Kemelman Sleuth Quotes

#1. Adult novels are as ephemeral as newspapers. Children's books stay in print for decades.

Sid Fleischman

#2. But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

Omar Bongo

#3. It's hard to be in a bad mood when you're walking around looking like you're about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.

A. J. Jacobs

#4. Netherton was watching the intricate texture of her bustier, which resembled a microminiature model of some Victorian cast-iron station roof, its countless tiny panes filmed as by the coal smoke of fingerling locomotives, yet flexing as she breathed and spoke.

William Gibson

#5. I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

Maya Angelou

#6. Superstition was with me at that moment, but it was not yet her hour for complete victory.

Charlotte Bronte

#7. She'd known many men in her life but this bear of a man with a lawyer's mind, an accountant's habits, and a knight's spirit outshone them all.

Cathy Maxwell

#8. Creativity is the very source and the wonder of your experience.

Kenneth G. Mills

#9. This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

Ayn Rand

#10. To me, the most emotional thing is to see regular people wearing our clothes. Yes, sometimes I see our clothes on somebody, and I think, 'No!', but you can't stop someone in the street and say, 'Please go home and change.'

Domenico Dolce

#11. Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn't been too friendly to mine.

Charles B. Rangel

#12. The courage to conquer is indomitable will.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. I believe it lures people on to acts of terrible evil by whispering to them that they will do good. That they'll make things not just a little better but all better.

Stephen King

#14. You'll always be my Bella.

Stephenie Meyer

#15. My career decisions have nothing to do with my personal life.

Justin Timberlake