Dashiell Hammett Quotes

I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.

Dashiell Hammett

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• The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Legal
  • Southern

• All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Good
  • Creative

• The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Problem
  • Jerusalem
  • Grandeur

• The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Parent

• Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Pretty
  • Stuck
  • Truthfully

• The only reason I'm ever in character as 'Larry The Cable Guy' is because that's what I'm hired to do. In my movies, obviously they hired 'Larry The Cable Guy' to be 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do my shows, I'm 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do Jay Leno, it's: 'Please welcome 'Larry The Cable Guy.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Movies

• A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Mind
  • Children
  • May

• Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Writing
  • Desire
  • Moment

• I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Guy

• I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Hate
  • Jealousy

• We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Hands
  • Forget
  • Blood

• Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Together
  • Deep
  • Tools

• Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Family
  • Happy
  • Night

• Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Trying
  • Political
  • Food

• I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Think
  • Media
  • Digital

• I was a naughty kid. Teachers did not like me much.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Me
  • Kid
  • Naughty

• I get that people want more diversity in TV and film, and I stand by that. I stand in solidarity with better diversity in TV shows, especially for Asian actors. I agree with that 100 per cent.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Diversity
  • Stand

• I don't look at Instagram. I don't have much to do with social media.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Look
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I get particularly depressed by the way teenagers are portrayed in the media. They are massively underestimated. They are bright, intelligent people who are given less and less opportunity. They are an ignored generation.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Intelligent

• I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Thinking
  • Go
  • Straight

• There is artistic beauty to the way biology functions, nature functions, and science functions. I am trying to bring that kind of understanding in the design space.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • Trying
  • Nature
  • Science

• No religion is higher than humanity.

  

  Abdul Sattar Edhi
  • Humanity
  • Religion

• I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.

  

  Dashiell Hammett