Author: Arthur Hailey

Cites

• Bible (3)
  • IN: In High Places (1961) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! 0 Jonathan, thou wast slain in thy high places.
    FROM: The Lament of David, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: OVERLOAD (1978) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning.
    FROM: Bible, Luke, 12:35, (100), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Overload (1978) Fiction, Suspense, Adventure fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning.
    FROM: St. Luke, 13, (100), Bible, NULL
• William Shakespeare (5)
  • IN: The Moneychangers (2001) Fiction, Suspense, Adventure fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If thou art rich, thou'rt poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.
    FROM: Measure for Measure, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: Strong Medicine (1984) Fiction, Suspense, Adventure fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd, Or not at all.
    FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
• Julius Ceasar (1)
  • IN: Wheels (1971) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Henceforward, no wheeled vehicles whatsoever will be allowed within the precincts of the City, from sunrise until the hour before dusk ... Those which shall have entered during the night, and are still within the City at dawn, must halt and stand empty until the appointed hour ...
    FROM: Senatus consulturn of Julius Caesar, 44 B.C., (-44), Book, Italy
• Juvenal (1)
  • IN: Wheels (1971) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It is absolutely impossible to sleep anywhere in the City. The perpetual traffic of wagons in the narrow winding streets ... is sufficient to wake the dead ...
    FROM: the Satires of Juvenal, A.D. 117, (117), Poem, Italy
• Voltaire (2)
  • IN: Detective (1997) Fiction, Mystery, British
    EPIGRAPH: Life resembles the banquet of Damocles; the sword is ever suspended.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• John Milton (2)
  • IN: OVERLOAD (1978) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon . . .
    FROM: Samson Agonistes, (1671), Poem, UK
  • IN: Overload (1978) Fiction, Suspense, Adventure fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon . . .
    FROM: Samson Agonistes, (1671), Poem, UK
• NULL (4)
  • IN: OVERLOAD (1978) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Since . . . 1974, the rate at which new electrical generating capacity has been built in California has fallen to less than half of the 1970-74 level. As a result, the threat of an economically ruinous power crunch by the 1990's is very real; and there is already apprehension over the danger of brownouts and blackouts in the 1980's . . .
    FROM: Fortune Magazine, (None), Article, US
  • IN: Runway Zero-Eight (1958) Fiction, Suspense, Adventure fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: FLIGHT LOG 2205—0045 0045—0145 0145—0220 0220—0245 0245—0300 0300—0325 0325—0420 0420—0435 0435—0505 0505—0525 0525—0535
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: Wheels (1975) Fiction, Suspense, Adventure fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It is absolutely impossible to sleep anywhere in the City. The perpetual traffic of wagons in the narrow winding streets ... is sufficient to wake the dead ...
    FROM: The Satires of Juvenal, A.D. 117, (117), NULL, Italy
• Thomas Sydenham, M.D. (1)
  • IN: Strong Medicine (1984) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add a new one.
    FROM: Preface to Observations on Medicine 3rd edition, (1676), Book, UK
• Shakespeare, William (1)
  • IN: The Moneychangers (2001) Fiction, Suspense, Adventure fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Poul-cank'ring rust the hidden treasure frets, But gold that's put to use more gold begets.
    FROM: Venus and Adonis, (1593), Poem, UK
• Fortune Magazine (1)
  • IN: Overload (1978) Fiction, Suspense, Adventure fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Since . . . 1974, the rate at which new electrical generating capacity has been built in California has fallen to less than half of the 1970-74 level. As a result, the threat of an economically ruinous power crunch by the 1990's is very real; and there is already apprehension over the danger of brownouts and blackouts in the 1980's . . .
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Thomas Sydenham, MD (1)
  • IN: Strong Medicine (1984) Fiction, Suspense, Adventure fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add a new one.
    FROM: Preface to Observations on Medicine 3rd edition, (1676), Book, UK