Dashiell Hammett Quotes

'You got types?''Only you, darling-lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.'

Dashiell Hammett

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• I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Musician
  • Singer
  • Untraine

• I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • School
  • Acting
  • Used

• I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Travel
  • Luxury
  • Cuddling

• I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Effort

• I hope that the movie industry will learn from the experiences of the music industry and will be much more constructive in their approach to P2P.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Hope

• I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • People
  • Good
  • Amazing

• But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Respect
  • Talk
  • Accept

• When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Engagement

• I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Book
  • Never
  • Number

• Even if you have some extra kilos, you don't need to kill yourself for that; you just have to look at yourself as a positive.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Positive
  • Yourself
  • Look

• Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Real
  • Community
  • Struggle

• We'll be sending a print to the MPAA, we say nothing about it and hope they sleep through the movie.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Sleep

• There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist, except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Unique

• No one has ever suggested that tax exemption has converted libraries, art galleries, or hospitals into arms of the state or employees 'on the public payroll.' There is no genuine nexus between tax exemption and establishment of religion.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Art

• The only people he knew of who would have leveled material advantage so that no one had any were of course those who had none to start with.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People

• Love is a naked shadow On a gnarled and naked tree.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Tree
  • Shadow

• Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

  

  Aesop
  • Broken

• Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Way
  • Bridge

• I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Me
  • Promise

• Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.

  

  William James
  • Dream
  • Exception
  • Corny

• And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Life
  • Political
  • Creation

• The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • People
  • Help
  • Religion

• 'You got types?''Only you, darling-lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.'

  

  Dashiell Hammett