Quote by Raymond Chandler Download Open image ““So is he gonna wake up from that nap yet or what?”” — Raymond Chandler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“God is taking a nap within my soul. I ponder whether to wake Him or not.” — Harley King Copy Share Image
“I think I will try to sleep. Wake me if we’re about to die.” He” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I do know that I don't want to wake him. We were up very late last night.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“And maybe that is exactly what happened…he walked away and never woke up…” — Tiffany Apan Copy Share Image
“Thank God. Now maybe he'll stop acting like a cranky toddler that skipped nap time.” — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
“Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he'll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap.” — Alex and Brett Harris 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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