Ross MacDonald Quotes

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

Ross MacDonald

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SurpriseRunStructureThroughUp

When you're a stand-up comic, you live and die by what you say on stage. There's no director or writer or producer who can tell you what to say and not to say. Once in a while, a club owner will ask a comic to work clean, or not say something, but that's few and far between.

Maz Jobrani

WorkLiveDieYouSayWill

I gotta respect our sport, my division, and the guys that are fighting in it. That's what I gotta do.

Max Holloway

RespectFightingDivisionOurGuys

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.

Robert Green Ingersoll

MenRichPropertyOwnFewThem

I always wanted to be the champion, and I had belief in myself that I could achieve it. But along the way, of course, you've also got to be a realist. You lose a couple of fights here and there, and you think maybe it's not going to happen.

Michael Bisping

MyselfChampionThinkYouLoseWay

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

Sojourner Truth

StarsSpaceMoonLookDownFar Away

My daughter thinks my shows suck.

Shonda Rhimes

DaughterSuckThinksShows

I started using the Internet when I was 12 years old. I would go into chat rooms and flirt. It was the beginning of the Internet for young people.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

BeginningPeopleInternetGoYoung

Because a lot of people are hurting economically and being shafted by the very wealthy, it's been possible here in the United States of America to organize them and persuade them that to elect a nincompoop like Donald Trump is actually in their best interest. When clearly it isn't.

Roger Waters

BestPeopleAmericaPossibleClearly

Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.

Rob Glaser

TrustPeopleRealityDoorsCustomer

With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.

Mary McDonnell

ExperiencePeopleImpactPlayBeyond

You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.

Jason Calacanis

InnovationVisionHumbleDaySmall

If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.

Donna Brazile

MeThinkActingI CanWayCritic

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