Quotes About Strike

In Strike's opinion, the logo resembled shards of fluorescent glass randomly thrown together and he was equally unenamored of the official mascots, which looked to him like a pair of cycloptic molars.

Strike could hear his own heart beating with ominous force, like a kettle drum deep inside a cave. Red-hot threads of panic and dread darted through him.

At least you didn't punch her," said Robin. "In her wheelchair. In front of all the art lovers." Strike began to laugh.

but he brooked no jokes upon Cornish independence, a subject that for Strike had all the appeal of soft furnishings or train-spotting.

She hung up. Strike's dominant emotion was relief.

Mostly Strike was savoring the pleasure it had given him to hear Robin return his declaration of affection.

Churches are good cover for killers,' said Strike. 'Sex offenders, too.

But Strike, whose mother had ensured that he'd spent a large portion of his childhood in a fug of incense, dirt and mysticism, said shortly, "Yeah, well. I'm Team Rational.

In vanishing, Margot Bamborough had assumed in Strike's mind the insubstantiality of a wraith, as though it had always been predestined that she would one day disperse into the rainy dusk, never to return.

I am unique and conqueror. I am not of the slaves that perish.' Know who said that?" "Aleister Crowley," said Strike. "Unusual reading matter," said Creed, "for a decorated soldier in the British army." "Oh, we're all satanists on the sly," said Strike.

Strike was becoming steadily more taciturn, his expression brooding. Robin wondered whether this was because he was hungry—he was a man who needed regular sustenance to maintain an equable mood—or for some darker reason.

Even in an uninjured state Strike tended to intimidate, given that he was large, dark, naturally surly-looking and sported a boxer's profile.

His size, to which was added the offense of a backpack, caused unexpressed disgruntlement in those commuters forced to share the space with him, but Strike barely noticed.

purely to get to you, do you?' said Strike. 'Your fucking ego… The only negative thing about her I could see was that she knew your fucking stepbrother.

She'd washed her hands in the bathroom, but they were still damp, because she'd been in such a hurry to get back to Strike.

Admiral] Halsey was jubilant. Of the Princess-Saratoga strike, he wrote: 'I sincerely expected both air groups to be cut to pieces, and both carriers stricken if not lost. (I tried hard not to remember that my son Bill was aboard one of them.)

I had forgotten that, while Thor hurls his Hammer from storm-clouds, Odin prefers his strike to come out of a calm sky.

I'll try to record the spiritual quality of the things that strike me.

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game

According to the storyteller, the wedding very nearly took place, but at the most important moment, a group of perjurers participating in the case suddenly went on strike, demanding a pay increase.

But he isn't dead?' 'No, he isn't, as you can very well see. Instead of striking him between the sixth and seventh left rib, as your compatriots usually do, you must have struck higher or lower; and these lawyers, you know, are not easy to kill off.

to be an elite warrior was to strike savagely, without hesitation or second-guessing. No queasiness over hurting an opponent, no mercy, and no stopping to congratulate oneself. Nothing but focus, speed, confidence, and savage intent.

A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

From 1949 onward, any discussion of strike action was considered an "antidemocratic" crime against the state, and workers could be expelled from the party even for suggesting