California Quote by Raymond Chandler Download Open image “California, the department store state.” — Raymond Chandler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare California Dignity States Stores
California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Everyone here calls it the local department store. Its actually the Wilkinson County dump. — Honey Boo Boo Child Copy Share Image
I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a… — Philip Green Copy Share Image
I prefer department stores. In boutiques, they come up and ask you if you need help. I can't get lost in the experience. — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
“While the main store is located in the center aisles (with the exception of produce, dairy, and meats), the promotional store is on the… — Herb Sorensen Copy Share Image
Years ago, I was asked to come up to do a store signing in Vermont. The short version is the two younger guys who… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Target. The Walmart for people who think they are too good for Walmart. — Amanda Roberts Copy Share Image
My favorite place in the world is this store called My Sister's Closet in Arizona and it's the greatest secondhand shop in the world. — Chelsea Kane Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key]… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“He [James Cain] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the same. They… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.… — Alan Abel Copy Share Image
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own. — Sam Hinton Copy Share Image
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican. — David Swanson Copy Share Image
When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?' — Pamela Nicholson Copy Share Image
Take one round-trip flight between New York and California, and you've generated about 20 percent of the greenhouse gases that your car emits over… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away! — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
The D.C. playbook is obsolete. It's time for the people of California to bring the agenda to Washington, not the other way around. — Kevin de Leon Copy Share Image
While there is an attempt by the Trump people to say that California isn't really America. California certainly seems like America to me. — David Frum Copy Share Image
I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back… — Carson Daly Copy Share Image