Dashiell Hammett Quotes
'Our conversations have not been such that I am anxious to continue them in private.'Dashiell Hammett
Quotes to Explore
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A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
Gary Sinise -
I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
Wavy Gravy -
I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.
Edie Campbell -
After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
Dan Hawkins -
They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Walter Savage Landor -
I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
Aaron Staton -
We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.
Ian Somerhalder -
I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there.
Randall Kennedy -
The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.
Zig Ziglar
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I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.
Vince Vaughn -
I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.
T-Pain -
Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
Babe Ruth -
I'm one of the few adults lucky enough to love their job. And when you've got bills to pay, you get on with it! I like challenges.
Malorie Blackman -
Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
Naguib Mahfouz -
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Hank Aaron
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J'allais sous le ciel, Muse! et j'étais ton féal.
Arthur Rimbaud -
Light is slow.
Neil Harbisson -
Well, people always say that if you follow your heart, you’ll never regret it, which I agree with. But what I learned when Ian’s father and I were trying to make things work between the two of us way back when, was just how much determination it can sometimes take to stay on your heart’s path. I also learned that love is worth the struggle. Always.
Bella Andre -
My definition of a producer is 'the man with the dream.'
David L. Wolper -
All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that's what gives America interest. It's many things all at once. It's such a complicated society.
Joel Sternfeld -
'Our conversations have not been such that I am anxious to continue them in private.'
Dashiell Hammett