Novelists Noir Quotes & Sayings

I think what we try to do is bring the news to our viewers in a very comprehensive responsible way. — Wolf Blitzer

Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. — Vince Lombardi

I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: "I can't live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne by Jo Malone and Frette sheets". In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system. — Emma Forrest

Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch. — A. J. Jacobs

If in the laukik (worldly life), one attains the vision of alaukik (beyond the world), his work is accomplished. — Dada Bhagwan

Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now inhabiting this earth. Hence, our destiny, with the aid of God, remains in our own hands. — J. William Fulbright

After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two. — Kristin Scott Thomas

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists. — Adrian McKinty

I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one. — Dalton Trumbo

I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me like the Parker novels so much. Suffice it to say that Stark/Westlake is the cleanest of all noir novelists, a styleless stylist who gets to the point with stupendous economy, hustling you down the path of plot so briskly that you have to read his books a second time to appreciate the elegance and sober wit with which they are written. — Terry Teachout

My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child. — Iain Glen