Ed McBain Quotes
Homicide at its best stinks to high heaven because everyone walking this earth has a closet he’d prefer leaving closed and homicide rarely knocks before entering.
Ed McBain
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
Aaron Sorkin
He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao Tzu
I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.
Kage Baker
Art... is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
What is now common to all men is a mere abstract universal, an H.C.F. Highest Common Factor, and Man's conquest of himself means simply the rule of the Conditioners over the conditioned human material, the world of post-humanity which, some knowingly and some unknowingly, nearly all men in all nations are at present labouring to produce.
C. S. Lewis
A young man with dark circles under his eyes was propping himself up against a penny-in-the-slot machine. An undertaker, passing at that moment, would have looked at this young man sharply, scenting business. So would a buzzard.
P. G. Wodehouse
Above the mists on Hatheg-Kla, earth's gods sometimes dance reminiscently; for they know they are safe, and love to come from unknown Kadath in ships of clouds and play in the olden way, as they did when earth was new and men not given to the climbing of inaccessible places.
H. P. Lovecraft
..it had been fun to be able to draw in the midst of boredom and misery..
Otto Dix
'…Just you bloody hypocrites with your four wives and your ten thousand houris in heaven?…'
Anthony Burgess
Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage... It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.
Bertrand Russell
It is necessary that every thing which is harmonized, should be generated from that which is void of harmony, and that which is void of harmony from that which is harmonized. ...But there is no difference, whether this is asserted of harmony, or of order, or composition... the same reason will apply to all of these.
Aristotle
Kids my age never left California. And here I was, going to school with Aboriginal kids in a dream-like location.
Dylan Penn
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Jean Paul
You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
Bernadette Peters
When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.
David Suchet
Heaven is for every one, if you're old or if you're young
Baby, you can't kiss the past goodbye
When I saw her in the night cafe, just near by the Champs-Elysees
She looked so sad, she breaks my heart
She told me, she will take the car and drive to an unknown star
She falls in love with someone else, not me
And I know my tears will never dry, when I heard her say just, goodbye
I never said she's guilty, guilty for my love.
Dieter Bohlen
Modern Talking
Homicide at its best stinks to high heaven because everyone walking this earth has a closet he’d prefer leaving closed and homicide rarely knocks before entering.
Ed McBain
