Mina Loy Quotes

#1. Dacians consider Trehan the kingdom's sword, Viktor its wrath, Stelian its sentinel, and Lothaire its cunning. Our people see Mina and me as the beating heart of Dacia.

Kresley Cole

#2. When I first went to Las Vegas, I thought I would never go to Las Vegas; you can't get anything. But then I realized that they were trucking in almost everything; you could get a lot of your product, and I think that's why a lot of chefs actually went there.

Michael Mina

#3. The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina's view of Diego.)

Maria Grazia Swan

#4. Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.

Denise Mina

#5. I can only take one step at a time, whether I am running or living. Today is a good day. This is my life and it's happening now.

Mina Samuels

#6. I'm sorry that you are hurting. It's because of me that you are even here in the first place. I offered to get those passes so I could get to know you. There is something about you that feels so comforting and familiar, and I'm not sure why.

Chanda Hahn

#7. You have to take your ego out of it and say, do I want people to be obsequious to me or do I want to write good books? If it's the latter, you have to take criticism. It's annoying, but that's how to do good stuff; listen to other people.

Denise Mina

#8. I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.

Denise Mina

#9. In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.

Denise Mina

#10. Luke caught Mina's chin in his left hand and turned her face toward him. 'Guess what, sweetheart?'
'What?'
He grinned. 'I'm keeping you.

Cynthia Eden

#11. There are two ways to look at how life works and how people find their paths. One way is you take your time and try different things out. The other is you settle in early. I was into cooking very early.

Michael Mina

#12. Wow, that's huge, Mina thought. How am I supposed to carry that around? She watched in amazement when the book, as if hearing her thoughts, slowly began to shrink into a smaller, thinner book.

Chanda Hahn

#13. You haunt me, Mina. Even before I knew you, I felt your absence.

Ava Zavora

#14. Whenever I let him in he would halt on the threshold drawing the whole of his luminous life up into his smile.

Mina Loy

#15. Uh-uh, I would rather got hrough the front door and tackle the giants than have to life-saving-suck-kiss you for five minutes.

Chanda Hahn

#16. There's always room to improve in a restaurant. A restaurant is better or worse every day than it was the day before. It's impossible not to be, because it's human.

Michael Mina

#17. Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas.

Michael Mina

#18. I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

Denise Mina

#19. There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

Bram Stoker

#20. There is no Space or Time Only intensity, And tame things Have no immensity

Mina Loy

#21. People are very frightened in publishing at the moment. Nobody knows what sells. More so now because the market's changing so fundamentally because of Kindle and electronic publishing. It's a fundamental shift in the way stories are put out into the world.

Denise Mina

#22. He wants your soul' from Mina Harker: The Curse of the Vampire

Louise Lake

#23. I'm not a nice man. Not a good one. And you won't like how I want to play.

Mina Carter

#24. Chefs become attracted to being able to get product and then clientele - those are the two things that attract you as a chef.

Michael Mina

#25. Mina wanted some of the kind of love Momma gave to her children, where love was the first and deepest thing, and the questions came later and the answers wouldn't matter much measured up against the love.

Cynthia Voigt

#26. Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.

Denise Mina

#27. In my heart I'm just a lucky waitress.

Denise Mina

#28. I know, but still. Hear this now, Mina," he paused. "You are the truest of truths and in some alternate universe where people could be whatever they wanted, you would be Queen.

Chelsea Ballinger

#29. I liked to screw around in the kitchen when I was a kid. But I started cooking when I was 15.

Michael Mina

#30. The policemen had clearly been there all morning: four big white tea mugs from the canteen were drained and drip-stained, red-and-gold wrappers from caramel log biscuits were folded into interesting shapes on one side of the table, rolled up into tight little balls on the other.

Denise Mina

#31. Nan, I'm cursed."
"Yeah, I know. We all are." Nan kicked her legs back and forth and grabbed a magazine from Mina's nightstand. "It's called being a teenager.

Chanda Hahn

#32. With chefs, the problem is we have to be very confident because people are looking at us for that. So pretty soon, you think you're a plumber, you think you're an electrician, you think you're an accountant.

