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
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
I was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called 'Top of the Lake,' that was shot by Jane Campion, who's a beautiful native New Zealander and famous film director. The role I was playing was very intense, and they shaved half my hair off. So, I looked like this post-apocalyptic character.
Jay Ryan
'O gin I find anither ladye,' He said wi' sighs and tears, 'I wot my coortin' sall not be Anither thirty years:'For gin I find a ladye gay, Exactly to my taste, I'll pop the question, aye or nay, In twenty years at maist.'
Lewis Carroll
God never consults your past to make your future.
Christine Caine
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
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
Johann Sebastian Bach
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
