Ed McBain Quotes

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

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• I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Right

• In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Help
  • Hope

• People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

  

  Ja Rule
  • People
  • Time
  • Famous

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Peace
  • Problem
  • Product

• Stay calm and aggressive.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Calm
  • Stay
  • Aggressive

• I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Always

• These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Community

• It's about players making choices as they play, and then dealing with the consequences of those choices. It's about you telling your story, not me telling mine. It's about you.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Me
  • Choices
  • Consequences

• As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Love
  • Rich

• I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Music
  • Scene
  • Seattle

• I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Family
  • River
  • Cook

• 'Well,' said Dr Jochum, 'you are like all reformers. You like to reform the world because it is easier than trying to reform yourself.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • World
  • Trying

• The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World

• Science has no prejudices - though scientists often do. Science is like figures: they do not lie themselves, but the men who figure are often the greatest liars in the world.

  

  Elisha Gray
  • World
  • Men
  • Science

• Es gibt Fälle, ... wo jeder Trost niederträchtig und Verzweiflung Pflicht ist.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • People
  • True
  • Dirty

• They say that bears Have love affairs And even camels, We're merely mammals Let's misbehave.

  

  Cole Porter

• I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Good
  • Father
  • Singing

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Depression
  • Bed

• Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?

  

  George Eliot
  • Moments
  • Waiting
  • Habit

• Paul believed, in fact, that Jesus had gone through death and out the other side. Jesus had gone into a new mode of physicality, for which there was no precedent and of which there was, as yet, no other example.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Death
  • Jesus
  • Facts

• A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

  

  Ed McBain
  • Death
  • Detective