Big sleep Quote by Raymond Chandler Download Open image “Shake your business up and pour it. I haven't got all day.” — Raymond Chandler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Big sleep Business Shakes
There's no business like... staying the hell out of my business, so please do. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wanna get my drink on. Boss can shove that over time in his can. All I wanna do is put a drink in my… — Eric Church Copy Share Image
Start the day off right...On the toilet...Shitting out yesterday's bullshit getting ready to digest today. — Marlon Wayans Copy Share Image
There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
The only thing I plan to accomplish at work today is to turn a gallon of coffee into a gallon of piss. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can get quite well known, and then I can unleash this kind of anarchist-hippie thing that I've been holding like a very precious… — Timothy Morton 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
During Mr. Reagan's trip to Europe...members of the traveling press corps watched him doze off so many times--during speeches by French President Francois Mitterrand… — Mark Hertsgaard Copy Share Image
You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a… — raymond chandler Copy Share Image
“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
