FastSaying

Another man whose social life has ruined him.


Dashiell Hammett

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

He is probably the premiere mystery writer today. He's our generation's Dashiell Hammett.
DAVE TAYLOR With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' the...
RIAN JOHNSON Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune......
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirti...
CHARLES FRAZIER With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.
DASHIELL HAMMETT I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
DASHIELL HAMMETT She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily.
DASHIELL HAMMETT The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting t...
DASHIELL HAMMETT [Yet he went on to make more than 50 feature films. After winning an Academy Award in 1976 for his r...
DASHIELL HAMMETT Lost Stories
DASHIELL HAMMETT Who shot him? I asked.
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun...
DASHIELL HAMMETT It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with...
DASHIELL HAMMETT Who shot him? I asked.The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.
DASHIELL HAMMETT The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with l...
DASHIELL HAMMETT I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.
DASHIELL HAMMETT I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other ...
DASHIELL HAMMETT Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.
DASHIELL HAMMETT The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid sh...
DASHIELL HAMMETT I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Thanks for the information about what we call business.
DASHIELL HAMMETT I like women. I really like women.
DASHIELL HAMMETT People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But ...
DASHIELL HAMMETT The roof might fall in; anything could happen.
DASHIELL HAMMETT You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.
DASHIELL HAMMETT It's awfully easy to be in love in jail.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist...
DASHIELL HAMMETT ...I guess I can put two and two together."
"Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometim...
DASHIELL HAMMETT The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Dijo que las cosas no podían seguir por ese camino. Éramos todos hombres sensatos, hombres razonab...
DASHIELL HAMMETT When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any differenc...
DASHIELL HAMMETT She stared at him dully and said: “I don’t like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn’t like cro...
DASHIELL HAMMETT Dorothy asked timidly: "Did his wife say anything?
"She sent her love to you."
Nora said: ...
DASHIELL HAMMETT Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.
TIMOTHY NOAH A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
WILLIAM JAMES It's heartbreaking. Losing my mum has ruined his life.
LAUREN BELL A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
LUCIUS ACCIUS A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
LUCIUS ACCIUS TELEPHUS Another fine day ruined by responsibilities...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
MADONNA CICCONE Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
MADONNA Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
MADONNA Poor is the man, whose pleasures depend on the permission of another
MADONNA Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
JOSH BILLINGS Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined
JOSH BILLINGS Disgraced like a man whose own pet bites him.
MALAGASY PROVERB Never trust a man whose dog barks at him.
VIKRANT PARSAI The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
OSCAR WILDE I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's &...
AVI Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
JOSH BILLINGS Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Man has been adjudged a social animal.
FRANCES WRIGHT Kirk Hammett, lead guitar and attempted vocals
KIRK HAMMETT Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in li...
JOSEPH CONRAD Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love--and to put its trust in lif...
JOSEPH CONRAD The low profile of a man does not mean he is nobody
ETC WANYANWU History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth...
VICTOR HUGO So I take my lover, my king, and I put him in a pedestal and I cut him down. A man, like the ones wh...
ALAYA DAWN JOHNSON A principled man is he whose response to life is outstanding
SUNDAY ADELAJA I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longe...
SAMUEL BECKETT One man has enthusiasm !0 minutes, another !0 days, but it is the man who has it !0 years who makes ...
EDWARD B. BUTLER One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, C...
WILLIAM COWPER Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
EUGENE O'NEILL Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
EUGENE O'NEILL Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him...
JOHN KEATS One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 year...
EDWARD B. BUTLER When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
DON MARQUIS When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
DON MARQUIS Our social life has definitely picked up.
BOB LARSON A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS We have all had someone whose life has been touched.
MARILYN WILSON Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far b...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on...
H. L. MENCKEN When your sun rises,uplift another,so that by the time it sets,another whose sun has just risen will...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
JEAN PAUL Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
DON MARQUIS Pity the sorrow of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have brought him to your door.
THOMAS MOSS A rich man is not a man without problems but a man whose faith has conquered the problems even when ...
IKECHUKWU IZUAKOR Bhutan - having looked at its neighbor, Nepal, which is overpopulated, has ruined its environment an...
GEORGE ARCHIBALD [The attorney says Flores' reputation has been ruined. He adds that he] Can't go anywhere without pe...
ANTHONY FLORES Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.
PHIL SIMMS But I remain'd, whose hopes were dim,
Whose life, whose thoughts were little worth,
To wan...
ALFRED TENNYSON For the one whose association improves, everything indeed improves. Everything indeed gets ruined, f...
DADA BHAGWAN I faked my man and got around him. There was another man standing there but I just kind of went over...
STANLEY ASUMNU No matter how hard we try,nature has gifted every man an enemy to torment him in life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.
DAVY JONES The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that a...
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON What man, desirous of life, would injure them to whose support the ,three worlds and the gods ever o...
GURU NANAK A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be built on ten thousand ruined men wh...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which...
PHILLIPS BROOKS We feel completely vindicated by the sentencing. This is somebody who ruins lives, he ruined my life...
JOHN ATKINSON There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has gro...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another. [Whose house is of glass, must not thr...
GEORGE HERBERT

