“Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The Charm School
“never ceased to amaze him how a discredited philosophy and a repressive nation still attracted idealists.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The Charm School
“The sun has riz, and the sun has set, and here we is in Roosha yet.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The Charm School
“Pravda, as you know, means ‘truth,’ and Izvestia means ‘news,’ and I’ve heard it said that there is no news in the Truth and no truth in the News.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The Charm School
Nelson DeMille
Born place: New York, NY, The United States
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“The chance that an atom emits a photon is enhanced if some photons (in a state that the atom can emit into) are already present. This phenomenon of "stimulated emission" was discovered by Einstein when he launched the quantum theory proposing the photon model of light. Lasers work on the basis of this phenomenon.”
― Richard Feynman, quote from QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
“But if it were true that his life had somehow been molded by acts of power of which he was unaware—then it would follow that he had never acted of his own volition; never had a moment of true self-consciousness. Everything he had ever assumed about himself was a lie, an illusion. And if this were so, how was he to find himself now?”
― Amitav Ghosh, quote from The Glass Palace
“Think of a woman whose body has made a child. Who gave birth to it. Cradled and nursed it. Loved it. She will hold life dear differently than someone who has not.” I wondered if once only mothers had been warriors. § § §”
― Catherine M. Wilson, quote from The Warrior's Path
“Sprinkled across the black waters below were at least a hundred small boats set out to greet the Leviathan, their navigation lights like shifting stars. Among them loomed a glittering cruise liner, her fog horn bellowing in the night. The low groan grew into a chorus as the other great ships in the harbor joined in.
Perched on Volger's desk, Bovril attempted to imitate the horns, but wound up sounding like a badly blown tuba.
Alek smiled. "But they're already singing our praises!"
"They are Americans," Volger said. "They toot their horns for anything.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Goliath
“No point making rules against things that are impossible.”
― G. Norman Lippert, quote from James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
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