Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'


Raymond E. Feist

  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

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON
It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON
I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES
It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON
Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON
It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. A...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN
I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX
I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT
I never learned to be a writer. I never took screenwriting courses. I never read anyone's script...
DEREK CIANFRANCE
I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people'...
BRUCE NASH
I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to h...
PETRA NEMCOVA
Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that'...
JIMMY PAGE
You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're ...
RAY LEWIS
We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, p...
JOYCE MEYER
It's always inspiring to me to meet people who feel that they can make a difference in the world...
MARIA SHRIVER
Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH
It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It'...
ALAN ALDA
I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of wor...
F. GARY GRAY
At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, &...
KARL PILKINGTON
I could do another tour, make a record that's very similar, do similar venues. Or I could make a...
FLUME
About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS
You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN
I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL
It's good to have a foothold in reality, a base somewhere that's always been a base. Sharman...
SEAN BIGGERSTAFF
It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote...
CHARLIE HUNTER
People don't know how to place me in their consciousness. They think, 'Oh, you must be here ...
RUPAUL
Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about ...
ELVIS STOJKO
A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does thi...
FEDE ALVAREZ
I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to ch...
TOM BRADY
It's something that I love about this business and that scares me about this business, but in a ...
CANDICE ACCOLA
Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write...
RICKEY MEDLOCKE
Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs,...
ELLIE GOULDING
Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sand...
ANDY RODDICK
The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and g...
MIGUEL SYJUCO
It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a who...
VIGGO MORTENSEN
And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me...
IAN MCDIARMID
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa...
JUNE CARTER CASH
That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whe...
ORNETTE COLEMAN
It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a...
N. K. JEMISIN
Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about charac...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you&#...
DOROTHY STRATTEN
It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad;...
HARVEY KEITEL
If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there t...
GEORGE STRAIT
I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than...
GARRETT DILLAHUNT
I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than ...
GARRET DILLAHUNT
For 'Inhuman,' it's a 'chess game' series. You have a lot of pieces moving diffe...
CHARLES SOULE
I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that&...
T. C. BOYLE
There's something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That's h...
EMILE HIRSCH
I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON
What's nice about 'Skinwalkers' is it's allowing an audience to see a different Indi...
ADAM BEACH
Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendous...
MAX LANDIS
I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN
I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls....
ALICE MUNRO
You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things th...
HARRY STYLES
There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or t...
PADDY CONSIDINE
There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood's kind of a throwback...
MONICA POTTER
I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to ...
GARRETT DILLAHUNT
I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos ...
MARK ZUCKERBERG
Some of my fans don't really like it when I respond to people who say things that are trying to ...
RICKIE FOWLER
An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting...
DAVID LYNCH
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop...
ANN HOOD
It's not like I try to be different, but every single person is unique, and every single person ...
LINDSEY STIRLING
I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what thin...
ROBERT SMITH
I think about the structure, sure. I think about what's going to happen, and how it's going ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI
There's been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it's 'E.T.,' &#...
DAVID S. GOYER
It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as g...
SAM ELLIOTT
We need to take care of people that are out there busting their butts trying to make it; that's ...
COLE SWINDELL
I'm not the best at choosing what's good and what's bad. I wouldn't even know what&#...
ASAP ROCKY
I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, ...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR
You know that I had heard so many times people say things like, 'You could never write 'Harr...
CASSANDRA CLARE
I don't write a whole lot about one person that exists in reality; it's usually characterist...
JASON ISBELL
You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the serious...
EDWARD HIRSCH
My work is all about how we consume. To me it's important to know where things come from. Genera...
CHRISTIEN MEINDERTSMA
It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about somet...
AVRIL LAVIGNE
I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to b...
NATHANIEL RATELIFF
I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and c...
MADONNA CICCONE
I'm not going to go to a producer that's going to take me in a studio and charge me my whole...
FRENCH MONTANA
Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, lik...
ROSEANNE BARR
I just feel like people like a little break. Especially at 12:37 at night, you go, like, 'I'...
JIMMY FALLON
I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there a...
ED SHEERAN
I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that a...
DANNY ELFMAN
The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always wri...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are...
JIM LEHRER
With some artists, I've noticed that after their songs have been licensed, on their next album y...
PRISCILLA AHN
I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to sa...
DAVID BOWIE
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and charact...
ERIC BROWN
You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING
You just suddenly think that there's something quite childish about acting. Basically, it's ...
KEVIN WHATELY
For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. ...
ZARA LARSSON
Anybody who sits down to write, and they think 'thriller,' maybe shouldn't be thinking t...
DAVID MORRELL
People always ask me, 'Hey, what's Matt Damon like?' He's just a dude, just a really...
MICHAEL JOSEPH KELLY
I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or...
DONALD MILLER
I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's h...
KATIE COURIC
I've learned a lot just being around LeBron. People say things about him all the time, but he wo...
BEN SIMMONS
Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN
She's true to herself and she's determined. She has things going against her, but she forges...
MOLLY SHANNON
My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a s...
JOHN BOYEGA
That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences a...
IDINA MENZEL

