Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe Quotes

#1. And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.

Ted Koppel

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

Raymond Chandler

#3. Commitment is Circumstances

Leju Thomas

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

Benjamin Black

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

Raymond Chandler

#6. Music begins and ends in the air - it's got to be shared.

Errollyn Wallen

#7. The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

Matthew Arnold

#8. 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

#9. The Bee Gees no longer exist.

Barry Gibb

#10. Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

David LaChapelle

#11. You know what happens to sex in marriage? Instead of inviting desire, you monitor it. Especially men: You let her sleep late, you take the kids to the park, and all that time you're thinking, "Tonight I'll get some." That doesn't work.

Esther Perel

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. You've had your warning, Cabal. Now, prepare to face the terrible arcane wrath of Maleficarus! Somewhere, a sheep bleated and quite ruined the effect.

Jonathan L. Howard

#15. Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.

Alex Comfort

#16. When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

David Starr Jordan

#17. Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

Eartha Kitt