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Vicki Delany

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My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any ...
JO NESBO Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve be...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better ...
LINWOOD BARCLAY Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime wr...
KARIN SLAUGHTER A Poem without rhyme is the greatest crime.
DR HITESH C SHETH Writing a book is not a crime.
ALEXANDER AHNDORIL I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest busi...
PETER KIRK One of the hot areas right now is tracking down cyber crime and cyber terrorism.
DANIEL HAMBURGER War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetra...
ALFRED ADLER The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.
ALEX COX The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime
EMMA GOLDMAN A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.
LUCAN Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
SIR CECIL WALTER HARDY BEATON Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
SIR CECIL BEATON Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD For man's greatest crime is to have been born.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the c...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the c...
H. G. WELLS One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if yo...
ERIC HOLDER The lack of Christians taking an active position leads to the escalation of corruption, crime, lawle...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowal...
CAMILLA LACKBERG Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.
CECIL BEATON This could be a crime of opportunity where someone saw it, hot-wired it and drove it off,
JEFF HAWKINS The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about sin...
BILL BENNETT The threat of organized crime recognizes no borders, and efforts against any gangs or individuals in...
ALEX ATTWOOD Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the ...
MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE The only published, peer-reviewed study of secondary effects ... found that areas surrounding adult ...
MATT BARTLE The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not fo...
WILKIE COLLINS Failure is not a crime, ... The crime is not trying.
RON DELLUMS What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you op...
S. J. ROZAN crime and crime rates are not increasing because of the society, but because of such a society is cr...
DEVASKI The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than rea...
JACQUES BARZUN The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
DANIEL WOODRELL The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.
JOHN F. KERRY Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.
BLANCHE LINCOLN The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
RAMSEY CLARK Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for...
GARRY DISHER In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.
DIANE MOTT DAVIDSON If crime is successful,then it is not a crime
GURUNATH SHINDE Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
WARREN E. BURGER What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intellige...
L. NEIL SMITH A lot of it is not the actual crime, it's the fear of crime. So we need to keep that in perspective ...
DAVID PURDY Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from...
KARIN SLAUGHTER The initial information indicates that organized crime was involved in the killings of these two pub...
RUBEN AGUILAR This incident proves how powerful an influx and influence of crime writing from other countries has ...
BARBARA PETERS Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared ...
CAMILLA LACKBERG Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.
JOHN GARAMENDI Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
TONY BLAIR ...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those t...
JOHN F. KENNEDY There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the goo...
HAKAN NESSER Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and th...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Poverty is the mother of crime.
MARCUS AURELIUS The crime of loving is forgetting.
MAURICE CHEVALIER Crime is a product of social excess.
VLADIMIR LENIN Crime is a product of social excess.
LENIN, VLADIMIR Crime is a product of social excess
VLADIMIR LENIN The greatest crime you can commit in the desert is to find water and remain silent about it.
VIKRANT PARSAI No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime
OSCAR WILDE With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.
LORD ROBERT ARTHUR TALBOT CECIL SALISBURY, 3RD MARQUIS OF SALISBURY I always wondered if I could write a novel, so I decided to try. I thought about writing a crime sto...
GENE HUNT Crime has no color. Crime has no type. Crime has no gender. The reason why crime doesn't end. It is ...
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS It's organized crime. You say [just] a bunch of pimps and prostitutes, but when you string the threa...
CHIP BURRUS The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind
JOSEPH CONRAD FinCEN directs financial institutions to file suspicious activity reports (SARs) to inform law enfor...
PERIANNE BORING This is a hate crime and should be investigated as a hate crime.
CANDACE GINGRICH A crime versus people is a crime versus God. It undercuts what it means to be a part of a caring wor...
DAVID LESLIE You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innoc...
EDWIN MEESE Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
CHARLES H. PARKHURST Behind every crime is a story of sadness.
ENRIQUE PENA NIETO Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime.
