Alistair Maclean Quotes

I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited.

I want to cause havoc. I want to cause mayhem - and I mean the worst mayhem you can see.

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays.

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

Haiti looks like a bomb hit it.

War is not neat. It's not tidy. It's a mess.

I am defacing nothing. I am destroying.

Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.

And then he left, and came back, and our lives fell apart, like a well-loved book that you’d read and read again, until one night you picked it up to read yourself to sleep and the binding collapsed, sending dozens of pages spiraling toward the floor.

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.

Create havoc, create destruction.

Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

For you know only a heap of broken images

One sound blow will serve to undo us all.

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

Clearly, I see it. I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there. A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book.

And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.