Michael Mina

#33. Brody spun, and Mina stared over his shoulder to see an impossibly large black wolf only feet away. The wolf's mouth was opened wide, teeth glaring as he lunged for Brody's throat.

Chanda Hahn

#34. This was how a manang self-destructed, probably. Not with drugs or alcohol, but cholesterol.

Mina V. Esguerra

#35. Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?

Denise Mina

#36. She knew that everything he did was wrong and the fault was hers. He pulled his notebook out of his pocket, stupidly.

Denise Mina

#37. People love steak all over the United States.

Michael Mina

#38. There is no half-measure--NO scratching on the surface of the rubbish heap of tradition will bring about Reform, the only method is Absolute Demolition

Mina Loy

#39. She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass.

Mina Loy

#40. DIE in the past. Live in the future.

Mina Loy

#41. When designing a kitchen, always keep in mind the social aspect.

Michael Mina

#42. I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.

Denise Mina

#43. My calendar lately is full of work. And you.

Mina V. Esguerra

#44. I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature.

Denise Mina

#45. I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

Denise Mina

#46. I loved the cooking; that was what I was passionate about, but getting to watch the guests eat - because you could see everything from the kitchen - just watching people eat and looking at the plates when they came back, just understanding, this is such an amazing job.

Michael Mina

#47. My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to tell a good tale or no one is going to listen. You have to make it entertaining and interesting. That's how I learned to tell stories.

Denise Mina

#48. If Morrow worked with herself she'd try and sit a few desks away.

Denise Mina

#49. I'm not scared. The only thing that scares me is God. And guess what, Mina? God is not a fanatic.

Marjan Kamali

#50. If he hadn't seen a woman half naked before, then he seriously needed to get laid.

Mina Carter

#51. My friend, we are not dressed for going into town," I insisted, heading him off in another direction.

"Why?" asked Insel in bewildered politeness. "You look as lovely as you always do.

Mina Loy

#52. LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.

Mina Loy

#53. Bringing your kids into the kitchen doesn't require you to be a top chef; only time and maybe a willingness to get a little messy.

Michael Mina

#54. Mina and I fear to be idle, so we have been over all the diaries again and again. Somehow, although the reality seem greater each time, the pain and the fear seem less.

Bram Stoker

#55. A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

Denise Mina

#56. And I had about a hundred friend requests. Shit was getting real.

Mina Vaughn

#57. LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

Mina Loy

#58. I want to kick Grandma in the penis,

Denise Mina

#59. Every time I find something redeeming about you the jerk side messes it up.

Mina Carter

#60. You have to always remember who your guest is, and that's who we cater to.

Michael Mina

#61. If Sean's voice is layers of wood, and Mina Ma's is the voice a copper pot, then Mathew Mercer's is the voice of a wild animal. I suddenly think of a movie Ammara and I loved when we were little, and I think of Scar, the lion who murdered his brother to become king. That kind of voice.

Sangu Mandanna

#62. Context overrides. In different contexts, cells do different things.

Mina Bissell

#63. The PPA had a lot of predator-type shifters. Their natural aggression and hardiness made them excellent operatives few wanted to take on in a fight.

Mina Carter

#64. Mina's mouth dropped open, and he bent his head as if to kiss her. She jammed her gun barrel under his chin. He grinned.

Meljean Brook

#65. Mina penned the jubilant words into her blue spiral notebook with her favorite ballpoint pen. She faithfully used the same pen when writing all of her entries in the hope that

Chanda Hahn

#66. His life had no meaning. It was intolerable. The last three decades had been a hollow waste of time. Hands

Denise Mina

#67. Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.
Mina

David Almond

#68. Lord Milles stands before the One God, now, Galdar," Mina said, "where we will all stand one day. It is not for us to judge him.

Margaret Weis

#69. In the best tradition of kidnapping, she appeared to be in some kind of run down warehouse. Sheesh, didn't the bad guys ever watch the movies?

