I've met a lot of murderers in my day, but Dr. Garth, whatever he is, is the first man I've ever met who was polite to me and stil...l made the chills run up and down my back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Vivian Rutledge: Speaking of horses, I like to play them myself. I like to see them work out a little first. See if they're front ...runners or come from behind. Philip Marlowe: Find out mine? Vivian Rutledge: I think so. Philip Marlowe: Go ahead. Vivian Rutledge: I'd say you don't like to be rated. You like to get in front, open up a lead, take a little breather in the back stretch, and, then, come home free. Philip Marlowe: You don't like to be rated yourself. Vivian Rutledge: I haven't met anyone yet that could do it. Any suggestions? Philip Marlowe: I can't tell till I've seen you over a distance of ground. You've got a touch of class, but I don't know how ... how far you can go. Vivian Rutledge: A lot depends on who's in the saddle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spe...nd all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed all... sides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The glorious dream of full father involvement in infant care will not become a widespread reality overnight. But it can happen, an...d it eventually will happen,... A lot of progress may take place in a short period of time if we just lighten up, step back, and give the guys a decent chance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...we went on to Douglas, Arizona, and ... got in ahead of time. I asked the pilot the reason, and he told me we had a tail wind, ...which meant fast going. Right then it struck me that a tail wind was a mighty handy thing to have, in a lot of ways besides flying. I could look back over my life and think of quite a few times when a tail wind would have been right useful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You go back and tell them that the New York State Supreme Court rules there's no Santa Claus. It's all over the papers. The kids r...ead it and they don't hang up their stockings. Now what happens to all the toys that are supposed to be in those stockings? Nobody buys them. The toy manufacturers are going to like that. So they have to lay off a lot of their employees. Union employees. Now you've got the C.I.O. and the A.F. of L. against you, and they're going to adore you for it. And they're gonna say it with votes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of d...amage done by tea and sympathy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That, of course, was the thing about the fifties with all their patina of familial bliss: A lot of the memories were not happy, no...t mine, not my friends'. That's probably why the myth so endures, because of the dissonance in our lives between what actually went on at home and what went on up there on those TV screens where we were allegedly seeing ourselves reflected back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish... to ease his lot by all possible means--except by getting off his back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »