Adrian McKinty Quotes

The first proper mystery novel that I read was 'Murder On the Orient Express' with a gaunt David Niven and a cherubic Peter Ustinov on the cover. 'Orient Express,' you'll recall, is the one where everyone did it, which delighted me no end, and I was immediately hooked.

Adrian McKinty

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• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Man
  • Team
  • Ingredient

• No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Inspired
  • Write
  • Terrified

• If Apple, Amazon, Netflix, or somebody else can ever blast away all the ridiculous vestiges of decades-old TV content and technology we live with today, I'll buy whatever they come up with. Until then, I'm settling for a Caavo.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Up
  • Live
  • Today

• They told me I gave the best milk mustache of anybody.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Me
  • Best
  • Told

• I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Politics

• I was always singing to myself, but I never ever performed, and I never told anyone I liked to sing. So it was a definitely a new adventure going in to audition for 'Glee.'

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Adventure

• Taiwan must find its own way. We have been emphasizing too much the manufacturing business. We have to become more high-tech, more innovative, and provide more value. We can't always insist on the value of low-cost production. We have to invest more in R&D to get high-value business.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Business
  • High
  • Value

• When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Change
  • First
  • Weather

• I did kindergarten twice because I was so shy.

  

  Zendaya
  • Because
  • Shy
  • Twice

• I never wanted to be a playwright.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Playwright

• I honestly don't diet or work out regularly. I'm just always running around - you'll never catch me having a day on the sofa.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Running
  • Day

• Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Imagination

• Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Small
  • Worst
  • Getting

• Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Creation
  • Group
  • Imperialism

• I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Author

• 'Don’t preach,' said Florentine violently. She was beginning to see the maze of lies and deceptions that lay before her.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • She
  • Beginning
  • Lies

• Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Alone

• Maybe you ride a different wave. Maybe you catch another ray of the sun That I've just begun to feel.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Different
  • Sun

• Bob:  The inquisition in Europe was masterminded by the Jesuits… Only this time instead of Dominican monks wearing rives, the Vatican used the Gestapo wearing Nazi uniforms.

  

  Jack Chick
  • Time

• The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.

  

  John Woolman
  • Time
  • Help
  • Peace

• In 250 years, reading and writing will have turned out to be a fad.

  

  Bran Ferren
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Fad

• This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Man
  • Suffering

• My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Kiss

• The first proper mystery novel that I read was 'Murder On the Orient Express' with a gaunt David Niven and a cherubic Peter Ustinov on the cover. 'Orient Express,' you'll recall, is the one where everyone did it, which delighted me no end, and I was immediately hooked.

  

  Adrian McKinty