Dashiel Hammett Quotes & Sayings

She can break your fall Or let you fall and break And every time you jump You just know she's going to catch you — Henry Rollins

I am in constant search of charitable work and thank Allah that I am happy, that my children are happy, and I like that all of my family is happy. — Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi

But I didn't think I'd ever wanted her more than in that moment when I was witnessing her put herself back together. — Christina Lauren

My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different. — Balthazar Getty

It's official: we're fucked. — Manel Loureiro

If I'm more prepared, the success will fall on me; if not, it will fall on someone else, and I'm okay with that. — Beau Walker

Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity. — Charlotte Lennox

Oh! what lies we women have to tell! When we are mothers, we tell lies to pacify our children; and when we are wives, we tell lies to pacify the fathers of our children. We are never free from this necessity. — Rabindranath Tagore

Not all roads that lead down lead up as well. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Hammett was the ace performer ... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key] is the record of a man's devotion to a friend. He was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before. — Raymond Chandler