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.

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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 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

• 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

• What greater challenge today.. ..to disorder and insensitivity; what greater propaganda for integration than this emotionally intense, dramatic division of space? quote in 1943, discussing the art of Piet Mondrian

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • Today
  • Space

• Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgments; … But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Writing
  • Story

• I think people found out I'm just like anybody else. I've got problems, too.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Think
  • Problems

• You must remember, once more, that expectations are the blocks with which you build your reality. There are no exceptions to this rule.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Remember
  • Reality

• Literary theories will not make a writer write.

  

  Allen Wier
  • Writer
  • Make
  • Theories

• 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