Rex Stout Quotes

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

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• It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Age
  • Know
  • Start

• When we fall in love, we feel that this person is ours and we are theirs by our mutual volition, and we know they could leave - we know that because they are free, and their freedom is part of the thrill.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Freedom
  • Person
  • Feel

• I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical cuisine, a foundation of a lot of other cuisines. That said, it's not the only way to approach a cooking career.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Think
  • Career
  • Cooking

• But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Healthy
  • Clear
  • Inequality

• I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.

  

  Debbie Gibson
  • People
  • Life

• There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No ones illegal. They should just be able to come.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• Isn't she lovely made from love?

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Love
  • She
  • Made

• I think it's great if a guy has a good sized package.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Thinking

• The day will put a particular emphasis on educating people of all ages about the lessons to be learnt from genocide.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • Lessons
  • Particular

• I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Great
  • Internet
  • Changes

• Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Music
  • Long
  • Words

• It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

  

  Sallust
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Friendships

• As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.

  

  Meriwether Lewis
  • Scene
  • Visionaries
  • Enchantment

• I have played some very kind and loving character. I don't know why I'm so good at playing bad. I really don't.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Character
  • Kind
  • Knows

• The writer's job, after all, is not to dictate meaning, but to give the reader enough pieces to create his or her own satisfying meaning. The story is truly finished—and meaning is made—not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters the story and fills that little ambiguous space, completing the circuit, letting the power flow through.

  

  Celeste Ng
  • Enough
  • Add
  • Ambiguous

• Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

  

  Rex Stout
  • Scene
  • Marvelous
  • Holmes