Mina Carter

#70. I'm afraid you're going to have a rather boring couple of weeks, Mr. Smith. If I were you, I'd buy a couple of good books. You're going to need them.

Mina Carter

#71. I just didn't know where he'd come from.
Or, as Mina would no doubt say, from where he'd come.

Colleen Gleason

#72. The song was "I See the Light", another Tangled number. Aaron sang the male part of the duet, and Walter's friend Rose did a less-than-Mina soprano, but mostly the music fell away in the brilliant presence of the two young men on the dance floor.

Heidi Cullinan

#73. You wear your armor even to dinner, Lady Wilhelmina?"
"Of course I wear armor. I am sitting with a pirate, a mercenary, an adventurer, and a bounder. If a shot is not fired tonight, I daresay that your reputations are nothing but lies.

Meljean Brook

#74. And "Immortality"
mildews ...
in the museums of the moon

Mina Loy

#75. I love San Francisco; it's very hard to compete with San Francisco when it comes to availability of product, but one thing you can't replace about Las Vegas or Miami is people are walking in the door and they want to have a good time.

Michael Mina

#76. Ah, the meek. Playing the long game. Sneaky bastards.

Denise Mina

#77. Of course you do things differently in your 30s and 40s than in your 20s.

Michael Mina

#78. I like complicated dishes but also appreciate simple foods.

Michael Mina

#79. Why do you have a picture of my mentor, Siri, on the shelf above your fireplace? - Evaline.
...
That's not your mentor... That's my mother, Desiree. - Mina

Colleen Gleason

#80. The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.

Denise Mina

#81. Later.
It is done. My will is made, and all complete. Mina if she survive is my sole heir. If it should not be so, then the others who have been so good to us shall have remainder.

Bram Stoker

#82. To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

Denise Mina

#83. She studied his clothes, his top hat. "And you've just come from Parliament? How are you finding that?"
"It's much like piracy. You tell your enemies that if they don't fall in line, you'll leave them to die.

Meljean Brook

#84. In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story.

Denise Mina

#85. Lamont, like the judge?"
He tipped his head in embarrassment and looked away quickly. She smiled kindly at him. The two great sources of shame: privilege and penury.

Denise Mina

#86. I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food.

Michael Mina

#87. Anything and everything made her think about him. He was so much a part of her, embedded in her soul. [Mina and Diego]

Maria Grazia Swan

#88. Mina, trust me, it's better if we don't discuss this anymore. Words have power and it makes it that much easier for the Story to find you.

Chanda Hahn

#89. Sheesh, I'm surprised you've survived out here this long. Tell me, are you normal for a warrior or are you like a special day-release case or something?" "What?

Mina Carter

#90. With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I wanted to do something a bit more holistic, so there were lots of different points of view, and I wanted to look at aspects of crime that you don't tend to look at.

Denise Mina

#91. I love bleak things.

Denise Mina

#92. There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another one.

Denise Mina

#93. Even after everyone had gone home, the house was filled with the good time they'd had, as if it could linger in the air like the voices and music lingered in memory. Mina wrapped the memory up and put it in her heart; there was a quiet gladness, deep like a tree and tall in her

Cynthia Voigt

#94. I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.

Karen Essex

#95. Mina felt as if she were on cloud nine and three-quarters,

Chanda Hahn

#96. It still stung, knowing that he would rather see me with someone else than give me my moment, but I had to be mature about it. It wasn't about me.

Mina V. Esguerra

#97. The part that I know I enjoy most is the restaurants. You can't do everything, you know? For me, the priority has been being deeply involved in my restaurants and figuring out different ways to make them run better.

Michael Mina

#98. The book I made it big with in the U.S. was my fourth book, 'Sanctum.' My novels sell really well both there and in Canada, so once a year I do a promotional tour, visiting a different city every two days, doing book readings and signings.

Denise Mina

#99. She came to find it meaningless, because it was as if that was the reason why people didn't bother to figure her out. She was attractive in that inaccessible way, and people seemed fine with it. "No,

Mina V. Esguerra

#100. Sorry, kitty, I think they're all out of balls of wool.

Mina Carter