HENRY LEE Character assassination of a politician is a victimless crime
DEAN CAVANAGH Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Joseph Wambaugh is a hero to today's crime writers, and 'Hollywood Station' will school them all: to...
MICHAEL PIETSCH Silence against cruelty is the biggest crime in the world, and we do.
JUNAID RAZA I've always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It's the most heinous crime, and...
CLINT EASTWOOD It may appear a low-level crime, but it's the kind of crime that seriously affects the lives of peop...
DONALD ANDERSON Time is with you... but as for the crime in that time... I am ain't fucking sure.
DEYTH BANGER Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.
DUCHESS OF WINDSOR I don't think the biggest crime is to not sympathize with people. I think the biggest crime is t...
MORTEN TYLDUM If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you shoul...
STEVEN PINKER Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
ARISTOTLE Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
RUSH LIMBAUGH The mother of revolution and crime is poverty
ARISTOTLE the best form of organised crime is government
HENRY KIPLING This type of crime doesn't happen in front of eyewitnesses. This type of crime happens in secret.
BARBARA WHALEY Obstruction of Congress in our work is a crime.
JASON CHAFFETZ Hearing from the writers is very useful to apprentice writers. They gain inspiration and learn more ...
ANNA MONARDO A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the l...
MARK TWAIN Crime? What crime? ... My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman ... and...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their wal...
PETER KROPOTKIN The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take peopl...
DARYL GATES the only candidate with a history of supporting the crime fighters in our city.
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VICKI DELANY The CWC is a professional organization for professional writers. Non-published writers are welcome a...
VICKI DELANY On a personal basis, when I decided to become a writer, about the last reason I did it was because I...
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DANA DELANY I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life.
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DANA DELANY I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason...
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DANA DELANY I have faith in my imperfections!
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DANA DELANY In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thi...
DANA DELANY I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easil...
DANA DELANY If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, w...
MARTIN DELANY We must make an issue, create an event, and establish a national position for ourselves: and never m...
MARTIN DELANY A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-h...
MARTIN DELANY Holy Hell! That was totally badass
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SHANNON DELANY Every people should be originators of their own destiny.
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MARTIN DELANY You sure are quick to strip, boy,” Dad said, clearly
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SHANNON DELANY Max,' I said, looking up at him, 'I love the Russian heritage you guys are so willing to share, but ...
SHANNON DELANY You know, considering your IQ, you're really socially retarded sometimes.
SHANNON DELANY With the advent of DVD, you can watch it whenever you want to,
DANA DELANY There are only so many stories, and half of that has to do with the execution of it and half of it h...
DANA DELANY There is so little time. We need to make every moment count.
SHANNON DELANY We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, a...
VICKI LAWRENCE To be a Jew is a destiny.
VICKI BAUM Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
VICKI BAUM You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
VICKI BAUM A woman who is loved always has success.
VICKI BAUM I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
VICKI LAWRENCE We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and yo...
VICKI LAWRENCE When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off th...
VICKI LAWRENCE The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were real...
VICKI LAWRENCE It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to p...
VICKI LAWRENCE Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Bur...
VICKI LAWRENCE People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless th...
VICKI LAWRENCE Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
VICKI LAWRENCE Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
VICKI LAWRENCE I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a prett...
VICKI LAWRENCE Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take ou...
VICKI CORONA Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two hu...
VICKI BAUM Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
VICKI BAUM You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
VICKI BAUM Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
VICKI BAUM Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
VICKI LAWRENCE Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career ...
VICKI LAWRENCE I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.
VICKI LAWRENCE It's always good to play tennis with a better player to bring out the best in you.
VICKI LAWRENCE There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!
VICKI BAUM There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can ...
VICKI LAWRENCE I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
VICKI LAWRENCE I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
VICKI LAWRENCE When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capi...
VICKI GOLDBERG You will always be your child's favorite toy
VICKI LANSKY It was just everyone in fellowship together.
VICKI SHARP Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and sa...
