Quote by Martin Cruz Smith Download Open image ““ennui. Nevertheless, when he heard the screech of gulls he”” — Martin Cruz Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“He was hungry, and his first thought was to collect a dozen or two gulls’ eggs to make a meal. But embryo chicks were… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“The dozen gulls by the shoreline came to meet him, none saying a word. He felt only that he was welcome and that this… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“Gulls, aeroplaning above the chimney pots, were calling that he must talk to Laura about his plans. He needed no telling, for once in… — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
“Here on the coast of Normandy, at this hour of the morning, I needed no one. The very gulls’ presence bothered me: I drove them off with stones. And hearing their supernatural shrieks, I realized that that was just what I wanted, that only the Sinister could soothe me, and that it was for such a confrontation that I had… — Emil Cioran Copy Share
“It was the most ludicrous sound I had ever heard. The strangled gargling sounded like a goat that was having an unpleasant sexual encounter.” — Peter Allison Copy Share Image
“He felt the ground frail as a bird’s skull under his feet, a mere shell of sanity and decorum between him and the dark… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“And while he waited in the castle court, The voice of Enid, Yniol's daughter, rang Clear through the open casement of the hall, Singing; and as the sweet voice of a bird, Heard by the lander in a lonely isle, Moves him to think what kind of bird it is That sings so delicately clear, and make Conjecture of the… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share
“Tom tingled at the knowledge that he was the only one to hear any of it: the only living man for the better part… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“...a new day was starting, the things of the garden were not concerned with our troubles. A blackbird ran across the rose-garden to the… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“I wondered which other phrases he´d plucked. I felt like a bird he kept for quills.” — Naoise Dolan Copy Share Image
“And with that, Jonathan held in thought an image of the great gull-flocks on the shore of another time, and he knew with practiced… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“Closer at hand, the wheeling gulls were as surly and lackadaisical as the day promised to make most men.” — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“Find the crime, Arkady thought: trying to kill Stalin or missing him.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“She [Kali] does according to her wisdom in destroying what is useless or what has lived its destined time.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“The gaja might despise the Romany, but no Rom ever forgot his dead. For him, roaming over the earth were not only the half… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share
It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“it swallows gas like a drunk, but a man who lets guilt ruin pleasure is the pincushion of fate.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that's one side of her, as it is for any god. If you knew her for thousands of years you'd know she could be all colors. The sky is black at night, but if your eyes were good enough, they could see the different lights of a… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share
Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
The research is the most interesting part… That’s how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“The chief investigator for Special Cases was a composite of the most ordinary features, a stencil of a man.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image