Estleman Loren Quotes & Sayings

Our pursuits are for perfection but possibilities are endless. — Debasish Mridha

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues. — Mehmet Oz

Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same. — Amy Lowell

An execution carried out in secrecy is no better than lynching from a dry branch. — Loren D. Estleman

When your job's to make sure nothing ever happens," he'd once heard, "you begin to see nothing happening — John Jackson Miller

In 1914, Franz Ferdinand, the Austrian imperial heir, was shot and killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. Do you know the motive behind the act?
It was in retaliation for the subjugation of the Sebs in Austria.
It was not.Franz Ferdinand had stated his intention to introduce reforms favorable to the Serbs in his empire. Had he survived to ascend the throne, he would have made a revolution unnecessary. In plain terms, he was killed because he was going to give the rebels what they were shouting for. They needed a despot in the palace in order to seize it.
What's good for reform is bad for the reformers — Loren D. Estleman

In the silence of fragrance, Eva saw how ambiguous, complex stories could be told. Shifting and mutating, they blossomed, bloomed and faded; their very impermanence was incredibly moving to her. You could be laughing in public yet wear, right on the surface of your skin, a perfume ripe with longing, dripping with regret, shining with hope, all at the same time. It would fade as the day faded, vanishing into gossamer on your skin. And still it had the power to catch you unaware, piercing right through you, when you hung your dress up that night. — Kathleen Tessaro

Cherokee's American, Ned. It don't get more American than that. — Loren D. Estleman

I know a rancher like you down below Hell's Canyon. He runs about six cows and five thousand sheep. But he calls himself a cattleman. — Loren D. Estleman

Slowly, as waves recede, my expanding spirit shrinks back into earthly dimensions
not voluntarily, because I would prefer to lose myself, but I am pulled from below, back to myself, into myself, so that for just one moment I am on the couch again, fitting the fingers of my awareness into the glove of my flesh. And I know I can move this finger or wink that eye
if I want to. But I don't want to move. I will not move! — Daniel Keyes

You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to. — Mink Stole

Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest never hit home this hard. Reading of Eddie Perlmutter's exploits is like rolling in an aisle paved with broken glass and wanting to do it all over again two minutes later. — Loren D. Estleman

Without question, his picture did not do him justice, but again, he was dead when it was taken — Loren D. Estleman

How easy it is to be bitter or angry; that's when you're at your weakest! But when you choose to be kind, to forget your hurt, that's when you find within the greatest strength of all. — Judy Croome

I don't have so many friends I can afford to drop one just because he tried to kill me. — Loren D. Estleman

Appeared fierce, but Oscar decided this was due more to the fact that his face was still cut and swollen from — Loren D. Estleman

Now came details of Goldby's adventures with the Cooks and their band. Chicken, Dynamite Dick, The Verdigris Kid. I wish these fellows read something other than Ned Buntline's Own. Why haven't I heard of this Goldsby before this? — Loren D. Estleman

The world's black and white, good and bad, no matter what you hear. The people who say it isn't have already chosen black. — Loren D. Estleman

I like things that look like mistakes. — Greta Gerwig

As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike. — Alex Faickney Osborn

If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a wrist or the timber of a feminine voice, so much the better for us. Literature never produced a relationship more symbiotic nor a warmer and more timeless friendship. — Loren D. Estleman