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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• I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Work
  • Being
  • Reputation

• What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Positive
  • Blood
  • White

• I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Up
  • Time
  • House

• It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

  

  Zac Efron
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Me

• I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • History
  • Think
  • Deep

• Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • True
  • Think

• He who knows himself is enlightened.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Himself
  • Enlightened
  • He

• 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
  • Life
  • Women
  • Art

• 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
  • World
  • Men
  • Present

• 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
  • Up
  • Business
  • Eyes

• 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
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Dance

• '…Just you bloody hypocrites with your four wives and your ten thousand houris in heaven?…'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Heaven

• 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
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Passion

• 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
  • Reason
  • Difference
  • Order

• Kids my age never left California. And here I was, going to school with Aboriginal kids in a dream-like location.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • School
  • Kids
  • Age

• Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

  

  Jean Paul

• We're living in hard times.

  

  Antonio Banderas

• Die glücklichen Pessimisten! Welche Freude empfinden sie, so oft sie bewiesen haben, daß es keine Freude gibt.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Die

• Acceptance and its counterpart, understanding, are crucial to achieving relationship harmony. It is sacred love, the highest form of love, and like most things worth striving for in life, it requires patience, commitment, personal responsibility, and practice.

  

  Arielle Ford
  • Relationship
  • Responsibility
  • Practice

• So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different. Heaven forbid they would have to learn something new.

  

  Cheech Marin
  • Different
  • Fear
  • Taken

• There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dream
  • Science
  • Earth

• If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.

  

  William Morris
  • Epic
  • Tapestry
  • Chaps

• 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
  • Heaven
  • Entering
  • Homicide