Clive Cussler > Quotes

“To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.”
― Clive Cussler, The Sea Hunters

“Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic and discover a beautiful girl?”
― Clive Cussler, Shock Wave

“I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.”
― Clive Cussler, The Sea Hunters

“Time is a thief. It steals our memory, our hopes, and our strength, leaving only the sense there’s never enough of it.”
― Clive Cussler, The Solomon Curse

“Life’s a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
― Clive Cussler, Lost Empire

“Though neither of them had ever called their meeting a case of love at first sight, they'd both agreed it had certainly been a case of "pretty damned sure at first hour.”
― Clive Cussler, Spartan Gold

“We’re not lost,” he said in a cheery tone. “We’re just locationally deficient and directionally challenged at the moment.”
― Clive Cussler, The Pharaoh's Secret

“She was a Privately funded spy ship owned by the corporation and headed by Juan Cabtillo. The Oregon was his brain child and his one true love.”
― Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul

“While like most men, Sam prided himself on being equipped with a supernatural internal compass that kept him from ever being lost, he'd also learned to concede those rare times when that compass seemed to be temporary disrepair.”
― clive cussler, Lost Empire

“My daddy always said, ‘Luck never gives, it lends,”
― Clive Cussler, Piranha

“Americans have an annoying habit of accomplishing what they set out to do.”
― Clive Cussler, Raise The Titanic!

“Deep, choking sobs that sounded like his soul was being torn apart. He clutched at his father and Max took his in his arms. "I am so sorry dad." Kyle sobbed. "And I forgive you because that is what fahters do" said Max”
― Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul, Plague Ship [A Novel Of The Oregon Files]

“When power is up for grabs,” Pitt said, “the first casualty is often liberty.”
― Clive Cussler, Havana Storm

“A grief-stricken man is driven to defy the gods.”
― Clive Cussler, Valhalla Rising

“Not to worry,” said Giordino with humorous detachment. “If the inscriptions prove ancient, they’re probably nothing but a book of ancient recipes.” “Recipes for what?” inquired Helm. “Goat,” said Giordino moodily. “A thousand and one ways to serve goat.”
― Clive Cussler, Atlantis Found

“Dangerous things, books."
"Look what it did to your brain.”
― Clive Cussler, Pirate

“Hitting the first molecules of the upper atmosphere created friction that merely warmed the rod. The lower it fell, the more the heat built, until the entire length of the rod glowed red then yellow, and, finally, a brilliant white.”
― Clive Cussler, Plague Ship

“In this century wars will not be fought over oil, as in the past, but over water. The situation is becoming desperate. The world's water is strained by population growth. There is no more fresh water on earth than two thousand years ago when the population was three percent of its current size.
Even without the inevitable droughts, like the current one, it will get worse as demand and pollution increase.
Some countries will simply run out of water, sparking a global refugee crisis. Tens of millions of people will flood across international borders. It means the collapse of fisheries, environmental destruction, conflict, lower living standards." She paused for a moment. "As people who deal with the ocean you must see the irony. We are facing a shortage on a planet whose surface is covered two-thirds with water.”
― Clive Cussler, Blue Gold

“A man accepts the thankless burden of responsibility. We women do not. To us, life is a game we play one day at a time.”
― Clive Cussler, Raise The Titanic!

“Readers, A few years ago, while I was writing Flood Tide, I realized that Dirk Pitt needed some help on a particular assignment, and so I dreamed up Juan Cabrillo. Cabrillo ran a ship called the Oregon, on the outside completely nondescript, but on the inside packed with state-of-the-art intelligence-gathering equipment. It was a completely private enterprise, available for any government agency that could afford it. It went where no warship could go, transported secret cargo without suspicion, plucked”
― Clive Cussler, Golden Buddha

“Take away the clothes of the greatest living man, his father once told him, and you behold a very embarrassed, naked and defenseless animal.”
― Clive Cussler, Iceberg

“fisherman had to be a combination biologist, meteorologist, mechanic and mariner. Their livelihood, their very lives, depended on their store of practical knowledge.”
― Clive Cussler, Fire Ice

“Life is as you yourself make it.”
― Clive Cussler, The Oracle

“Great escape read, yet always come back again and again”
― Clive Cussler, The Rising Sea

“They who await no gifts from chance, conquer fate.”
― Clive Cussler, Shock Wave

“We’ve been through all this a thousand times. I won’t subject myself to the indignities of pregnancy. I won’t swish crap-laden diapers around in a toilet bowl ten times a day. Let someone else populate the earth. I’m not about to split off my soul, like some damned amoeba.”
― Clive Cussler, Raise The Titanic!

“Don’t give up on Jim Sandecker,” said Gunn. “He may have been blocked by the White House in securing the Roosevelt, but I’ll bet you a dinner with soft lights and music that he’ll come up with a replacement.” “You’re on,” she said, smiling thinly. “That’s a bed I’ll gladly lose.” He looked up curiously. “I beg your pardon?” “A Freudian slip.” She laughed tiredly. “I meant ‘bet.”
― Clive Cussler, Shock Wave

“there is evil in this world. And all it takes for it to triumph is for good people to do nothing.”
― Clive Cussler, Dark Watch

“Hold on,' he shouted to the woman, realizing even as he spoke that she wasn't holding anything at all, but guessing that 'hang in there' would have had a terrible ring to it.”
― Clive Cussler, Devil's Gate

“Give me ambiguity or give me something else.”
― Clive Cussler, The Emperor's Revenge