Rozan Quotes & Sayings

You're going to have to speak up for yourself - and I learned that after always being, for lack of a better word, crapped on. — Keke Palmer

I like to cook simple things, like vegetable egg-white omelets; roast chicken; sauteed chicken breast with curry powder; and Greek salad. Just things that are fresh and healthy and fast and easy, because I have such a crazy schedule. — Sasha Cohen

When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum. — Atom Egoyan

I've had some great examples in my career of how to do things the right way. — Jamie Moyer

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. — John Morley

Everyone knows I married a prince, and then I married a billionaire. — Diane Von Furstenberg

While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights) — S.J. Rozan

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism. — Criss Jami

So you should accept knowledge as if you were hearing something you already knew. But this does not mean to receive various pieces of information merely as an echo of your own opinions. It means that you should not be surprised at whatever you see or hear. If you receive things just as an echo of yourself, you do not really see them, you do not fully accept them as they are. So when we say, "Rozan is famous for its misty, rainy days," it does not mean to appreciate this sight by recollecting some scenery we have seen before: "It is not so wonderful. I have seen that sight before." Or "I have painted much more beautiful paintings! Rozan is nothing!" This is not our way. If you are ready to accept things as they are, you will receive them as old friends, even though you appreciate them with new feeling. — Shunryu Suzuki

The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised. — S.J. Rozan

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument. — Henry Ward Beecher

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't. — S.J. Rozan

Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond. — Eliot Spitzer

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK. — Barack Obama

Chinatown is tremendously interesting ... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all. — S.J. Rozan

The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect. — S.J. Rozan

One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails. — S.J. Rozan

Like O'Rielly, we'll grab the most important word of each sentence ... 'The' for example. Also, I'll say, 'I'm angry,' and the graphic will read, 'Colbert angry. — Stephen Colbert

I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know. — S.J. Rozan

Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows. — S.J. Rozan

What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does. — S.J. Rozan

The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out. — S.J. Rozan

Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it. — Aeschylus

When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order. — S.J. Rozan

There is no book so bad it does not contain something good. — Pliny

Once, he'd been sure the view from the peak would be worth the climb. But slowly he'd come to know that the path he was on, littered with boulders, pitfalls, and traps, crept onward forever but never reached the top. — S.J. Rozan

Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself. — S.J. Rozan

The great thing about musicals is that they transcend race. — Gurinder Chadha

I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings ... Boy With Pail ... Kitten On Fire. — Steven Wright