Bobby Underwood Quotes

Minerals! The invaders had virtually wiped out our entire race for minerals. But then, who were we to complain, when for centuries elements of mankind had wiped out other races and peoples over oil, l...

My first night across the border I stopped at a ramshackle cantina that had a warped bar counter and dirt floor, like in the old west, and bought a drink for a tiny but curvy little Mexican girl named...

That's the way it is in Miami. There are good guys and bad guys and sometimes the twain do meet.

Vera Lynn was telling me it would be a lovely day tomorrow as my new Packard wended its way along the winding shore road. The cool sea mist blowing in my face felt wonderful, a refreshing reminder tha...

Where’s Steve Wilson and Lorelei when you really need them? said Beverly with a sigh. I know! replied Nancy. The two girls smiled at each other, easing the tension.

A good friend is always welcome company. Even when thoughts are sad. She smiled. Perhaps even mores then.

As such things have a tendency to do it got out of hand in the worst way, resulting in the rather gruesome death of Maggie Potter — no relation to Harry.

Both of them grinned. Must be a dame. Better than that. Watch out she don’t start walking you by jewelry store windows, said Roy. And make sure she don’t have to attend no funerals anytime soon. I’ll...

But that was over there, in Greece. This was Mykonos, a seaside sanctuary so timeless that I half expected to glimpse Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings walking along the dock as we disembarked from...

By firelight he read the book he had gotten on his one trip to New York. It was called The Moonstone, written by someone named Wilkie Collins. The pretty girl behind the counter had recommended it to...

Finally he turned to me, his eyes shifting from compassion to business in a heartbeat. You didn’t bring me out here for that, you must need something. Who exactly are you, and how are you playing this...

I frowned, staring into the eerie blackness along Route 33 truckers always complained about. It is odd how we rarely encounter true darkness. Somewhere, there is always light; a house, a town, headlig...

I hadn’t seen Krista Wallace for several years and the emotions it stirred when I did set eyes on her again surprised me. We had been a summer fling on the beaches of Ecuador, a brief yet sweet encoun...

I wanna show the girls how to use them. In case they get the drop and take away our guns. They probably won't search the girls. Juanita said, I Chihuahua! You want us carry those things? And use them...

I was at least four-hundred miles from life of any kind on this particular night when it began to rain. It was one of those summer rains that come down in buckets but pass quickly. I had a full load a...

I was much older now, settled in a little coastal town called Cabrer, which ironically means go away. It hadn’t been spoiled by tourists yet, so maybe the name had some kind of mojo that kept them awa...

Alan Ladd as Neale Jordan Veronica Lake as Ellen Hillman Mike Mazurki as Paul Fontana Elisha Cook Jr. as Ciro Ricci Gloria Graham as May Martell Frank Lovejoy as Randolph McGraw Hugh Beaumont as Charl...

All families were like that, with their private damage they kept among themselves, ghosts they lived with that only other family members knew about.

Depending on whether you were a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty sort it was either very late at night or the wee hours of morning as I cast my line into the aquamarine waters of Cozumel and saw he...

I didn't see how it could be anything bad, because that wasn't the way God worked, or at least the way I'd always believed he worked. I had gotten something back today that I'd all but lost, and by th...