Dashiell Hammet Quotes

#1. I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

Irwin Shaw

#2. All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

Fulton J. Sheen

#3. The journey of the flame is what brings the Games closer to society and allows society to take part in the Games.

Jacques Rogge

#4. I believe that shows should be shot where they take place.

Gabriel Macht

#5. Plato ... says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution.

Allan Bloom

#6. She stared at him dully and said: "I don't like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn't like crooks that are stool-pigeons, and if I liked crooks that are stool-pigeons, I still wouldn't like you." She turned to the outer door.

Dashiell Hammett

#7. We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won't flinch at when they find.

Andrea Gibson

#8. Overcome the Empyrean; hurl
Heaven and Earth out of their places,
That in the same calamity
Brother and brother, friend and friend,
Family and family,
City and city may contend.

William Butler Yeats