More Raymond E. Feist

The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices wer...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go wit...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
Life is problems. Living is solving problems.
RAYMOND E. FEIST
The ways of the heart are complex.” He looked out at the ocean again. “The waves churn and break...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there w...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
I don't like fantasy where a king snaps his fingers and suddenly a whole army appears and goes o...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
You must step forward, Arutha. You will never be the man for whom you were named, and you will never...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
All the Midkemia stories are part of a 'history of an imaginary place,' so I've always k...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
You've learned something very young, Prince, something that even older men rarely understand. You've...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
Tragic to kill a friend in battle by mistake when there are so many enemies to go around.
RAYMOND E. FEIST
Old enemies must be friends when a greater evil looms.
RAYMOND E. FEIST
Trying to guess the enemy’s next move is useful; trying to guess what they are thinking is pointle...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
It was an interesting dilemma and with all such dilemmas an opportunity might emerge. 'How best to t...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
Just remember that in most things, right or wrong depends on where you’re standing at the moment. ...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
You can be as sharp-tongued as a viper, but you can also be as sweet as wild clover honey.
RAYMOND E. FEIST
My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No....
RAYMOND E. FEIST
All his life he has been in the shadow of Grandfather, and of the man for whom he was named."
....
RAYMOND E. FEIST
That was not the professional hatred of one warrior for another in the heat of battle, in which even...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
Never think taking a life is easy. Do that and in a way they win.
RAYMOND E. FEIST
The trick to not being discovered until it is too late is to become part of the expected surrounding...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with ...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
The pride Kaspar had seen in his father’s eyes, despite the admonishing words about foolish acts, ...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
- Като дете изпитвах същото по клоните на големите дърв...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
Ишап, морето е голямо, а лодката ми - малка. Имай милост �...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
The order of the universe is like a gem with many facets, and we see only one, that which reflects t...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
It’s tempting to think of yourself as powerful when those around you are far less so, but compared...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as ...
FEIST
I live and die by puns.
FEIST
On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. An...
FEIST
Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be...
FEIST
There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't und...
FEIST
Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
FEIST
I get really scared about how the Internet is shifting and changing everyone's minds, and the wa...
FEIST
I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult ...
FEIST
You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song.
FEIST
You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess....
FEIST
'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries arou...
FEIST
The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in...
FEIST
When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it ab...
FEIST
As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is ...
FEIST
And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little...
FEIST
Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.
FEIST
There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight fo...
FEIST
There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it ...
FEIST
Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatt...
FEIST
'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing ...
FEIST
I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There&...
FEIST
When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-fl...
FEIST
Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky b...
FEIST
When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It'...
FEIST
There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces toge...
FEIST
So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies...
FEIST
The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what ...
FEIST
I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about...
FEIST
Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You re...
FEIST
After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike abili...
FEIST
I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, a...
FEIST
I much prefer to write everything by myself. It's kind of difficult. It's like getting undressed in ...
LESLIE FEIST
One of the things that is real neat to see is the start of the wheelchair race. That is really inspi...
CONNIE FEIST
The noise level from those women has been measured as being higher than a jet.
CONNIE FEIST
He suffered a high-ankle sprain, possibly a fracture.
CHRIS FEIST
It was a real honor to us. They endorse the sport at a national level and are known on the racing ci...
CONNIE FEIST
The real serious runners are at the front of the pack.
CONNIE FEIST
It's a real good experience. It's a huge event out there.
CONNIE FEIST
I'm in the countryside outside of Paris, in a beautiful old manor house. The studio is in the baseme...
LESLIE FEIST
'Let It Die' is more piano-based, organ-based and percussion-based. Live, the songs are more guitar-...
LESLIE FEIST
We were a duo on tour, but it was his music and his songs. I was kind of his Vanna White/singing par...
LESLIE FEIST
I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years...
RAYMOND BURR
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right butto...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would neve...
RAYMOND ARROYO
If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.
RAYMOND DUNCAN
I fell into acting by going to a callback for J.C. Penney with my two older brothers when I was 4 1/...
RAYMOND OCHOA
All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.
RAYMOND HULL
I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
It is not a fragrant world.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise stateme...
