We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more.... I will squeeze her until you can hear the... pips squeak.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Billie Holiday's burned voice had as many shadows as lights,... a mournful candelabra against a sleek piano, the gardenia her signature under that ruined face. ... If you can't be free, be a mystery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat ei...ght hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours--all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My dear old grandfather Litcock said, just before they sprung the trap, you can't cheat an honest man. Never give a sucker an even... break or smarten up a chump.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can't build life the way you put blocks together, Toddy.... Did Knox teach you what makes the blood flow? Did he tell you how ...thoughts come and how they go, and why things are remembered and forgot?... What makes a thought start?... You don't know and you'll never know or understand.... Look, look at yourself. Could you be a doctor, a healing man, with the things those eyes have seen? There's a lot of knowledge in those eyes, but no understanding.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a ...design. You recognise it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »