Raymond Chandler Quotes

A really good detective never gets married.

Raymond Chandler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 23, 1888 - March 26, 1959

Topics

GoodNeverDetectiveMarriedReally

When you take away healthcare from women, you're keeping women out of the workforce because you're eliminating their choice of when to start a family.

Jessica Chastain

FamilyWomenStartYouHealthcare

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

IndividualityExistenceNecessary

Hmm... at some point when I was making 'Postcards,' it struck me, what the underlying themes for the record would be. It would be about choices, fears and doubts, and it had an existentialist theme to it.

Jens Lekman

MeChoicesThemePointWouldDoubts

It's a very unpleasant topic. But we are in an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism. And this war is, is, I think, metastasizing, almost far quicker than governments can handle it... We have Boko Haram and other groups that will eventually partner with ISIS in this global war.

Steve Bannon

WarPartnerThinkWillFascismFar

I'd like to be with an interesting man who is understanding about having a busy partner.

Tracy Reese

ManBusyPartnerInterestingLike

Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

Robert E. Lee

WishYouDutyMoreNeverOld

In some cities, McDonald's rules, but Seattle is ruled by teriyaki joints.

Tom Douglas

RulesMcDonaldSeattleSomeJoints

Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station.

Martin Rees

SpaceCircleEarthLostGlamour

My abiding childhood memory is watching my uncle perform to thousands in Madison Square Garden. He wore a white suit and came down from the ceiling on a rope, and the crowd went crazy.

Little Louie Vega

ChildhoodMemoryCrazyUncleDown

I think, hey, everybody has a right to change their mind.

Johnny Van Zant

ChangeMindThinkRightHeyI Think

My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.

Dominique Moceanu

ParentsMeFreeLovedThreeRun

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Boris Vallejo

YourselfSchoolLearnDoingYouWay

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