Dashiell Hammett Quotes

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.

Dashiell Hammett

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• I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Listen
  • Watch

• Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Find

• I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Going
  • Satisfied
  • Keeps

• In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

  

  Om Puri
  • Stories
  • Actors
  • Films

• When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • People
  • Character
  • Chance

• I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Technology
  • Compassion

• How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Childhood
  • Times
  • Repeat

• My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Paint
  • Table
  • Uniform

• Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Hair
  • Makeup
  • Learned

• And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Think
  • Singing
  • Opera

• I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.

  

  Gary William Flake
  • Change
  • Like
  • Being

• Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Sales

• As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?

  

  Becki Newton
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Red

• The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Team
  • Stop
  • Best

• I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Real
  • Truth
  • History

• Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Running
  • Choice
  • Clear

• I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Work
  • Hate
  • Determination

• Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Good
  • Words
  • Dog

• Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Good
  • Small
  • Wine

• When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don't try to pretend.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Age
  • House
  • Culture

• The difference between me and many young people is, I don't carry music with me. I like to think. I don't use any modern convenience to be talking to other people, because I like my time to think. I go to the garden in the morning, and this time, I'm thinking ideas, I'm not drawing, I'm thinking.

  

  Sergio Aragones
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Morning

• Bring it on, bring the pain on, I want to face it.

  

  Alexander Masters
  • Pain
  • Bring
  • Face It

• You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.

  

  Dashiell Hammett