Edna Buchanan Quotes

The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

Edna Buchanan

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• Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Character
  • Success
  • Way

• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• 'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • Real
  • Job

• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Guidance
  • Professor

• That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Interesting
  • New
  • New York

• Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Me
  • Animals

• I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Husband

• One day, I want to make a PG film.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Day
  • Film

• Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Career
  • Me

• Revenge is the sweetest morsel to the mouth, that ever was cooked in hell.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Revenge

• Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin, Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Lust

• I'm sorry about the phone call; and waking you.I know that it is late,But thank you for talking, because I needed to.Some things just can't wait.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Sorry

• How can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn?

  

  Alanis Morissette
  • Words

• We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Real
  • Done
  • May

• In middle school, you're figuring out how you're affecting people, and sometimes you're affecting people negatively. And what sucks is that it can affect people for their whole lives. I didn't realize I was a part of that.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • School

• I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.

  

  Elvis Stojko
  • Together

• 'Under the Poppy' is the love story of Istvan and Rupert, lovers and friends from childhood, who've been parted by jealousy - and a secret betrayal by Istvan's sister, Decca, who also loves Rupert, with whom she runs the brothel called Under the Poppy, where the floozies cater to every taste from saucy to peculiar.

  

  Kathe Koja
  • She
  • Friends
  • Childhood

• I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • I Believe

• I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.

  

  Bonnie Raitt
  • People
  • Truth
  • Girl

• When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Truth
  • Hand
  • Hands

• People always think that loyalty is laudable. People are always saying that we must remain faithful to tradition, to family, to our class, to our ideas. Of course not! That would be equivalent to zero brain activity. If you really want to think, to seek truth, to advance intellectually, you must turn your back on clichés, on preconceived ideas - even those belonging to your spiritual family. For an intellectual, his true duty is not to fidelity, but to infidelity.

  

  Bernard-Henri Levy
  • Truth
  • Tradition
  • Loyalty

• He had doubts about the utility of examination on subjects which had been crammed for the occasion. He wanted common sense.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

• The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

  

  Edna Buchanan
  • Truth
  • Moving
  • Mystery