Best Philip Marlowe Quotes

#1. Generally, the bigger the budget, the less interesting the characters become.

Matt Damon

#2. The world will give you relief once ina while, a brief time out; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, were somebody dabs mrecy on your beat-up life.

Lily Owens

#3. time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

Anonymous

#4. The kid poured him another straight rye and I think he doctored it with water down behind the bar because when he came up with it he looked as guilty as if he'd kicked his grandmother.

Raymond Chandler

#5. The word spinster hid behind it a blazing freedom.

Lauren Groff

#6. With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don't really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I'm going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some.

Lee Pace

#7. It's very difficult, I would imagine, to distinguish father and daughter. And maybe some of it comes as I'm doing my thing and my father being a very strong political African figure for so many years. Whatever he does is almost like some kind of cloud on top.

Isabel Dos Santos

#8. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

Raymond Chandler

#9. I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself.

Pippa Middleton

#10. He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

Stephen King

#11. No visible scars. Hair dark brown, some gray. Eyes brown. Height six feet, one half inch. Weight about one ninety. Name Philip Marlowe. Occupation private detective.

Raymond Chandler

#12. Now, if most Americans want to go out and buy a car, they don't say, you know, 'I think I'll call the chairman of the board of Ford Motor Company and see what kind of deal we can make here.'

Jeb Hensarling

#13. Never see them again. Surely, a couple so young, so

Philippa Gregory

#14. I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets.

Raymond Chandler

#15. But sometimes when you are getting nowhere, you have to give the wasps' nest a wallop

Benjamin Black

#16. Dream big; try hard; fail big; keep hope alive.

Debasish Mridha

#17. If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat - just to see what ran out of it."
"Caterpillar blood," I said.

Raymond Chandler

#18. Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

Toi Derricotte