Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.” Sam Spade “You know, that's good,… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The exponential rewards you receive as a reaction to the service that you give is phenomenal. If everybody understood that you get… — Bill Courtney Copy Share Image
I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
From someone whose dad buys him a spade for Christmas, I thought you'd be grateful! — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It was clear they weren’t getting any information out of Ian tonight. She, Bones, and Cat followed as Spade supported Ian, almost… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He… — Kris Saknussemm Copy Share Image
Kate Spade has great feminine classics and I love her bags. Designs by Rebecca Taylor, BCBG and Herve Leger are sexy and… — Katrina Bowden Copy Share Image
Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental. — Lucille Kallen Copy Share Image
Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade) — Kate Spade Copy Share Image
Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
