So Noir It Hurts Quotes & Sayings

When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh ... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny. — Rainbow Rowell

The schoolmastering profession has always attracted homosexual flagellants — Burgo Partridge

I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets. — Raymond Chandler

If you find a footnote, " a library-science prof once told a class of which I was a part, "step on its head and kill it before it can breed. — Stephen King

Whereas Taft discouraged the young Yale student from extracurricular reading, fearful it would detract from required courses, Roosevelt read widely yet managed to stand near the top of his class. The breath of his numerous interests allowed him to draw on knowledge across various disciplines, from zoology in philosophy and religion, from poetry and drama to history and politics. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat - just to see what ran out of it."
"Caterpillar blood," I said. — Raymond Chandler

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question. — J. Carter Brown

The two women looked at me as if I were the Messiah returning with their personal salvations sealed in separate envelopes. — George Alec Effinger

Marlowe's the name. The guy you've been trying to follow around for a couple of days."
"I ain't following anybody, doc."
"This jalopy is. Maybe you can't control it. Have it your own way. I'm now going to eat breakfast in the coffee shop across the street: orange juice, bacon and eggs, toast, honey, three or four cups of coffee, and a toothpick. I am then going up to my office, which is on the seventh floor of the building right opposite you. If you have anything that's worrying you beyond endurance, drop up and chew it over. I'll only be oiling my machine gun. — Raymond Chandler

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body. — Venus Williams

I've always thought having a kid that played soccer would be the worst punishment. After watching 3 min of water polo I stand corrected. — Daniel Tosh

I mean, at least with an argument, you know what's happening. Or have some idea. Silence is ... it could be anything. — Sarah Dessen

I already gave my best. — William Hung

I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It was all I had in the way of a home. In it was everything that was mine, that had any association for me, any past, anything that took the place of a family. Not much: a few books, pictures, radio, chessmen, old letters, stuff like that. Nothing. Such as they were, they had all my memories. — Raymond Chandler

I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions. — Eve Ensler

I don't carry a weapon, Mr. Bogatyrev. Not usually. I've never been in a situation where I needed one. Either the other guy has one, and I do what he says, or he doesn't, and I make him do what I say. — George Alec Effinger