Ed McBain Quotes
These women never cut the umbilical cord. We get raised by one woman, and then when we're ripe, we get turned over to another woman.Ed McBain
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
Zoey Deutch -
'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
Hal Sparks -
I want to stop transforming and just start being.
Ursula Burns -
When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
Samuel Dash -
Art lies by its own artifice.
Ovid
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
A. R. Ammons -
I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
Val Guest -
My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
Pat Barker -
Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
Mac Davis -
We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
Nawal El Saadawi -
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
Ban Ki-moon -
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Pablo Picasso -
By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
Every now and again I want to go to the beach and be in the sun, but that's a very rare feeling, so I could live in London, definitely.
Taylor Momsen -
Metal music is the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the idea that idiots buy cheap trash are getting ripped off.
Manfred Mann -
Twenty years ago, Bed-Stuy was shorthand for a kind of chaos and disorder in which good people had no freedom to walk, shop, play, or just sit on the front steps and talk. It was too dangerous. But today, no more, thanks to the work of those who chose lives of service and danger to help others.
James Comey
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You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.
Rachel Bilson -
As for Colt 45, I am very proud of my endorsement of the product, and it still 'Works every time.'
Billy Dee Williams -
In some cases radiation reduces the incidence of cancer.
John Cameron -
It is a fact that no man improves much after the age of 60 and after 65, most suffer a really alarming decline. I could give some examples, but at the advice of my publisher will refrain from doing so.
H. L. Mencken -
These women never cut the umbilical cord. We get raised by one woman, and then when we're ripe, we get turned over to another woman.
Ed McBain