Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jo Nesbo

Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.

Jo Nesbo

Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.

Michael Koryta

Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.

Noah Baumbach

I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once.

Megan Abbott

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

Michael Connelly

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

James Ellroy

I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music.

Agatha Christie

It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

Jesper Parnevik

I would say it's like Pinehurst but maybe that's giving it too much credit.

David Jones

Greenspan is giving the markets a reality check. Good for him.

Tony Wingen

He's a force. We were willing to give up some inside points as long as we were not giving up 3-pointers. We did all that we needed to do to win.

Jeanine Pirro

Today is about thanking them for what they're doing in advance, giving them the support they need to go through the school year.

Ryan Kwanten

One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look.

Ryan Lochte

One thing I won't do: I won't give up on love.

Russell Baker

The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess.

Tyler Hilton

Music comes out of me most naturally and would be the hardest to give up forever.

Tyler Oakley

If you are just yourself, that's when people start gravitating towards you because nobody else can be you except you. Be authentic, don't give up, and start today.

Chris Bucknam

I think it looks to be an outstanding stadium.

Matt Osborne

He didn't get many looks at the basket. But he picked it up defensively and he had six rebounds and six steals.

Bill Cowher

He can time things up and be very explosive. It looks sometimes like he's walking and not moving, but he can go from Point A to Point B very quickly. He's a very sudden player, and I think that's what makes him unique.

Quvenzhane Wallis

Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

Frank Taylor

He's a big, strong, really good-bodied horse, and he looks really fast.

Mark DiCamillo

I think it's a two-step process and it looks like he's successfully getting people over in terms of step one to the undecided column. But there's a segment of voters who are withholding judgment. They know who Schwarzenegger is, but they are not sure.

Mark Billingham

I think women tend to write about how violence feels, whereas men tend to write about what violence looks like.

Alex Jones

Every time we look, they're killing Jews.

Craig Stevenson

I think we?re pretty close. It looks very good.