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"Jerome Hogg: You must know her...the face that launched a thousand clips. That's a technical TV term."
"Ian Kerr: What's this?"
"Ian Kerr: Right, what have you got for me?"
"Lewis: A Vincent 'Black Shadow' motorcycle, registration number Oh Ay Eff ..."
"Morse: Here we are again, Lewis. Piecing together the last moments of a total stranger."
"Lewis: Tired, Sir?"
"Morse: Hello, Harry - I got your note."
"Morse: (Reads) Lignum crucis arbor scientiae... the wood of the cross is the tree of knowledge."
"Harry Field's answering machine: Hello, this is Harry. Health, Wealth and Happiness! Leave a message - for God's sake!"
"Sister: And what, may I ask, are you doing with my patient?!"
"Lewis: [Enquiring after the chain-smoking female priest] Who, cigar and cassock?"
"Lewis: That badge of yours. Why did you keep it?"
"Lewis: I think you could have let her win the chess, Sir."
"Morse: Get on with it, Lewis!"
"Frederick Redpath: My name is Frederick Redpath. It has been for the last eleven years."
"Morse: Different policemen have different methods, Mrs Lapsley"
"Mrs Dawson: Patrick thinks you're a very good detective. A poor policeman, and a very good detective."
"Morse: Well, I think I'll go for a walk. What about you?"
"Constable: I was over the way ... and there was this car..."
"Lewis: (Noticing Inspector Hillian's drinking) The way he knocks it back, it's a wonder he lived to collect an OBE."
"Morse: (to Lewis) Go and see it! You'll love it...it's got a dragon."
"Morse: No, I don't join groups. I'm even thinking of leaving the choir."
"Morse: Toscanini? Arturo Toscanini? That's the WORST recording of 'The Magic Flute' there's ever been! I wouldn't even let it in the house!"
"Hugo deVries: I am Zoroastro; YOU are Monostatos!"
"Hugo deVries: I like being dead. It takes the strain out of living."
"Lewis: (admiring DeVries' Jaguar) Nice car!"
"Hugo deVries: You're sweating, Morse. It's most disagreeable."
"Morse: With a man like deVries, you have to look INSIDE the coffin!"
"Lewis: (to Bottomley) Like a game of chess, do you, Sir?"
"Morse: You'd better start by rolling your trouser-leg up, Lewis. DCI Bottomley is a grand master, a grander master that I."
"Lewis: You go trampling about, don't you. You think you're so clever, but sometimes you're a bloody fool!"
"Morse: That's our man, alright!"
"George: The electrics are up the chute, for a start."
"Lewis: Do you fancy a pint, Sir?"
"Morse: That's it, Lewis! You're a genius!"
"Mrs Radford: So, Morse, must the evil that men do live on after them?"
"Lewis: The last shall be first and the first shall be last"
"Butler: Your name, Sir?"
"Lewis: You'll never believe this, Sir. We have to visit a brewery!"
"Mrs Copley-Barnes: There was a Serpent in our house, coiled around the foundation."
"Lewis: Taxonomy? Sounds like stuffing. Stuffing umbrellas?"
"Lewis: Aw, it's lentil soup in the canteen today"
"Milton's 'Paradise Lost': (Book 1) "Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile stir'd up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd the Mother of Mankind ...""
"Mrs Hederson: It was just after I was speaking to you Sgt Lewis, it was really strange."
"Lewis: I have to, er, y'know (use the Gents')"
"Morse: People are dying out there. Even cricket has to come to a stop."
"Morse: Would you keep an eye on my car? It's the red 'Jaguar' across the road."
"Roland Marshall: Morse. My God ... it's 'Pagan Morse' !"
"Morse: I stumble about. That's what I do. Sometimes I stumble in the right direction."
"The New Testament: "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is Death.""
Heute, am 12. Tag schlagen wir unser Lager in einem sehr merkwürdig geformten Höhleneingang auf. Wir sind von den Strapazen der letzten Tage sehr erschöpft, das Abenteuer an dem großen Wasserfall steckt uns noch allen in den Knochen. Wir bereiten uns daher nur ein kurzes Abendmahl und ziehen uns in unsere Kalebassen-Zelte zurück. Dr. Zwitlako kann es allerdings nicht lassen, noch einige Vermessungen vorzunehmen. 2. Aug.
- Das Tagebuch
Es gab sie, mein Lieber, es gab sie! Dieses Tagebuch beweist es. Es berichtet von rätselhaften Entdeckungen, die unsere Ahnen vor langer, langer Zeit während einer Expedition gemacht haben. Leider fehlt der größte Teil des Buches, uns sind nur 5 Seiten geblieben.
Also gibt es sie doch, die sagenumwobenen Riesen?
Weil ich so nen Rosenkohl nicht dulde!
- Zwei außer Rand und Band
Und ich bin sauer!