Hard Boiled Quotes

28 quotes by 24 authors

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics. — John Banville
Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg. — Maya Angelou
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the… — Christopher Hitchens
I have to have breakfast and breakfast has to be eggs, whether in omelet form, hard-boiled, or over-easy, — Chrissy Teigen
The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it… — George Pelecanos
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive… — Akira Kurosawa
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. — James M. Cain
CEREMONY OF FLIES hits the road like a nitrous-fueled GTO...and then pulls the ultimate stunt of getting better. What starts as a deceptively simple hard-boiled… — Lisa Morton
Linde's Danger to Self is a warm, candid and appealing account of being an emergency room psychiatrist. Linde captures the non-conformist, hard-boiled style of the… — Tanya Luhrmann
Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group of… — Raymond Chandler
And if weâ€™re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of… — Nic Pizzolatto
I need to eat before a workout. If I exercise in the morning, I'll have a little oatmeal, cereal, or a hard-boiled egg with toast.… — Ana Ortiz
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to… — James M. Cain
You're about to meet a new great dame of crime fiction in Death Was the Other Woman. Linda L. Richards does a stunning job in… — Linda Fairstein
Most hard-boiled people are half-baked. — Wilson Mizner
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing… — Megan Abbott
I am who I am. In politics when you treat people well and they know you're honest, straight and sincere, I think it's an advantage.… — Joe Kyrillos
While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read… — Paul Auster
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing. — Ernest Hemingway
Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken;… — Margaret Atwood

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