More Dashiell Hammett

With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.
DASHIELL HAMMETT I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
DASHIELL HAMMETT She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily.
DASHIELL HAMMETT The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting t...
DASHIELL HAMMETT [Yet he went on to make more than 50 feature films. After winning an Academy Award in 1976 for his r...
DASHIELL HAMMETT Lost Stories
DASHIELL HAMMETT Who shot him? I asked.
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun...
DASHIELL HAMMETT It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with...
DASHIELL HAMMETT Who shot him? I asked.The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.
DASHIELL HAMMETT The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with l...
DASHIELL HAMMETT I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.
DASHIELL HAMMETT I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other ...
DASHIELL HAMMETT Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.
DASHIELL HAMMETT The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid sh...
DASHIELL HAMMETT I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Thanks for the information about what we call business.
DASHIELL HAMMETT I like women. I really like women.
DASHIELL HAMMETT People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But ...
DASHIELL HAMMETT The roof might fall in; anything could happen.
DASHIELL HAMMETT You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.
DASHIELL HAMMETT It's awfully easy to be in love in jail.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist...
DASHIELL HAMMETT ...I guess I can put two and two together."
"Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometim...
DASHIELL HAMMETT The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Dijo que las cosas no podían seguir por ese camino. Éramos todos hombres sensatos, hombres razonab...
DASHIELL HAMMETT When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any differenc...
DASHIELL HAMMETT She stared at him dully and said: “I don’t like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn’t like cro...
DASHIELL HAMMETT Dorothy asked timidly: "Did his wife say anything?
"She sent her love to you."
Nora said: ...
DASHIELL HAMMETT She had similar characteristics to mammals. She was cranky and demanding.
LEE DASHIELL It would be like us losing our sense of smell.
LEE DASHIELL The mating was ferocious. Every day for two weeks. Who knows what they did at night when we went hom...
LEE DASHIELL That is sediment that came from the contaminated industrial canal. The sediments in the industrial c...
PAM DASHIELL For 'Death Magnetic,' I used what I always use, which is my standard touring rack, which is ...
KIRK HAMMETT For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beel...
KIRK HAMMETT Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don't know why....
KIRK HAMMETT For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on w...
KIRK HAMMETT When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp...
KIRK HAMMETT After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watchi...
KIRK HAMMETT For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outs...
KIRK HAMMETT I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my le...
KIRK HAMMETT The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing bu...
KIRK HAMMETT Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was o...
KIRK HAMMETT Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.
KIRK HAMMETT Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, g...
KIRK HAMMETT When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion beca...
KIRK HAMMETT Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the insid...
KIRK HAMMETT A good horror movie should have peaks and valleys, a good horror movie should move you emotionally; ...
KIRK HAMMETT The only problem I've had with my Vox wah is its tendency to move around on the floor. So now it...
KIRK HAMMETT If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.
KIRK HAMMETT I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becom...
KIRK HAMMETT Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has...
KIRK HAMMETT I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were whe...
KIRK HAMMETT I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, ou...
KIRK HAMMETT The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and ho...
KIRK HAMMETT Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.
KIRK HAMMETT My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
KIRK HAMMETT It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar...
KIRK HAMMETT On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took t...
KIRK HAMMETT I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for fiv...
KIRK HAMMETT I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I ju...
KIRK HAMMETT My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
KIRK HAMMETT I'm very fortunate to be doing the thing I do best, which is play guitar. There aren't many other th...
KIRK HAMMETT I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy.
KIRK HAMMETT We played our best baseball in regional last year. We will build on each week and hope to be playing...
BRAD HAMMETT Brent Swart and Caleb Wilson are expected to start and be solid. Many other will compete for playing...
BRAD HAMMETT Strengths are our pitching overall, pitching depth and defense.
BRAD HAMMETT I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!
KIRK HAMMETT I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums...
KIRK HAMMETT Kirk Hammett, lead guitar and attempted vocals
KIRK HAMMETT I'm not into that whole Satanic thing. It's just something to fall back on if you don't have much im...
KIRK HAMMETT Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.
KIRK HAMMETT We're the underdogs. We haven't had a top ten hit, and we look like a bunch of bums out there. Amids...
KIRK HAMMETT I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just w...
KIRK HAMMETT Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.
KIRK HAMMETT A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.
KIRK HAMMETT A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome rever...
KIRK HAMMETT We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.
KIRK HAMMETT Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo...
KIRK HAMMETT Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it's destroyed music. It'...
KIRK HAMMETT