Top 100 Quotes About Chandler
#1. There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,' but there's also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It's now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit.
Matthew Perry
#2. Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley.
Ollie Chandler in Deception
Randy Alcorn
#3. I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.
Megan Abbott
#4. I've always slightly preferred Spade to Marlowe, probably just because I thought Hammett was cooler than Chandler. He was leftwing, his name shortened to Dash rather than Ray, and he didn't smoke a pipe or like cats.
Mark Billingham
#5. All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.
Donna Leon
#6. Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.
Ross Macdonald
#7. I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.
Ross Macdonald
#8. Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.
Lou Reed
#9. And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.
Connie Willis
#10. Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.
Charles Frazier
#11. If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins.
Kinky Friedman
#12. The case of Cecily Chandler is a perfect example of how privileged people get over on the system," the young man said. "Harry Chandler had a famous defense attorney for a lawyer, a slick talker who probably played tennis with the judge.
James Patterson
#13. You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or a hundred other good novelists or poets than by seeing another round of John Ford revivals.
David Denby
#14. I ordered a hot chocolate and Chandler got a black coffee. He smiled over at me. "Still no love for coffee?"
I shook my head. "Nah, why have bitter and gross when I can have sweet and delicious?
Lisa Kessler
#16. Mrs. Chandler shouted after us, And I hope that was all-natural food coloring you put on my dog!
Lisa Lutz
#17. Chandler again: "I have never liked anyone who disliked cats, because I've always found an element of acute selfishness in their dispositions.
The New Yorker
#18. We don't come to Jesus because He makes life better. We come to Jesus because He's better than life. - Matt Chandler
Jan Elder
#19. Chris Chandler reminds me of my own self way back when -
listen to him Now!
Tom Paxton
#20. My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series I did a lot of studying before I wrote the first book. I learned police procedure, the California criminal law, and many areas outside my expertise.
Sue Grafton
#21. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen
Benjamin Franklin
#22. Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.
Steve Toltz
#23. A treat indeed, to read Raymond Chandler for the first time. I almost envied the man,
Lawrence Block
#24. The spirit of Woody Guthrie lives in the heart of
Chris Chandler.
Peter Yarrow
#25. I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.
William Gibson
#26. I think Kyle Chandler is something of a national treasure.
Ben Mendelsohn
#27. Difficult trainers were the ones most willing to take a chance with a green jockey, and Bill Chandler was a prince compared to Otto Laing.
Bev Pettersen
#28. If you take the best of Wayne Dyer and add it to the best of Anthony Robbins, what you would have would only be half as good as Steve Chandler.
Dale Dauten
#29. [Raymond Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.
The New Yorker
#30. I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.
Matthew Perry
#31. Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
James Ellroy
#32. No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.
David Halberstam
#33. Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.
Utah Phillips
#34. People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
Maggie Wheeler
#35. I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell right down the rabbit hole of crime fiction.
Robert Crais
#36. As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson McCullers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and so many others. As a kid Kipling and Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Robert E. Howard.
Joe R. Lansdale
#37. I'm very similar to Chandler in many ways, although Chandler is funnier than me, and Chandler absolutely hates his job whereas I absolutely love my job.
Matthew Perry
#38. Who the fuck are you?" Chandler demanded.
J. Lynn
#39. Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.
Matthew Perry
#40. It's kind of like wearing a baseball cup. I want to call it the Mangina." "That's a good name for it ... Where are the other vaginas you made?" Chandler brought over to me a plastic bag and dumped out all the failed vaginas on to his drafting table.
Jonathan Ames
#41. I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I'm a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others.
Adam Christopher
#42. A schoolmate of Matt Chandler's with the locker next to his: I need to tell you about Jesus. When do you want to do that?
Matt Chandler
#43. Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.
Paul Auster
#44. My greatest crush was Chandler from 'Friends.' And Goran Ivanisevic.
Miranda Hart
#45. Late summer is perfect for classic mysteries - think of Raymond Chandler's hot Santa Anas and Agatha Christie's Mediterranean resorts - while big ambitious works of nonfiction are best approached in September and early October, when we still feel energetic and the grass no longer needs to be cut.
Michael Dirda
#46. I thought about a line from Raymond Chandler in The Long Goodbye that I always remembered - and it somehow seemed to fit both of us. "There is no trap so deadly as the one you set for yourself.
R. G. Belsky
#47. I thought I was the last American weirdo then I met Chris Chandler.
