Quote by Rick Atkinson

“Here on the coast of Normandy, at this hour of the morning, I needed no one. The very gulls’ presence bothered me: I drove…

— Emil Cioran

“He could easily slip and pull the trigger and accidently shoot me in the eye. A grating pain struck my shoulder blade from behind.…

— Steven Keith Hunter

“We’ll fight them from the hills, we’ll fight them in the trees. We’ll hunker down in the river and take them out, sniper-style. Save…

— Emma Chase

“They walked side by side along the dark beach toward Monterey, where the lights hung, necklace above necklace against the hill. The sand dunes…

— John Steinbeck

“Great laughter rang from all sides. I wondered what the Spirit of the Mountain was thinking, and looked up and saw jackpines in the…

— Jack Kerouac

“The heat swept off the black asphalt in waves as our ragged group started down the street between two columns of people. At first,…

— Anonymous

“Running up out of the surf on to the beach at St. Tropez I thought I was shot. I looked down and saw red…

— Charles Brandt

“WE stowed the wheels, uncapped the sledge-runners, put on our sis, and took off -- down, north, onward, into that silent vastness of fire…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“If Bedlam gates had been flung open wide, there would not have issued forth such maniacs as the frenzy of that night had made.…

— Charles Dickens

“There was a cry heard, and a crash. The cry was so horrible in its agony that the frightened servants woke and crept out…

— Oscar Wilde

“The crows were looking very much the worse for wear. Their black suits were dusty and torn; the maid at the Pension Maria had…

— Eva Ibbotson

“it was a duel in which two participants got up at crack of dawn, one armed with a rapier, the other with a blunderbuss,…

— E. Gordon Rupp