Famous Quotes & Sayings

Raymond Chandler

He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.

Raymond Chandler

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

Raymond Chandler

You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the jail house. Once in a long while you get dead. Every other month you decide to give it up and find some sensible occupation while you can still walk without shaking your head. Then the door buzzer rings and you open the inner door to the waiting room and there stands a new face with a new problem, a new load of grief, and a small piece of money.

Raymond Chandler

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

Raymond Chandler

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

Regis Philbin

Im involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

Regina Spektor

You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.

Willie Morris

When I started driving our old four-door green DeSoto, I always took Skip on my trips around town. I would get Skip to prop himself against the steering wheel, his black head peering out of the windshield, while I crouched out of sight under the dashboard. Slowing the car to ten or fifteen, I would guide the steering wheel with my right hand while Skip, with his paws, kept it steady. As we drove by the Blue Front Café, I could hear one of the men shout: "Look at that ol' dog drivin' a car!"

Willie Geist

I hope I pass on my dad's good humor, work ethic and lack of self-seriousness. Our house was always a fun place where you'd get knocked around quickly if you took yourself too seriously.

Willie Geist

An ideal day starts with putting on a good, smart, fun show where I learn something and ends with me fending off atomic knee drops from my two kids in our no-holds-barred pillow fight/steel cage matches. They are a ruthless tag team.

William Zinsser

What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.

William Sadler

You often hear this about directors, how its like having the best set of toys. This fabulous train set, the biggest box of toys that a kid could possibly have. The best directors look like a kid having more fun than youre supposed to have.

William Safire

The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you're breaking.

William S. Burroughs

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

William S. Burroughs

The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "Wouldn't you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to act in any other way. Dope fiends are sick people who cannot act other than they do. A rabid dog cannot choose but bite.

William S. Burroughs

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

William McDonough

Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it's wireless!

Vincent D'Onofrio

When I was younger, it was about doing something that made me nervous. Now, it's for many different reasons. I've had the opportunity to have fun. I don't know why that is, but I like it.

Vincent D'Onofrio

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

Vinnie Jones

Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win

Woody Hayes

The bowl games are only supposed to be a fun reward.

Woody Guthrie

Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.

Woody Harrelson

I've been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It's been all good. I'm obviously much healthier

Woody Harrelson

I was on my bus, and on my bus I have a yoga swing. Jennifes comes on, and she goes, ' Hi, Woody, I'm J--- is that a sex swing?' Her first sentence to me.

Woodrow Wilson

I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.

Woody Allen

If I can play a scene in a master shot, I always prefer it. And the actors always prefer it. It's fun to look at on the screen, the actors get a chance to sink their teeth into something substantial, and it's economically helpful.

Woody Allen

I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.

Woody Allen

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

Woody Allen

How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?

Woody Allen

I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.

Woody Allen

All things are possible, except skiing through a revolving door.