Dashiell Hammett Quotes

All successful bunko men come in time to believe the world, except for themselves, is populated with a race of human sheep who may be trusted to conduct themselves with true sheeplike docility.

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• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • People
  • Failure
  • Plant

• I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Brilliant
  • Rude
  • Outrageous

• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Work
  • Force
  • Directors

• You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

  

  Taylor Branch
  • Think
  • Free
  • Less

• There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • People
  • Free
  • Church

• I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
  • Hair
  • Gray

• Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Power
  • Me
  • Virtue

• When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Glasses
  • Teeth
  • Braces

• When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Like
  • Radio

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Give
  • Type
  • Them

• We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Technology

• The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • World
  • Job
  • Feeling

• I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Reading
  • Voice

• I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Hand
  • Like
  • Potato

• If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.

  

  Loretta Young
  • Sun

• I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Time
  • Home
  • She

• I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Think
  • Enjoy
  • Choice

• Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Party
  • Politics
  • Able

• Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Fly
  • Wings
  • Spread

• All successful bunko men come in time to believe the world, except for themselves, is populated with a race of human sheep who may be trusted to conduct themselves with true sheeplike docility.

  

  Dashiell Hammett
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