Quote by Raymond Chandler Download Open image ““She’d make for a jazzy week-end, but she’d be wearing for a steady diet.”” — Raymond Chandler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“She's like a Philistine on a Sunday, the way she won't take but so many steps a day. Except every day's Sunday around here.” — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“She look like she ain't long for this world but dressed well for the next.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Just like that. Like she was ordering fast food, back in the days when there was fast food and you could order it.” — M R Carey Copy Share Image
“This is my first week back, and your last week, so what we have to do is eat everything.” — Cecilia Vinesse Copy Share Image
“Her life could go inten thousand different directions, and all of them were right. So tomorrow, and in two weeks, and in a couple… — Rebecca Barrow Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, I wish you were on a diet. Not because you need it, but because I want to eat your food.” — Asura Copy Share Image
“She doesn't have to even give me supper. Im not hungry anyway. Im full. (Dress of White Silk)” — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“If you would only be willing to take the time to truly get to know me. I know that we would spawn beautiful offspring together, my lovely Jazz.I could give you riches you can only imagine. I have much to offer a beauty like you.” She felt her smile tremble on her lips, then lost her hard-won control. “I would… — Linda Wisdom Copy Share
“God, he thinks, he could be starving and she’d fill him up with one sweet look.” — Austin Chant Copy Share Image
“No way, that would kill my diet for the week. I don't know how you can stand to eat so unhealthy, Quinn. Just consider… — Stephanie Campbell Copy Share Image
“I'll have you eating healthy eventually. Probably so. Seems like I'll do about anything for you.” — Carrie Jones 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 and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key] is the record of a man's devotion to a friend. He was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. He wrote scenes that… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
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 wanted to do wing-overs and sing the prologue to Pagliacci. I had the fly swatter poised in midair and I was all set. There was a patch of bright sunlight on the corner of the desk… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“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
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