Raymond Chandler Quotes

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

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• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Team
  • Me

• My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • World
  • Writing
  • Done

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Learn
  • Horse
  • Ride

• It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Mean

• I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Friends
  • Style
  • Inspiration

• People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Kind
  • Direction

• Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Art
  • Experience
  • End

• Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Easy
  • Very
  • Through

• 'I can’t keep giving my will into other people hands no more, ain’t? I have to decide what I want to do for myself.' No answer. It wasn’t going to tell her.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • People
  • Giving

• It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.

  

  David Byrne Talking Heads
  • Music
  • Girl

• Eviction affects old folks and young folks, sick people and able-bodied people, white communities and African-American communities.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • American
  • Sick

• I like to let my work ethic speak for itself, just things of that nature, like the way I go about practice and show these guys how to do it.

  

  Lawrence Timmons
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Practice

• On 'Glee,' we often tackle the tough topics that young people face - in fact, my recurring character, Wade 'Unique' Adams, is a transgender teenager who finds herself navigating a lot of the same problems many young people face around the globe.

  

  Alex Newell
  • People
  • Character
  • Unique

• Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate type of hip hop. They decided to tell everybody 'Well, this is what hip hop is,' instead of coming back to the pioneers and getting the true definition of what hip hop is and what it was and what we been pushing for all these years.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • True
  • Evil
  • Legacy

• No one heard about Bill Clinton on his first trip to New Hampshire. I showed Mike Huckabee around the state years before he ran, and no one knew him then, either.

  

  Bob Ehrlich

• I apologize to those of you I offended for coming out against the Ex-Im Bank. I'm not changing my mind on it, but I just wanted to let you know I apologize for that.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Mind

• I've got quite a few inspirations - the list is kind of endless!

  

  Jess Glynne

• I don't know if there's a particular project, but one movie that I was really disappointed I didn't get to work on was Judd Apatow's 'Walk Hard.'

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Work
  • Movie

• I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was probably between the second and third grade and a guy got rid of it for me.

  

  Lee Hazlewood
  • Bad
  • Guy

• If we wish our state's growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce.

  

  Jay Weatherill
  • Future
  • Wish
  • Growth

• There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Beautiful
  • Proud
  • Listening

• She's the only woman I've ever had a sexual fantasy about. With me, looks come first, and she's everything a woman should be. She's blonde and beautiful, she's got the most incredible legs - et cetera, et cetera. And she's French as well. (on Brigitte Bardot)

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Beautiful
  • Fantasy
  • Blonde

• She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

  

  Raymond Chandler
  • Beautiful
  • Laughing
  • Smiling