VICKI LAWRENCE When Justin died and we got the call offering the carriage, I immediately asked for Mike.
VICKI BOSLEY My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
VICKI LAWRENCE Brian has a complete game. He serves extremely well. His ground strokes are excellent, volleys are s...
VICKI BROWNING They hadn't eaten for three days when we got to them. They had no blankets, nothing. They were sleep...
VICKI CINTRA Mark was inside, in a small bathroom by the entry,
VICKI CROMPTON We do anticipate his return, but we don't have a timetable.
VICKI FLOTTA I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.
VICKI LAWRENCE We wanted a first-degree murder conviction, and now we have no other appellate issues which could ca...
VICKI MONROE We want to build networks with physicians and find collaborative physicians who understand we aren't...
VICKI MCMAHON the end of a show biz legacy.
VICKI LAWRENCE I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they sai...
VICKI LAWRENCE The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity.
VICKI BAUM What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and L...
VICKI BAUM It was the perfect mix of ingredients for West Nile.
VICKI KRAMER We hear all the time when we go up to the Hill and start talking to congressmen that they don't hear...
VICKI ARROYO The picture they paint ? much higher sea levels with mind-boggling implications for entire communiti...
VICKI ARROYO We're going to need all forms of energy production, including more coal and nuclear. Despite the Bus...
VICKI ARROYO The report represents a pragmatic and meaningful action plan to reduce emissions.
VICKI ARROYO Voluntary programs that are aimed at reducing emissions...are offset by the growth because there are...
VICKI ARROYO As of now, we don't even have required reporting in this country of greenhouse gas emissions. The pr...
VICKI ARROYO It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitmen...
VICKI ARROYO What we propose is changing that to a greenhouse gas focus program and having cars and light trucks ...
VICKI ARROYO Improving energy efficiency is the easiest thing that we could do and companies tell us cost savings...
VICKI ARROYO This study underscores the need to take swift, meaningful actions at home and abroad to address clim...
VICKI ARROYO There is nothing on God's green earth that someone won't complain about including both God and green...
VICKI MYRON There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
VICKI BAUM Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings
VICKI BAUM It looks insurmountable but I think we have a great team. I can't say that there's been any issue we...
VICKI FLOTTA To be a Jew is a destiny
VICKI BAUM Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.
VICKI ROBIN Sprint does not just want to treat the enterprise like a big wireless consumer. Endpoint access must...
VICKI WARKER Dewey sent him, I thought, when I saw those eyes.
VICKI MYRON When I first got it, it meant nothing to me because I knew nothing about the mines. But when I looke...
VICKI SHARP Piano Man put up a fight but his resistance was futile. Hell hath no fury like a drunken girl at her...
VICKI LESAGE I've never understood people who just go out for one drink. Once I have one drink, I want all the dr...
VICKI LESAGE We're getting a lot of people from South Louisiana.
VICKI CANNELLA That old lady was a gift from Carol.
VICKI LAWRENCE That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
VICKI LAWRENCE Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
VICKI LAWRENCE It's my opportunity to say all the things that are politically incorrect. It's all the stuff we're t...
VICKI LAWRENCE Mama is my chance to be Chris Rock. She says things I would never say. I let her push the envelope.
VICKI LAWRENCE We're swapping what is working and what is not working.
VICKI KRAMER You need to talk about it, because in my daughter's case, everyone was silent. No one spoke up, so t...
VICKI CROMPTON Brian had a couple of tough breaks in the first set and that sort of changed the momentum. But I thi...
VICKI BROWNING A woman who is loved always has success
VICKI BAUM Some become psychotic when they quit using. Because of those withdrawals, these patients need proper...
VICKI CANNELLA What I learned was that celebrities come to me with a preconceived notion. They think I'm fun, o...
VICKI LAWRENCE When I first got an outbreak of hives, I tried everything to find relief. I felt like no one underst...
