Sarah Weinman Quotes

Although we might think of Holmes as the Ur-sleuth, the seminal inspiration for many writers comes not from the chronicles of Baker Street but from the intricately plotted novels of Charles Dickens and his colleague Wilkie Collins, who in works like 'Bleak House' and 'The Moonstone' established the modern, character-driven mystery novel.

Sarah Weinman

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When I started in the comic book business, 'Art Of' books were strictly the provenance of the greats, like Rembrandt and Da Vinci. But times change, and so do attitudes. Now the comic is considered an art form, and I hope 'A Life in Words and Pictures' contributes a little to that art form's history.

Jim Starlin

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When I was growing up, my dad was away a lot. He did a lot of work in crisis zones, places like Uganda or Rwanda.

Joe Alwyn

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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

John Burroughs

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I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.

Melinda Clarke

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Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

John Steinbeck

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To me, 'Glee' is totally fantastic.

Stephen Karam

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I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.

Spencer Johnson

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I think that I'm, like, an introverted extrovert. At the end of the day, when I get done doing hair at the salon or shooting a day of 'Queer Eye' or whatever, I definitely want to come home and, like, order pasta and sit with my cat or just one person or no people.

Jonathan Van Ness

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A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

Derek Walcott

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So many of the things I talk about in 'Reality Hunger' seem to be the things that 'The Thing About Life' does - things like risk, contradiction, compression, mixing modes of attack from the memoristic gesture to data-crunching.

David Shields

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You go to a poem to get the mystery - and sometimes you go to get more confused.

Brenda Hillman

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I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

Brittany Murphy

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