E. C. Bentley Quotes
Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.
As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.
And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.
No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.
In Vegas, everyone lets their hair down a little bit and it's a little looser. You expect to see some different stuff and hear some different stuff. Even the red carpet is different here.
That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.
George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.
When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.
I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.
Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.
To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.
Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.
I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.
Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable.
In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot.
Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.
I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.
I write horror because I enjoy it. I'm endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don't have much choice. This is the way my mind works.
An enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career.
More simply said, the finite does not add to the infinite but merely expresses the power of the infinite in a limited mode.
The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated.
The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates
No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.
In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.
It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.
Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.
These last years are as important as any that have gone before, nor will any other of our years vitiate or excuse them. The struggle continues.
Dancing may not be the perfect substitute for love, human love, but it certainly requires all the time and thought and energy that could otherwise be dedicated to love.
A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.
A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.
I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.
But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!
Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.
Mr. Cupples came out of his reverie. "I think, " he said, "I will have milk and soda-water." "Speak lower!" urged Trent. "The head-waiter has a weak heart, and he might hear you.
Bentley mounted Silverwood, look down at his parents, and launched the powerful steed into the kingdom…a kingdom waiting for one young knight to discover the truth of a Stranger.
If I tell you something Leah, can you keep a secret?" Conor pressed a callused finger across a petroglyph of a deer like a blind man etching memory into his brain.
We are all broken in some way. But it’s all the shattered pieces that give us depth. Like stained glass, it’s how the pieces and colors fit together that truly makes us beautiful.
George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.