Dashiell Hammett Quotes
It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.Dashiell Hammett
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On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.
Yi So-Yeon -
I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
Queen Latifah -
I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.
Olga Kurylenko -
Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
Yitzhak Navon -
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
Harrison Ford -
The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.
Wellington Mara
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell -
I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.
Naya Rivera -
Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.
Kate Moss -
England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
Fidel Castro -
It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me – but the process of actually crafting it is essential.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
Earl Weaver -
If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
Ulysses S. Grant -
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to any thing but power for their relief.
Edmund Burke -
Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!
Claude Debussy -
If you want to buy my wares Follow me and climb the stairs … Love for sale.
Cole Porter -
We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
Donald Trump
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I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It was seven days a week.
Albert Gubay -
Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics.
Bette Ford -
Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my destiny to waste and pine among those noisome congregations of the city.
John James Audubon -
Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.
John Caudwell -
The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able-nor can it be able-to shape a new world order which events so compellingly demand.' ... The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, 'urgently requires, I believe, that the United States take the leadership among all free peoples to make the underlying concepts and aspirations of national sovereignty truly meaningful through the federal approach.'
Nelson Rockefeller -
It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.
Dashiell Hammett