Mark Steyn Quotes
The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.Mark Steyn
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Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
Vicki Delany -
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
J. Edgar Hoover -
There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
Hans Eysenck
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
Natsuo Kirino -
To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
Irene Peter -
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack Kerouac -
What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
Pat Brown -
Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
Wally Amos -
That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
Karin Slaughter
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde -
I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
Kate Mosse -
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Samuel Gompers -
I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
Octavia Spencer -
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
Ida B. Wells -
There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
Patrick Carman
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The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future.
Helen Keller -
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
Fran Lebowitz -
Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.
Carlene Carter -
"The Cursed Wheel" is the heart of the whole year on All-Star. All-Star is a series that's largely compartmentalized so that every artist can reinvent a villain and have Batman go up against the villain in a way that's pretty singular.
Scott Snyder -
Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
Abraham Verghese -
The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.
Mark Steyn