Raymond Chandler Quotes

The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.

Raymond Chandler

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• Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Life
  • Work
  • Night

• I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Mind
  • Childhood
  • Jazz

• A new era of responsibility is here.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Responsibility
  • New
  • Here

• Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• Athletics is in my blood.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Blood
  • Athletics

• My life was pretty rough.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • My Life

• It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • World

• Folks say that you've found someone new to do the things I used to do for you. Just call my name, I'm not ashamed, I'll come running back to you. Can't sleep at night, Ican't eat a bite. When you were mine I didn't treat you right. Just call my name,I know, I know I'm not ashamed. I'll come running back to you.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Night
  • Running
  • Sleep

• Metal music is the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the idea that idiots buy cheap trash are getting ripped off.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • Music
  • Art
  • Success

• Never get high on your ownly supply.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • High

• I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for.

  

  Joe Murray
  • Great
  • Money

• I'm told sometimes I look like Goldie Hawn, and I get chuffed about that.

  

  Bonnie Tyler

• If I am offered good roles, I will definitely be back in Malayalam, anytime.

  

  Keerthy Suresh
  • Good

• We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.

  

  David Milne
  • Design

• Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.

  

  Lucille Roybal-Allard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.

  

  David Cameron
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Done

• The most important and brave thing someone can do, I think, in the face of dehumanization, is to continue to assert their humanity.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Important
  • Humanity
  • Brave

• The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders.

  

  Bob Diamond
  • Management

• But the biggest beauty advice I've given my daughter is every morning I say, "Genesis, what are the two best parts of you?" And she says "my brain and my heart." And I say, "You've gotta remember that, Genesis. You've gotta remember that you're not what you look like," you know? I think that's the best beauty advice I could give her.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Morning

• The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Work
  • Forever
  • Productivity

• Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.' 'Ad,' Wallace said, 'it's a coffee table, not an orphan.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Mean
  • Said
  • Coffee

• My dad was a musician, played on the road and played all of his life. And I grew up in a musical family. I heard it all. I mean, I got accustomed to listening to Roy Acuff and all the old guys. It was really cool for me growing up in a family like that.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Musician

• The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.

  

  Raymond Chandler
  • Mean
  • Forever
  • Broke