Quotes About The Maltese Falcon

#1. To swipe the immortal lines uttered by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, a great mystery should take the lid off life and let [you] look at the works.

Dashiell Hammett

#2. Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.

Robert B. Parker

#3. I certainly wish you would have invented a more reasonable story. I felt distinctly like an idiot repeating it. Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon)

Dashiell Hammett

#4. People are remarkably good at doing what they want to do.

Joe Little

#5. I'm a nervous wreck. If it's a 20-day shoot, at lunchtime on the first day, I'm thinking "Only 19 and a half days to go ... I can make it!"

Guy Maddin

#6. When hunting a Maltese Falcon, catch it, but don't scratch it!

Anthony Marais

#7. You're a good man, sister

Humphrey Bogart

#8. The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

Billy Gibbons

#9. Gutman smiled benignly at him and said: Well, Wilmer, I'm sorry indeed to lose you, and I want you to know that I couldn't be any fonder of you if you were my own son; but - well, by Gad! - if you lose a son it's possible to get another - and there's only one Maltese falcon.

Dashiell Hammett

#10. I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

John Fahey

#11. I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!

Orson Scott Card

#12. Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.

William J. Clinton

#13. People go wrong in their fellowships before they go wrong in their doctrine.

John R. Rice

#14. I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon. (Kasper Gutman)

Dashiell Hammett

#15. When there are no gods to judge, who can say what is right or wrong? There

Luke Scull

#16. Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

Brian Tracy

#17. I think we need to have more women in the Republican Party talking about what it is we're trying to do for families.

Elizabeth Emken

#18. I'm a Canadian who can't vote, so far be it from me to speak for what Americans want. But, I am also a close observer of politics and media in this country, and the intersection of both - and how both intersect, and overlap with, each other.

Rachel Sklar

#19. Ryan, when did you get a girlfriend?" his sister asked.
"She's not my girlfriend, Kaylen," Ryan replied. "Go away.

S. Walden