Flight or Fright Quotes

“My own favorite Bierce bon mot: “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.”
― Stephen King, Flight or Fright

“War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.”
― Stephen King, Flight or Fright

“The conservatism of which Gallagher was doubtless a disciple was not a proper philosophy. It was a bad mood.”
― Stephen King, Flight or Fright

“As usual, the world was in a state similar to his. Friction in diplomatic circles, earthquakes and gunfire, murder, rape, tornadoes and collisions, business conflicts, gangsterism. God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world, thought Arthur Jeffrey Wilson.”
― Stephen King, Flight or Fright

“A visitor might descend upon this planet a thousand times and never see a tiger. Yet tigers exist, and if he chanced to come down into a jungle he might be devoured.”
― Stephen King, Flight or Fright

“You train and re-train, so that when six hours of absolute boredom become twelve seconds of maximum danger, you know exactly what to do.”
― Stephen King, Flight or Fright

“Do we understand the implications of the things we create? Underlying this is another: Once created, can anything be un-created?”
― Stephen King, Flight or Fright

“You ever listen to that heavy metal music?” He painted such a vivid thumbnail that I was momentarily lost in it, groundless. “What? Oh, yeah, some. You know.” “I never liked it,” said Jorgensen. Pause for me to construct a mental image of Jorgensen sitting down all cozy with a Black Sabbath greatest hits disc. A taste of Mudhoney thrash. Perhaps a jot of some Norwegian speed-metal band’s idea of meltdown. “Know why? It sounds like combat, that’s why.”
― Stephen King, Flight or Fright

“After three years of misadventures and hard-won discoveries in the darkest corners of the earth, he finally learned the one lesson that his parents had tried to teach him, back in Palo Alto. Being poor sucked.”
― Stephen King, Flight or Fright

“He had faced more bloodthirsty rooms than he imagined Estonia could muster.”
― Stephen King, Flight or Fright

“So elastic and gelatinous was it that never for two successive minutes was it the same shape, and yet each change made it more threatening and loathsome than the last.”
― Stephen King, Flight or Fright

“decision about whether it was over the line. The answer: it was. But for all that, for all the debate and decapitated careers, the CIA was still allowed to use simulated drowning (John actually preferred this more honest term), just as John had originally argued. His core arguments were still in place. Of course, no one in Justice wanted to sign off on CIA use of the technique, but the President found his man. He always did. But that was bitterness. John was not bitter. He would have liked to see Feith or Gonzales or Ashcroft, or any of them, alone in a European city, answering questions on policies they had endorsed and were now ashamed of.”
― Stephen King, Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales