Ed McBain Quotes

I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.

Ed McBain

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• There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.

  

  Malvinder Mohan Singh
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Opportunity

• Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

  

  Jack Germond
  • She
  • Humor
  • Group

• I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Virtue
  • Reward
  • Itself

• Joan Cusack is one of my favorite comedic actresses, and every part she plays is so different. She does the wackiest stuff and somehow it works. I like watching her a lot, and I think you can always go further and pull back. That's something I really have to work on.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Different
  • She

• The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Job

• A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Feeling

• For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Health

• The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Gold
  • Place
  • Express

• Anything that I can do with my voice that's good, I'll try to do.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Good
  • Voice
  • Try

• Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • People
  • Live
  • Research

• I saw and loved.

  

  Edward Gibbon

• The language of communication will always need to be renewed.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Communication

• Even with the beauty stories we put out, we saw there was an opportunity to address issues of representation, identity, self-expression. We created the community that we wanted to have at 'Teen Vogue.' We were willing to lose some to have more.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Opportunity
  • Community
  • Identity

• Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

  

  Mason Cooley

• You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.

  

  Mary Gaitskill

• To be a stranger in a strange land: Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before, There where my brother far away is ascending, The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.

  

  Wang Wei
  • Thinking
  • Brother
  • Stranger

• Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Time
  • Beginning
  • Violence

• When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

  

  John Cheever
  • Family
  • Remember
  • Leaving

• I can only describe it as: the whole experience was imprinted on my body. And when I started to write it, it just came from such a very, In The Body of the Worldvery physical... it just came from my body. I don't know how to explain it better than that. I guess my head was transmitting it. It was a very, very physical experience writing this book.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Body

• A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.

  

  Dan Fogelman
  • Fun
  • Mother
  • Son

• I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.

  

  Ed McBain
  • Balance
  • Characters
  • Bride