Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agatha Christie

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

Donald Ray Pollock

Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mark Lakeman

Most problems are simply missed opportunities. The flip side of every problem is a solution.

Ramon Hernandez

It doesn't matter who we play now, ... we got the confidence. I think this woke our team up, to flip a game like that.

Paul Maechtle

We were just gonna really run it out, and (Hart) stepped back and flipped a long one.

Walt Disney

You know, you're just not supposed to be hitting a flip wedge into that hole,

Howard Bloom

New questions can produce new scientific leaps. They can tiddlywink new flips of insight and understanding. Big ones. Paradigm shifts.

Jim Kaat

On the flip side, he's going to make the guys toe the line and play the game the right way. It will be professionally run. There won't be anything left to chance. Joe will have everything covered.

Raymond Devine

Basically, she just flipped out. She was under a lot of pressure, I guess, and whatever happened, she just snapped.

Barry Zito

Basically, I had to grab it and side flip it. I was trying to grab it with two hands and stop my momentum. In retrospect, I should have taken my glove off and used my right hand. Plays didn't go our way.

Mack Brown

He flipped the switch and took over our team. It's fun to have a mature guy who's not (just) surviving at quarterback. He's getting better every play.

Chelsea Handler

I can't be skinny all the time. I like to drink and I like to eat. I like burgers and bagels.

Oprah Winfrey

I've been stopped cold from eating another burger!

Eva Longoria

That’s not who we are as a nation, and let me tell you why: Because the Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy’s flipping burgers—she needed a tax break. But the Eva Longoria who works on movie sets does not.

Eva Longoria

The Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy's flipping burgers -- she needed a tax break,

Gigi Hadid

I've always said, 'Eat clean to stay fit, have a burger to stay sane,’

Jennifer Morrison

I love In-N-Out Burgers!

Michael Mina

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

Paul Pierce

I've never even been into those supplements or any of that. I don't even drink energy shakes. I'm not into that kind of stuff. You just get me an In-N-Out burger and some Popeye's fried chicken and I'm straight.

Johnny Vegas

I used to attract a lot of feeders. I'd be quite happy to be locked in someone's flat and fed liquidised burgers.