S. S. Van Dine Quotes

There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel,

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• I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Guy
  • Hair
  • Thought

• Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • Life
  • May
  • History

• Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Task

• My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Dumb

• I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Country
  • West
  • Puppet

• Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • You
  • Woman
  • Yourself

• When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Children
  • Education
  • Point

• I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Give

• During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
  • Makeup

• Time and space may separate us, but not the thoughts and memories that bind us.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Time
  • May
  • Space

• Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Care

• Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Men
  • Words
  • inspirational

• I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Fear
  • Bible
  • Forget

• Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Soul
  • Survival

• We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Arrive
  • Equations
  • Algebra

• To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • May
  • Reason
  • Enjoy

• When you're rich, 'crazy' is just 'eccentric'.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Crazy
  • Rich
  • Eccentric

• For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the United States has been twice saved in our time by the arguments formulated by Turgot.

  

  Andrew Dickson White
  • Country
  • Price
  • Transition

• There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel,

  

  S. S. Van Dine
  • Novel
  • Corpses
  • Detectives