Mojo Nixon
#48. I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.
Frank Miller
#49. I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
Mal Peet
#50. Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing.
Matthew Perry
#51. In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith.
Eleanor Catton
#52. Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make this debut novel a real winner.
Kathy Reichs
#53. Steve Chandler and Duane Black present an approach to management that promises to lower your stress level, increase your happiness and allow everyone in your organization to be more creative and productive.
Rolf Dobelli
#54. In February 1953, I was making a second picture with Jeff Chandler, one called War Arrow . Jeff was a real sweetheart, but acting with him was like acting with a broomstick.
Maureen O'Hara
#55. It's so much more than a child's story. - Matt Chandler on LIFE Today.
Matt Chandler
#56. Joel Chandler Harris, who created a multi billion dollar industry, everything from his books, to Disney's "Song of the South" based upon the Uncle Remus stories. He got his start by transcribing the stories of slave Informants. I'm sure that none them got a dime.
Ishmael Reed
#57. We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.
Andy Hertzfeld
#58. I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.
Matthew Perry
#59. I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.
Michael Connelly
#60. Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#61. I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.
William Lashner
#62. Mrs. Scott, do you mind my asking why the alarm wasn't on?" This was from Mayhew. He had taken out a notebook and pen. His shoulders were hunched, as if someone had asked him to mimic a character from a Raymond Chandler novel.
Karin Slaughter
#63. Los Angelesand all of southern california is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known.
Otis Chandler
#64. God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.
Matt Chandler
#65. I did it for you. I took in a pint of bourbon with me. She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term, I'll eat my spare tire, rim and all.
Raymond Chandler
#67. A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt.
Matt Chandler
#68. Children are perceptive, and if they see leaders and parents talk with boredom and apathy about faith yet become overtly passionate about sports teams or shopping malls, they will think the sport or the mall is more attractive than Jesus.
Matt Chandler
#69. I appreciate every team that wants me, and I take on every challenge.
Tyson Chandler
#70. On your death bed, you will not wish you had been more comfortable, or that you had found an even easier, softer pleasure zone to hide out in. You will wish you had ventured out more. That you had spoken up more. Tried some things. Reinvented yourself one more time.
Steve Chandler
#71. The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.
Matt Chandler
#72. I Never Met A Kentuckian Who Wasn't Either Thinking About Going Home Or Actually Going Home
Happy Chandler
#73. His clothes looked as if they had cost a great deal of money and had been slept in. (Guns at Cyrano's)
Raymond Chandler
#74. The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
Raymond Chandler
#76. Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
Raymond Chandler
#77. I feel like I'm a confident dude, so I feel like I can get away with wearing something bold.
Chandler Parsons
#78. The power to walk by faith in obedience is sourced in the grace of the gospel.
Matt Chandler
#79. He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't ... that's the thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that.
Matt Chandler
#80. I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.
Kyle Chandler
#81. The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased
the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.
Raymond Chandler
#82. I don't like your manner," Kingsley said in a voice you could have crack a Brazil nut on.
"That's all right," I said. "I'm not selling it.
Raymond Chandler
#83. The truth was, it was myself I couldn't trust, my eyes from betraying my heart.
Elizabeth Chandler
#84. Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. (1 Cor. 14:20)
Matt Chandler
#85. I'm tall with broad shoulders. And my waist is small. I'm into fashion, so I like the way clothes lay on me. I'm pretty much a normal person's size, just stretched out.
Tyson Chandler
#86. The coaches are working with me every day. And if you feel like the coach is behind you, you'll take some chances.?
Tyson Chandler
#87. When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.
Matt Chandler
#88. You can replace any pattern of behavior (or thought) with another. All it takes is relentless practice.
Steve Chandler
#90. I guess you can snap her garter any time you want to, without much of a struggle. But there's one thing you can be sure of - you're a late comer to the show.
Raymond Chandler
#91. He had told her he would love her forever, but he could not stay with her. From that time on, she couldn't see his glow or hear his voice in her head. Could he still hear her? Was he even aware of her existence?
Elizabeth Chandler
#92. I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.
Raymond Chandler
#93. Her hand was small and had shape, not the usual bony garden tool you see on women nowadays.
Raymond Chandler
#94. I really like Deadmau5 and Coyote Kisses. And Foo Fighters too, I like rock.
Chandler Riggs
#95. There is no error, no addiction with more power than the Cross of Christ.
Matt Chandler
#100. I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.
Raymond Chandler
