I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they're not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought of as writers rather than ghettoised as crime writers, but I love being thought of firmly as a crime writer.
Living is not a reward and dying is no crime.
Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.
I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully…
Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time.
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.
I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings.
If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.
But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates.
The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.
In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.
Poverty is not a crime, but it's better not to show it.
It's a crime if you get caught.
There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing they are, the more picturesque, so to speak, but there are crimes that are shameful, disgraceful, all horror asid...
Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.
I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.
I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.
