Mcbain Quotes

#1. Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.

Thomas A Kempis

#2. What if I'm just a sick animal? A creature shuffled into existence here by the random whims of evolution. Nothing more. An existence totally without inherent meaning, totally without purpose. What

Tim McBain

#3. So, here I am. Awake in the dark , twisting the knife in my wounds. What a goddamn delight life really is.

Tim McBain

#4. Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#5. Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.

Wallace Shawn

#6. As individuals, we are all just a life in a day of Wednesday.

Gillibran Brown

#7. The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.

Ed McBain

#8. Why build entirely new systems for connecting to Christ consciousness when the institutions - whether Methodist, Lutheran, or Baptist - have already been created?

Jonathan Talat Phillips

#9. It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.

Evan Hunter

#10. This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one's causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen.

Dada Bhagwan

#11. I would not regret putting a hole in your arrogant chest, only it would be deflected when it hit that piece of rock you call a heart.

Laurie McBain

#12. Any new corpses today?"
"None yet."
"Pity. I'm getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse.

Ed McBain

#13. I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.

Frances Mayes

#14. I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.

Maeve Binchy

#15. McKinty is an exciting new talent.

Ed McBain

#16. However, do not confuse distraction with avoidance. When you avoid a distressing situation, you choose not to deal with it. But when you distract yourself from a distressing situation, you still intend to deal with it in the future, when your emotions have calmed down to a tolerable level. The

Matthew McKay

#17. I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but I am an American citizen and my books are published here, so I'm also an American writer.

Isabel Allende

#18. As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

James Levine