Cracks Quote by James M. Cain Download Open image “The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.” — James M. Cain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cracks Hands Money
“The hand that pockets the corrupt coin places it in the collection plate seeking absolution.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Money just draws flies. My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me. — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
The hand is man's most valuable servant; its dexterity enables it to respond to his slightest bidding. — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
“By nine, Mildred was powdered, puffed, perfumed, and patted to that state of semi-transparency that a woman seems to achieve when she is really… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
“I ripped all her clothes off. She twisted and turned, slow, so they would slip out from under her. Then she closed her eyes… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
“Then she got up, went to Monty's mirror, and began combing her hair, while little cadenzas absentmindedly cascaded out of her throat, and cold drops cascaded over Mildred's heart. For Veda was stark naked. From the massive, singer's torso, with the Dairy quaking in front, to the slim hips, to the lovely legs, there wasn't so much as a garter… — James M. Cain Copy Share
If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either". — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
“Up close, she could see the sharp, cold, look that she constantly shot at Mr. Treviso, particularly when there was a break, and she… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
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 write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of… — James M. Cain Copy Share
She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
“She looked like the great grandmother of every whore in the world. The devil got his money's worth that night.” — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man! — William Shakespeare Copy Share
I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't make music… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
There's material that I read that I fall in love with, and I always get a little bit sad because I know that, when… — Emmanuelle Chriqui Copy Share Image
The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
Interesting, isn’t it? What do you have to say about that, Fury? (Savitar) They’re on crack. (Fury) Anyone else on crack? (Savitar) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to chase down a fly to get rid of it - you just darken the room, leave a crack of light in a window, and out he goes. Works every time. We all have that instinct, that… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share
What am I doing with my life am I living it or am I just going to some hum drum job that I don't really wanna be at doing some miniscule task being paid to be a mindless drone or am I living my life on my terms - the way I want to live doing thing that I want… — Kai Greene Copy Share
Then there were the shabti, magical figurines that were supposed to come to life when summoned. A few months ago, I’d fallen for a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
I'm a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me. [...] And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out… — James Patterson Copy Share
I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
It doesn't have the ability to think rationally this economic model. It thinks like a drug addict: 'Where can I get my next fix?' It doesn't learn wisely. Any kind of measure of natural wisdom would be: you make a mistake, you correct it the next time around. But a drug addict feels terrible... and then says: 'I want more'.… — Naomi Klein Copy Share
