"It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops."

-- Ed McBain

#Character Quotes #Squad Quotes #People Quotes

“Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.”
“Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up and two down, with digital chimneys like pigs' ***** on the rooftops sending up heat and smoke into the cold trough of a windy sky. Stars hid like snipers, taking aim now and again when clouds gave them a loophole. Winter was an easy time for him to hide his secrets, for each dark street patted his shoulder and became a friend, and the gaseous eye of each lamp glowed unwinking as he passed.”
“A court is like a scene, people want to see attractive people.”
“The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.”
“I'm confident, but not so confident that I'm cocky.”
“I would instill in my team an attitude of role modeling. We run to teach other people the value of physical activity. In all things, be humble and appreciative; hurt no one; help anyone you can.”

Source : Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.
“Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen”
“The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.”

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