Quotes from Clive Cussler

and a hooked nose. His skin was the color of weak tea.

it is now clear to me that behind a façade of amiable bumbling, you are extremely well informed about your fellow spies. In fact, I suspect you know more about them than the ships you're supposed to be spying on.

A snake can shed its skin but it still remains a snake.

Time is on our side. Not only will we erode America from the outside, but with the help of your own countrymen we will eventually cause it to crumble from within.

The man's tradecraft was appalling. It was surprising that nobody had eliminated him before. Li was so careless it seemed a miracle he hadn't been killed simply by accident.

Sam and Remi dressed quickly and headed up on deck. When they climbed the steps to the bridge, they could see why Juan had wanted to wake them. Through the windshield they could see the distant shape of Tacaná, the second highest peak in Mexico. It was a dark blue pyramid miles back from the coast, standing alone against the sky. This morning, it was emitting a line of gray smoke that trailed off to the east

Nereus, the Old Man of the Sea," Nina murmured, cocking her head in thought. "There's a quote from Hesiod, the Greek poet: 'A trusty and gentle god who thinks just and kindly thoughts and never lies.

I must have entered a time warp or I've fallen into the Twilight Zone. Which is it? Neither. You're at the harbor in San Felipe, and you're looking at your home for the next two weeks. Good lord, an honest-to-God steamboat with a walking beam engine and side paddlewheels. I must admit it does have an air of Mark Twain about it. What do you want to bet it ferried Grant's troops across the Mississippi to Vicksburg?

I didn't know we received CNN this deep in the Andes.

ANYONE SEEING AN OLD DERELICT SOT SLOWLY SWAYING down Moon Avenue in Bisbee that afternoon

JANUARY 10, 1906 BISBEE, ARIZONA

The man's head nodded to his chest; he looked like a drunk who had dozed off. But it was an act.

But gold was not what piqued his interest. It was too heavy and too risky for one man to dispose of.

It was the cash that brought him to Bisbee, not the prized yellow metal.

GRAND ST. BERNARD PASS, PENNINE ALPS MAY 1800

radioman Schmidt says he's picking up a faint signal.

You should see the latest computer-generated movies featuring the long-gone old stars with the new. I've watched the video of Arizona Sunset at least a dozen times. Who plays the leads? Humphrey Bogart, Lionel Barrymore, Marilyn Monroe, Julia Roberts, and Tom Cruise. It's so real, you'd swear they all acted together on the set.

is almost a certainty that a well-planned offense will defeat an unplanned defense every single time.

toward the truck. Sam shoved

What do you expect me to do, leap across space and brain them with the jawbone of an ass? Or maybe they'll go away if I throw ricks at them?

Picture writing, as in Egyptian hieroglyphics? Very similar. What we might call an illustrated comic strip. Only without the panels. The panels were never fully deciphered.

Mohammad, left a lot to be desired.

Intruders can rig your private elevator easier than stealing a Mercedes-Benz.

could have cared less