tomorrow, on our way to freedom, we’re going to have their best man leading the way - from the neck up! On the hood of my car! Let’s do it!
I’m sorry. I didn’t use my head. That wasn’t a very smart thing to do.
Now, I’m no librarian, in fact, I don’t know what star sign I am. But, as a famous person once said, “You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” And as I - another more famous person - once said, “If you don’t teach them to read, you can fool them whenever you like.”