Ed McBain Quotes

The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.

Ed McBain

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• All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

  

  Bess Myerson
  • Life
  • Home
  • Mother

• We have to turn away people all the time if we don't have space.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • People
  • Time
  • Turn Away

• I had much more fun criticizing than praising.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Fun
  • Praise
  • Criticize

• It is too much to hope that I shall keep up my success. I don't ask for that. All I shall do is my best- and hope.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Hope
  • Success

• I think it is very important to keep the kids off the street and out of trouble.

  

  Amir Khan
  • Kids
  • Trouble
  • Street

• I'm well-educated person. I don't reurn the gift

  

  Michel Platini
  • Person
  • Educated

• This moment right here, me standing up here all brown with my boobs and my Thursday night of network television full of women of color, competitive women, strong women, women who own their bodies and whose lives revolve around their work instead of their men, women who are big dogs, that could only be happening right now.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Night
  • Strong
  • Moments

• I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Up
  • World
  • Creative

• I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Trying
  • Body
  • Down

• As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Book

• Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Long
  • Power
  • Week

• Ariel Pink never really existed because he was always Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, but then people started doing interviews with Ariel Pink as if Ariel Pink existed.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • People
  • Pink
  • Interviews

• If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it.

  

  Betty Eadie
  • Kindness
  • Love Is
  • Verb

• Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Experience
  • Understanding
  • Better

• I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.

  

  Harry Oppenheimer
  • South Africa
  • Economic development
  • Government's racial policies

• When I'm at home alone, I run up the stairs naked. It's quite funny.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Up
  • Home
  • Funny

• I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique

  

  Catherine Fisher
  • Way
  • Stars
  • Scar

• The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.

  

  Ed McBain
  • Stairs
  • Go Down