RAYMOND SMULLYAN
I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have...
RAYMOND CARVER
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
RAYMOND HULL
Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.
RAYMOND CARVER
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK
Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing.
RAYMOND RADIGUET
The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK
The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated pe...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
RAYMOND HULL
You must see first before you can believe.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I c...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude t...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL
What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the...
RAYMOND WILLIAMS
The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, no...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His functi...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more de...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes litera...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scho...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was...
RAYMOND WILLIAMS
Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL
A really good detective never gets married.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral gro...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Desire creates the power.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL
What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were d...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible ...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can m...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobod...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delive...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the highe...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The most prepared are the most dedicated.
RAYMOND BERRY
The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been an...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Its idea of production value is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artis...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have devel...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangli...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.....
RAYMOND CHANDLER
There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are peop...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. Th...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endle...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called signi...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After t...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must se...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
A good title is the title of a successful book.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your br...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
'Common sense is the guy that tells you that you ought to have your brakes relined last week before ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can ...
RAYMOND SPRUANCE
The more you reason the less you create.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the ma...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statem...
RAYMOND SMULLYAN
Don't let the University get in the way of your education.
RAYMOND BROWN
I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the l...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.
RAYMOND LOEWY
Among the most serious allegations a federal court can address are that an Executive agency has targ...
RAYMOND KETHLEDGE
I love being able to bring an animator's vision to life and give the breath to the voice of a ch...
RAYMOND OCHOA
Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.
RAYMOND FLOYD
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After t...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
RAYMOND QUENEAU
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
RAYMOND LOEWY
'No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.
RAYMOND ARROYO
Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.
RAYMOND CARVER
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
RAYMOND QUENEAU
I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man...
RAYMOND BURR
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical i...
RAYMOND CARVER
The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.
RAYMOND LOEWY
I don't overeat. I only eat one meal a day... but my body has been one of those that has almost ...
RAYMOND BURR
I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look l...
RAYMOND LOEWY
Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other...
RAYMOND LOEWY
I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned mos...
RAYMOND KELLY
Think Indonesia and tourism, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Bali. Think golf hol...
RAYMOND BONNER
Sydney's most famous beach is Bondi. At its southern end is Bondi Baths, an eight-lane, 50-meter...
RAYMOND BONNER
I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the re...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in ever...
RAYMOND MOODY
But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I cou...
RAYMOND CARVER
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
RAYMOND QUENEAU
It's very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job...
RAYMOND AUBRAC
There are no accomplished golf tour operators in Indonesia, so a golf holiday there is a do-it-yours...
RAYMOND BONNER
No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it u...
RAYMOND MOODY
No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL
Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the othe...
RAYMOND LOEWY
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
RAYMOND LINDQUIST
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon ...
RAYMOND HERZOG
To give your best is to receive the best.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL
She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
When in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
California, the department store state.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
In a developing country like Ghana, the issue about standardized testing is not different, because a...
RAYMOND OBENG
I can understand that Muslims find the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in the Norwegian weekly.....
RAYMOND JOHANSEN
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any sta...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking a...
RAYMOND ARROYO
The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, footbal...
JONATHAN RAYMOND
People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?'...
RAYMOND BURR