Edna Buchanan Quotes

Life is a death-defying experience.

Edna Buchanan

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• Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Christmas
  • Cards

• Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Country
  • Art

• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Advice

• I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Way

• I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • German
  • National
  • Titles

• I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Too Much

• Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Star

• Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • You
  • Find
  • Shopping

• If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Talk
  • Oppression

• I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Life Story

• I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • Go
  • Sell

• In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • May
  • Return
  • Bring

• My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Job
  • Like
  • Better

• Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People

• There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Success
  • Universe

• Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.

  

  Frances Burney

• McMaster, 54, is the smartest and most capable military officer of his generation, one who has not only led American victories on the battlefields of the 1991 Gulf War and of the Iraq War, but also holds a Ph.D. in history.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • American
  • War
  • History

• I think I got an Instamatic camera when I was 8 years old, and ever since then, I've liked to record things. I don't know why. Maybe it's just to kind of try to leave some kind of record behind.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Why

• I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS... a little documentary.

  

  Asif Kapadia

• Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!

  

  Doug Davidson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Family

• I don't see how you could get used to people screaming in your face, and anyone who says different is lying.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • People
  • Different
  • Lying

• Shan stared at his glass, then lifted it under his nose. It was the closest he would knowingly get to tasting the hard liquor. It was not because it would violate the vows of the monks, which he had not taken, but because somehow it felt as though it would violate his teachers who still sat behind prison wire in Lhadrung.

  

  Eliot Pattison
  • Prison
  • Liquor
  • Monk`s

• Life is a death-defying experience.

  

  Edna Buchanan
  • Experience
  • Death
  • Life is