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.

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.

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.

Kate Mosse

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

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.

Judy Greer

'Citizen Ruth' I saw when I was in college, and I really flipped out over it. I just knew I wanted to work with the person who made that movie.

Elle King

I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That's how I live my life. I can roll with the boys.

Edward M. Lerner

Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data.

Ann Brashares

It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.

Aml Ameen

Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.

Howard Bloom

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

Brian Skerry

I flipped through a book on harp seals in the late 1970s and saw images of them swimming in emerald green pools of water surrounded by huge sheets of ice. Right then I was hooked, and I knew this was a story I wanted to do.

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.

Chelsea Handler

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

Jennifer Morrison

I love In-N-Out Burgers!

Gigi Hadid

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

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,

Lady Gaga

Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger

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.

Oprah Winfrey

I've been stopped cold from eating another burger!

Michael Mina

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