VICKI LAWRENCE We're just trying to provide a healthier alternative to going home and sitting on the couch.
VICKI FLOTTA I'm still not worried about walking under ladders. It's actually been pretty neat to see how we've p...
VICKI FLOTTA I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the lock...
VICKI LAWRENCE I asked the juvenile be placed in the juvenile version of prison. It's a locked facility.
VICKI MEYER The Chicken Clucking Contest is a hoot.
VICKI MORESE This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
VICKI LAWRENCE That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
VICKI LAWRENCE Justin was sad, but he thought it was so neat. He was in awe of it, and that's what I wanted for him...
VICKI BOSLEY If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just gr...
VICKI COVINGTON We no longer live life. We consume it.
VICKI ROBIN If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.
VICKI ROBIN The dreams we had of finding meaning and fulfillment through our jobs have faded into the reality of...
VICKI ROBIN He's always there. You never have to ask him twice to do something. He's just a great kid. He's aggr...
VICKI BROWNING These are new programs, new dollars, ... They do not pay for operating expenses. Not one dollar, not...
VICKI LUTZ There are some people in this world who can emotionally disconnect like a light switch. It’s like ...
VICKI PERRY Everything about Avalanche Days is geared to being family-friendly.
VICKI BAUMANN I don't think it's a secret that this direct spending from our tourists trickles down.
VICKI CIMINO John's extensive knowledge of the group meeting market, and his wide and varied experiences in the h...
VICKI DENFELD [Clutter is a problem buyers have trouble looking past.] Everything should be crisp, clean and very ...
VICKI FAZZINI I think people were promised they would be able to get all their drugs they require. But they weren'...
VICKI GOTTLICH Parents need to know what predators can easily find out online about their children.
VICKI IKELER He's swimming faster in practice than last year.
VICKI KOBEL 101 Ways to Be a Special Dad
VICKI LANSKY Having heard about this, my biggest concern is that we should go back and look at all of the project...
VICKI PHILLIPS We have raised $7 million for the Boca project. However, costs of the project have gone up, so we re...
VICKI PUGH The girls have been working very hard this summer. They've gone through two-a-day practices and they...
VICKI RITCHEY They will be forced to hitchhike to other states, jeopardizing their own safety. Some of them talk a...
VICKI SAPORTA One of the reasons for the move is to be a bit closer to an area where more members of the mining in...
VICKI VELTKAMP The potential is huge, considering that 55% of the U.S. population subscribes to a mobile phone.
VICKI WARKER That's a staggering amount of risk for companies. Their networks are exposed.
VICKI WARKER Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.
SARAH LOUISE DELANY What's more, I was free to do anything that did not hurt others that strengthened me and helped me i...
SAMUEL R. DELANY I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the worl...
ANNIE ELIZABETH DELANY Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning...
ANNIE ELIZABETH DELANY When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and wh...
ANNIE ELIZABETH DELANY I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, accord...
SAMUEL R. DELANY Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.
SAMUEL R. DELANY I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary...
SAMUEL R. DELANY I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in ...
SAMUEL R. DELANY Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it'...
SAMUEL R. DELANY Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The mir...
SAMUEL R. DELANY The cycles of Eric’s life took in stony beaches and pine forests where you could walk in a dayligh...
SAMUEL R. DELANY To be sure, the Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom, even when it takes you through the Val...
SAMUEL R. DELANY When you get real old, honey, you realizre there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. ...
SARAH LOUISE DELANY I spend a lot of time thinking, if not daydreaming. People think of me as a genre writer, and a genr...
SAMUEL R. DELANY One picks one's way about through the glass and aluminum doors, the receptionists' smiles, the lunch...
SAMUEL R. DELANY It’s not that men and women are identical; it’s just that they are so near identical in all but ...
SAMUEL R. DELANY But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like re...
SAMUEL R. DELANY I loved the story but also enjoyed the format of the book, which includes e-mail messages.
Jan...
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