J. Raymond Quotes

But nothing seems to do any good.

She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.

Could she *be* anymore out of my league?

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.

He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.

LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.

Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.

You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.

Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over every chapter. The best of us start from scratch with every new book.

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.

I try to stay in the best physical shape that I can because I do most of my own stunts. It looks amazing if you can do it, but I dont advocate it because you always get injured.

I'm very physical. I grew up boxing. I've done almost all of my own stunts in movies and in television.

Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

The real secret of magic is that there is no magic.

The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.

The saddest part of a broken heart Isn't the ending so much as the start The tragedy starts from the very first spark Losing your mind for the sake of your heart

Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.

Writing is hard work; its also the best job Ive ever had.

You can't succeed unless you're willing to risk failure

ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing.

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.

You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.

The first love is the difficult love.

More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.

Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.

Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.

If you're going to risk dying, there's no sense doing it wet, cold and hungry unless absolutely necessary.

I'm human. I'm going to miss shots, ... When I miss four (in a row), I've got to feel I can make the fifth one.

Neither the good nor the true is self-realizing, so it is not generally a sufficient explanation of why people believe that X is true, or of why people do Y that Y is good.

The Kantian philosophy is no more than at best a half-secularized version of such a theocratic ethics, with "Reason" in the place of God. This does not amount to much more than a change of names.

The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.

One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.

... I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of the word "combination".

(3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement by study of the original text.

Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician.

A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.

Protecting the city is my job, which doesn't translate into hatred. This is war, and in most wars, professional soldiers don't hate the enemy. Hatred can blind you in ways that mar your judgment.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.

I've been the longest-serving police commissioner in the history of the department, but it's time in my life to move on. I'm ready for new adventures, new challenges.

If you go into any department store these days, your picture is probably taken 30 times. In London there are 500,000 cameras in public spaces. You have no expectation of privacy in public spaces.

We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.

Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind.

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.