Don't get me wrong - I'll put $25 on the ground and then…

Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.

— Raymond Chandler

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off…

— Lauren Oliver

The costume designer, her name is Anne Hardinge. She's done "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz." She's really comedic costume designer, which was…

— Jerusha Hess

When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we,…

— Anonymous

You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.

— Henry Miller

The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Singing, dancing, and acting! The part [of Roxie in Let It Shine] was right up my alley. Plus, the thought of playing a rock…

— Coco Jones

...wings—-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of…

— Laini Taylor

It would be hilarious if I worked in a bowling alley.

— Aubrey Plaza

If Elmore Leonard met Jim Thompson down a dark alley at midnight they might emerge a week later with thick beards, bloodshot eyes and…

— Eoin Colfer

In most cases, the best strategy for a job interview is to be fairly honest, because the worst thing that can happen is that…

— Anonymous

Victim disarmament types are sick, sick people, who'd rather see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose than see…

— L. Neil Smith

She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already…

— Julianna Baggott

I feel like now if you're going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way,…

— Babatunde Adebimpe