Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls… — Lucian Copy Share Image
If you are a bad putter, you will not make a putt. If you have a tendency to chili-dip wedges, you'll be… — Johnny Miller Copy Share Image
I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel. — Herbert V. Prochnow Copy Share Image
When I remember you, Randy, I'm going to smile, not cry. You're a part of me. One of the best parts. I… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Brave words in a room full of pulseless creatures. Spade gave Don a disgusted glance while Rodney just licked his lips. No… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
As if Spade's chivalry would allow him to do anything to a woman. The harshest punishment she could imagine him dishing out… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I don't rely on muscle power to dig, I use a sharp spade and I wear boots. — Janet Macunovich Copy Share Image
Then, at the end of every hand, Miss Bolo would inquire with a dismal countenance and reproachful sigh, why Mr. Pickwick had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There's a country spread out in the sky, a credulous carpet of rainbows and crepuscular plants: I move toward it just a… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about… — Graeme Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy… — James Shirley Copy Share Image
With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown… — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Some things have to be exposed. — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I rode all day. I cried all night. The moon didn’t glow. The sun didn’t rise. A comet blazed Between my eyes.… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
There’s less violence in my world compared to yours,” she insisted. Spade sighed. “No, darling. There are only different reasons for it. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Muhammad was a jackass. People who believe in him are stupid. Let us call a spade as spade. These people must be… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
