“The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law."… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
I don't think about being tired, I don't think about my technique. I just try to break their will. — Cat Zingano Copy Share Image
I don't know what another actor is going to give me, on the day, and I don't want to be so hard… — Rose McIver Copy Share Image
I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique. — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
We have to work to make sure that our police are using the best training, the best techniques, that they're well prepared… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
You get a feeling on certain trails, when you're reacting like you and your machine are just one thing. It's the feeling… — Ned Overend Copy Share Image
The techniques of Aikido change constantly; every encounter is unique, and the appropriate response should emerge naturally. Today's techniques will be different… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
I worked for George Bush. I'm proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most controversial things… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Antonio Inoki majored in strong style. He showed real emotion with real technique in the ring. Hard shots that look like hard… — Shinsuke Nakamura Copy Share Image
I believe the principles and techniques in this book, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, can literally change the world, but more… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
I don't think you could teach someone to be a genius, but you can certainly teach them to not make rookie mistakes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The Alexander Technique will benefit anyone whether they are an elite athlete or whether they just wish to live life without the… — Greg Chappell Copy Share Image
I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well… — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
I don’t get wrapped up in technique and the like. I have a simple rule and that is to spend as much… — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference,… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It’s just starting. I think it’s going to take another year and a half to get up to critical mass, but everybody… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
Massage's history is rooted in technique and body knowledge, but is also about heart, healing intention and connection between therapist and client.… — Bob Benson Copy Share Image
Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique. — Sydney Greenstreet Copy Share Image
I don’t believe in technique, I believe in performance. If you are tough, whether you have technique or not, you’ll survive. — Virender Sehwag Copy Share Image
Some people may learn something from the way I play tennis. But there are also players who are better than me in… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings. — Paul Keres Copy Share Image
The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important. — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
In my opinion the teaching of volleyball technique, ..., must always be correlated with tactical tasks. — Viacheslav Platonov Copy Share Image
Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but… — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of… — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
I use all different kinds of techniques for all different types of music. The music dictates the style. — John Patitucci Copy Share Image
It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket. — Gautam Gambhir Copy Share Image
We learned sexual technique from our dog. He taught how to beg, and he taught my wife how to roll over and… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
There seems little doubt that sophisticated techniques have now reached the stage where, if murder is desired, a killer, once programmed and… — Sirhan Sirhan Copy Share Image
