Ed McBain Quotes

I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.

Ed McBain

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• Lesbian
• Sexual Preference

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• Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Act

• Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

  

  Quintilian
  • Late
  • Begin
  • Too Late

• The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Heart
  • Open
  • Page

• Sure enough, it wasn't long until I got a call, telling me I had a scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Telling

• Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Music
  • Home
  • Small

• I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.

  

  Kage Baker

• Procrastination is the thief of time.

  

  Edward Young
  • Time
  • Procrastination

• What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Universe

• Ginger: Oh, jeez. Well, uh... maybe you should talk to someone.Cynthia: I thought I was.

  

  Alison Bechdel

• The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea. Hours that rejoice and regret for a span, Born with a man's breath, mortal as he; Loves that are lost ere they come to birth, Weeds of the wave, without fruit upon earth. I lose what I long for, save what I can, My love, my love, and no love for me!

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Life
  • Long
  • Earth

• I loathe the word 'celebrity,' and I hope I'm not a diva. Whenever I see diva-ish behaviour, I just leave the room; I find it appalling. You should always try to be civil to people.

  

  David Harewood
  • People
  • Hope
  • Celebrity

• No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.

  

  Joel Salatin

• I had this mentality that I had to go out to everyone's show so everyone at the end of the week would come to mine - that I had to go out and rub elbows, find exposure. A small part of that is true. But if something is good, people will notice when you put it out.

  

  Margo Price
  • People
  • Good
  • True

• I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that the majority have some sense of what it means to be one or the other.

  

  Doug Stanhope
  • Political
  • Party
  • Comedy

• At a young age, it is hard to be different from the crowd. I want to encourage young girls that it is cool to be different. Young women should be pleased they have something unique and make the most of their talent.

  

  Bryony Shaw
  • Different
  • Women
  • Age

• When I'm not shooting, I'm a leggings and boots girl. I like cute and casual - for me, it's all about feeling good and being comfortable.

  

  Chrissy Metz
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Feeling

• People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

  

  Jamaica Kincaid
  • People

• Johnny 'Fairplay' Dalton manufactured a lie about his dear grandmother dying in order to win a challenge. This is one of the best villain moments of 'Survivor' ever! This lie was pre-planned, evil, and perfectly played out.

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • Moments
  • Evil
  • Challenge

• Unlike people of my generation, my children and my grandchildren have grown up living with, knowing, people who were outwardly gay and lesbian. And they have learned that they're just like us... And when you see that they're just like us, the rationale for discrimination melts away.

  

  David Boies
  • People
  • Up
  • Children

• I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don't speak it fluently. I'm ashamed of that.

  

  Michael Trevino
  • Together
  • Speak
  • Ashamed

• We're being held to ransom by these pinstripe Scargills...

  

  Vince Cable

• I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragraph—each sentence, even—as I go along.

  

  William Styron
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Writing

• Violence does even justice unjustly.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Justice
  • Violence

• I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.

  

  Ed McBain
  • Ashamed
  • Lesbian
  • Sexual Preference