Sam Spade Quotes

Sam Spade: When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it. ~ Dashiell Hammett

And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it." - Detective Sam Spade ~ Dashiell Hammett

When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere.
Sam Spade ~ Dashiell Hammett

Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental. ~ Lucille Kallen

I brush off my skirt and notice that a small trail of blood runs from a nasty scrape on my knee. I don't even care. I'm still on an oh-so-sweet adrenaline high.

Porter grins, eyebrows high. "Damn, Bailey. You took him downtown. Full-on atomic drop body slam. I had no idea you had it in you."

Me neither, to be honest. "No one steals from Sam Spade and gets away with it," I say.

He holds his hand up, and I slap it ~ Jenn Bennett

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.
Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? ~ Dashiell Hammett

I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum ~ Dennis Lehane

Sam Spade is as gray as the economic skies over America and moves through the story as cool and slick as a Teflon cat. ~ Stephen Sullivan

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

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

If you just focus on the trees swaying outside the window without distraction, you will see your true face. ~ Sam Harris

I should have resisted somehow. I should've done something, anything. Instead, I just stood there and let them ... touch me." Sam's face crumpled with disgust at the thought.
"No man has the power to resist their charms. You did what any other man would have done."
"But that's just it, isn't it?" He sat up angrily. "I'm not just any other man. In fact, I'm no man at all. I'm a demon."
"You are a man, and a good one. Have you even considered that your demon blood would make you just as susceptible to their charms? ~ Phillip W. Simpson

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man. ~ Sam Kinison

When you put your best foot forward in this life, you will never put a foot wrong when stepping out. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out. ~ Sam Kinison

I'm not a shouter, and I'm not a bully. ~ Sam Taylor-Johnson

When you are truely,deeply and madly in love you do things that are beyond the depth of feelings. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances. ~ Sam Horn

The narcissist cannot admit that he had toiled and sweated to achieve his goal and, with this confession, shatter his alleged omnipotence and grandiose False Self. He must belittle every accomplishment of his and make it appear to have been a routine triviality. This is intended to support the dreamland quality of his fragmented personality. But it also prevents him from deriving the psychological benefits which usually accrue to to goal attainment…
The narcissist is doomed to roam a circular labyrinth. When he does achieve something, he underestimates it in order to enhance his own sense of omnipotence, perfection, and brilliance. When he fails, he dare not face reality. He escapes to the land of no narratives where life is nothing but a meaningless wasteland. The narcissist whiles his life away. ~ Sam Vaknin

Start thinking about making a success, you have a successful destiny. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Marcus?" he asked a moment later, while Marcus lowered them to the ground. "Do you like Sam?" "Aye, I do," Marcus told him. "I love her." "But Tabitha said one of the Whites told her you don't love anything." "Well." Marcus kissed the top of his head. "The White was wrong. ~ Paula Quinn

You must build your character before the age of 40 because there is a destiny you must discover at the age of 40. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully-and the evidence that other photographers have done so-that keep us taking pictures. ~ Sam Abell

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it. ~ Sam Levenson

Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change. ~ Sam Walton

Leaders do not talk too much! They are smart people who have strategy,milestones,action,resources and a team. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden. ~ Sam Kinison

The biggest PR hack you can do, is not hire a PR firm. ~ Sam Altman

In city of the dead are multifarious and innumerous millions who turned up their toes to the daisies sans of sanity and sagacity of their phantom of the mind realization. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

I remember being intrigued by the idea of school-in-a-box, just-add-water-and-Sam. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most important element of any poem is the part that is left unsaid. So the poetry frames the experience that lies beyond naming. ~ Sam Hamill

A King's Kid do not eat on the street because he knows who he is; a chosen generation who manifests the CV of the Kingdom ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Think if you love someone, you make an effort to suppress habits of yours that displease them, right? But those habits or inclinations are still there. Sam, ~ Charlaine Harris

I could probably fake setting someone on fire... After last year I figured I'd better be prepared. - Sam ~ Holly Black

I like kissing you," he whispered roughly, dipping his forehead against hers. "I like kissing you, too," Sam breathed. I am mad with desire for you. He told her silently. But there's more to it. I want to make you happy. I find that I'm not happy unless you are. What does it mean? She wasn't sure what it meant, but she liked it. ~ Paula Quinn

Sometimes," Sam says, "I can't tell when you're lying."
"I never lie," I lie. ~ Holly Black

