Dibdin Quotes

#1. Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who're cut out for the job.

Michael Dibdin

#2. Well, Henry, if I were you I wouldn't worry", said the lawyer. "My belief is that your boy's born lucky, and in the long run that's better than to be born clever or rich.

W. Somerset Maugham

#3. The cause doesn't have to be righteous and battle doesn't have to be winnable; but over and over again throughout history, men have chosen to die in battle with their friends rather than to flee on their own and survive.

Sebastian Junger

#4. I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk. I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.

Maria Semple

#5. If you need help, look to clergy who do not spout their own beliefs but direct you in sincerity by using the Bible.

Monica Johnson

#6. I just had to get this stress off my chest like breast reductions.

Immortal Technique

#7. The real essence of your distinctive footprints may least be felt in your presence and much more in your absence

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. I entered a spiritual community when I was 20, which I was in for 11 year, with very strict meditative practices, with an Eastern teacher. It was very much like a religious order.

Frederick Lenz

#9. With writing music, as a general rule I'm looking for something that surprises me, that doesn't fall within what's easy for me.

John Maus

#10. Liberals are hopping mad because Rush Limbaugh referred to phony soldiers as "phony soldiers." They claim he was accusing all Democrats in the military of being "phony." True, all Democrats in the military are not phony soldiers, but all phony soldiers seem to be Democrats.

Ann Coulter

#11. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

BibleEye

#12. Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals.

Michael Dibdin

#13. Sucking at something every once in a while is how you achieve greatness in the long run.

Tony Horton

#14. You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you.

Michael Dibdin

#15. It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.

Dakota Fanning

#16. He certainly seemed to have all the qualities of a gentleman, but the interesting kind who knows exactly when to stop behaving like one.

Michael Dibdin

#17. She stared at him for a long moment. Then she put her hand in his . . . and broke his heart.

Anne Bishop

#18. Nowadays people think that history is what was on TV last night.

Michael Dibdin

#19. What is true for a given person in a given situation is not necessarily true for that person in a different situation, or for another person in the same situation, and still less if both are different.

Michael Dibdin

#20. A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

Northrop Frye

#21. The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really being killed by somebody. And this involves the investigator in trying to understand the society that the person lived in.

Michael Dibdin