Maltese Falcon Brigid O'shaughnessy Quotes & Sayings

I know why there is no glass, in front of the watercolor picture of blue irises, and why the window opens only partly and why the glass in it is shatterproof. It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge. So. — Margaret Atwood

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth. — Ambrose Bierce

There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here. — Arto Lindsay

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom! — Roberto Bolano

To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice. — Martial

Like a long sighing of wind in trees it begins, then they sweep into sight, borne now upon a cloud of phantom dust. They rush past, forwardleaning in the saddles, with brandished arms, beneath whipping ribbons from slanted and eager lances; with tumult and soundless yelling they sweep past like a tide whose crest is jagged with the wild heads of horses and the brandished arms of men like the crater of the world in explosion. — William Faulkner

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water. — George Saunders

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. — John Lennon

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. — Rumi

Do you want to be mesmermized by the physical phenomenon? — Scott Steiner

When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to. — George Soros

What Obama is about, in my opinion, is he is a Global redistributionist. He's pursuing reparations but it's not racial reparations. It's global reparations for the sins and conquest of colonism. — Dinesh D'Souza

How could you not know?" His voice was full of wonderment. "You changed me utterly. You were like a ... like a bright, wonderful bloom in a garden full of weeds. Like a graceful capital on a page of plain script, a letter decorated with the deepest, finest colors in all Erin. Like a flame, Caitrin. Like a song. — Juliet Marillier

If you put Sen. Kerry in the White House, I think you are going to see that another terrorist attack happen ... and I don't want to see another Sept. 11. — Bernard Kerik