My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―


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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