Dashiell Hammett Quotes
I didn't know then, and I don't know now, whether she was the owner of the world's best poker face or was just naturally stupid, but whichever she was, she was thoroughly and completely it.
Dashiell Hammett
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Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
Edmond de Goncourt
It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
Rachel Hunter
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
Lady Bird Johnson
Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
Tama Janowitz
Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.
F. Sionil Jose
For Christmas 1999, my husband surprised me with a trip to Disney World. Along with our boys, we were standing on the roof of the Contemporary Hotel at midnight on New Year's Eve 2000 watching fireworks explode over every amusement park in Orlando. It was a magical way to celebrate the millennial, and a never-to-be-forgotten Christmas present.
Karen Robards
My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
T. J. Miller
If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.
Gabriella Wilde
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
Barney Oliver
We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.
Gary Bettman
L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
Zach Galligan
To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.
Karl Malone
I did try Botox, unfortunately, but I got out of it and now I can finally move my face again.
Nicole Kidman
And there will be a time, not for long, a month is enough, or a week, when every single person will be able to completely fulfill what they were meant to be—everything their bodies and souls have offered them, not what other people have dumped on them.
David Grossman
Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Manuel Puig
I didn't know then, and I don't know now, whether she was the owner of the world's best poker face or was just naturally stupid, but whichever she was, she was thoroughly and completely it.
Dashiell Hammett