Camille's eyes fluttered and then closed. The cake was warm and her fork went down again. "Oh," she said quietly.
There was a time I cared: a meat, a vegetable, a starch, some cake. Life had an order, but now the point only seemed to be eating. Here was my daughter, eating, devouring, she was almost through with the cake.
"Did you make this with honey?" Camille asked. There was something in her voice I nearly recognized. It sounded like interest, kindness.
"I did."
"Because sometimes-" She couldn't finish her sentence without stopping for another bite. "You use brown sugar?"
"It's another recipe."
"I like the honey."
"The problems they're having with bees these days," Sam began, but I held up my hand and it silenced him. There was too much pleasure in the moment to hear about the plight of the bees.
My mother took a long, last sip of her drink and then went to the counter to get the cake, the knife, and three more plates. "First the two of you are having a drink on a Tuesday, now we're all eating cake before we finish our dinner." She cut four pieces and gave the first one to Camille, whose plate was empty.
"It's madness. Anarchy. It must make you wonder what's coming next," Sam said.
My mother handed me my plate. I don't eat that much cake, but I never turn down a slice.
The four of us ate, pretending it was a salad course. Camille was right to pick up on the honey. It was the undertone, the melody of the cake. It was no ~ Jeanne Ray

Did something happen to you in the dark, Sam?'. They always wanted to know. Because they assumed all fear must come from a thing or a place. An event. Cause and effect. Like fear was part of an algebra equation.
No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear. Because fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.
-Sam ~ Michael Grant

The United States government will not tolerate any disrespect for the holy Koran. What form our government's intolerance will take remains unspecified. I await a knock on the door. ~ Sam Harris

Perhaps one day we will do "everything that we can to protect our people and the timeless values that we stand for." But today, we won't even honestly describe the motivations of our enemies. And in the act of lying to ourselves, we continue to pay lip service to the very delusions that empower them. ~ Sam Harris

I don't see that we have much choice," I said, "since we don't have anyone who can grow wings."
"I will push you off this mountain," Sam warned.
"All right," Blitzen decided, "let's try it. I mean the rune, not pushing Magnus off the mountain. ~ Rick Riordan

It is always now. This might sound trite, but it is the truth. It's not quite true as a matter of neurology, because our minds are built upon layers of inputs whose timing we know must be different.11 But it is true as a matter of conscious experience. The reality of your life is always now. And to realize this, we will see, is liberating. In fact, I think there is nothing more important to understand if you want to be happy in this world. But we spend most of our lives forgetting this truth - overlooking it, fleeing it, repudiating it. And the horror is that we succeed. We manage to avoid being happy while struggling to become happy, fulfilling one desire after the next, banishing our fears, grasping at pleasure, recoiling from pain - and thinking, interminably, about how best to keep the whole works up and running. ~ Sam Harris

The opiate scourge might never have spread as quickly had these rural areas where it all started possessed a diversity of small retailers, whose owners had invested their lives in their stores, knew the addicts personally, and stood ready to defend against them. Walmart allowed junkie shoplifters to play Santa to the pill economy, filling dealers' orders for toys and presents in exchange for dope. ~ Sam Quinones

I'm conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that's a lifetime decision, and I always feel like, 'I hope you don't regret this a couple years from now when you get tired of that song.' ~ Sam Hunt

Sometimes I definitely feel a sense of accomplishment but it's never after accomplishing something. ~ Sam Pink

There is now little question that how one uses one's attention, moment to moment, largely determines what kind of person one becomes. Our minds - and lives - are largely shaped by how we use them. ~ Sam Harris

We are all prisoners of our thoughts. ~ Sam Harris

Hi! Hello! I'm Sam - Samantha Abrams. This is my fiancé, Ian Fletcher. OH MY GOD MY LAST NAME IS GOING TO BE FLETCHER! I'M NOT GOING TO BE FIRST IN ROLL CALL ANYMORE! ~ R.S. Grey

This day and age is a day of Achievement & age of Success! Today is a Gift, we call it Present ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Sam, no!" Edilio snapped.
Sam missed a step, then stopped. He looked at Edilio, puzzled.
"We're scattered. And we can't risk you. You die and the light dies with you."
"Are you out of your mind? You think I'm going to let Drake come in here and take Diana?"
"Not you, Sam. Dekka, yes. Orc, yes. He's out there, too. And send Jack as well. Anyone but you."
Sam looked like he'd been punched. Like someone had knocked the wind out of him. He blinked and started to say something and stopped.
"You aren't replaceable, Sam. Figure it out, okay? It's going dark and you make light. So this isn't going to be your battle. Not now. It's on the rest of us to step up. ~ Michael Grant

I was just an animal lover. Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people - that's our mission. ~ Sam Simon