Noir Quote by Ross Macdonald Download Open image ““My free hand reached for something to hold on to, and closed on liquid nothing.”” — Ross Macdonald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Noir
“To believe, perhaps you had to cease looking for explanations and instead hold the little thing in your hands as long as your were… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
“taught me it’s that life is short, and if you want something, you have to reach out with both hands and grip it tightly.” — Belle Aurora Copy Share Image
“you get nothing with a fist that you can’t get in multitudes with your hand open.” — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
“You are more ready and able to grasp at opportunity when your hands are empty.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“When you held out a hand to someone you loved, she deserved for it to be steady.” — Debora Geary Copy Share Image
“Even now, I hoped he would take my hand, and when he didn't, I felt my empty hand as if it were missing a… — Jaclyn Dolamore Copy Share Image
“None of us offered to shake hands. There was no advantage to letting somebody get hold of you.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“there are no stories or secrets in the world worth holding onto more than his hand.” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.” — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves. — Ross MacDonald Copy Share Image
“She didn't look like any motel manager I had ever seen. More likely an actress who hadn't quite made the grade down south, or… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.” — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“A cockroach stepped out from behind the ketchup, gave me a quick impassive once-over, decided that I was of the Brahmin faith, and walked… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people. — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.” — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman… — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary. — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
“IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment building’s stairs. There was… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Sandy’s face was very close to mine in the crowded room. She had a wide mouth and a lot of teeth. She had turned… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“And Quirk’s a captain now,” he said. “Captain Quirk?” The motorcycle cop grinned. “Captain Quirk,” he said.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I am grateful for what I call well-spent moments: Making a tuna fish sandwich with the works. Taking at least a half hour to… — Sarah Ban Breathnach 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
I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“Susan had decided to sit by the pool at the hotel with a copy of a book by Alice Miller called The Drama of… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“One of the two owners, the man who had been sitting in the front room, was stretched out in there asleep, stockinged-toes pointed at… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
