Ted Bell > Quotes

“Just write it!”
― Ted Bell

“Hey. You know what the shark said to the clown?”
“No.”
“You taste funny.”
― Ted Bell, Spy

“A hero is merely a man never afraid of being called to heaven because he is certain he has done his duty, Nicholas."
-Admiral Lord Nelson (fictional)”
― Ted Bell, Nick of Time

“Eating and sleeping are the two periods in your life where writers get a pass for not reading. Check that.
Only sleeping.”
― Ted BELL

“He said having a smoking section in a restaurant was just like having a pissing section in a swimming pool.”
― Ted Bell, Hawke

“Bahia Mar marina, Fort Lauderdale.”
― Ted Bell, White Death

“complete works of Shakespeare bound in red leather and many other grand titles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Dame Agatha Christie’s memorable detectives.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“Switzerland is two times the size of the state of New Jersey, which has, by far, the larger population. Yet there are nearly a million men in the Swiss Army. It’s a civilian army, a trained and practiced militia, ready to mobilize instantly. Each citizen serves for thirty years. But all of them, a million of them, mind, are ready to grab their rifles and be present at mobilization points and battle stations all over the country. Within twenty-four hours.”
― Ted Bell, White Death

“Pain is just weakness leaving your body.”
― Ted Bell, Patriot

“They hid it obviously.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“Say nothing if you don’t understand, stay silent if you do.”
― Ted Bell, White Death

“Hawke’s Double Red Sea-Dweller had been made for COMEX”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“Any poor bastard who doesn’t drink, when he wakes up, he knows that’s the best he’s going to feel all day.”
― Ted Bell, Tsar

“It’s Eau d’Orange Verte,” she said. “Hermès.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“He could stomach”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“Time? What is time, really? The Swiss manufacture it. The French hoard it. Italians want it. Americans say it’s money. Hindus say it does not exist. Do you know what I say? I say time is a crook.”
― Ted Bell, Phantom

“often took it out on me. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose,”
― Ted Bell, Overkill

“while I was still at Oxford.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”
― Ted Bell, Warriors

“reckoned with: Little boys. They had a bad habit of instantaneously disobeying any rule you laid down the moment you let your guard slip. The little buggers were oftentimes free spirits, independent, pint-sized carpet monsters capable of little, if any, adult behavior. They ran when they should be walking and walked when they should be running. They woke when they should be sleeping and slept when they should be awaking. And trying to march them in tight formation? Might as well try herding cats.”
― Ted Bell, Sea Hawke

“What about the b-i-m-b-o, b-i-m-b-o, and Bimbo was her name-o.”
― Ted Bell, Warlord

“Honey, you know me. I only got two emotions. Hungry and horny. You see me without an erection, quick, make me a sandwich.”
― Ted Bell, Tsar

“criminalist,”
― Ted Bell, Overkill

“director under George H. W. Bush”
― Ted Bell, Patriot

“Brock was up front with him, cuddling Alexei’s beloved dog, Harry”
― Ted Bell, Patriot

“torn limb from limb by vicious man-eating guard dogs.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“Your Royal Majesty.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“Help me lift off this cover.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“Kugleschriber?”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“old”
― Ted Bell, Pirate