Lew Archer Private

Famous quotes containing the words lew, archer and/or private:

    I’m going to my room now. Nobody must disturb me. Nobody, do you understand? I—I sleep during the day.
    Griffin Jay, Randall Faye, and Lew Landers. Armand Tesla (Bela Lugosi)

    I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
    —Jeffrey Archer (b. 1940)

    A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man’s door, and utter their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper but I find that some wretched government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)