Quotes About Chandler

The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.

I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan.

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might,if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

On the smooth brown hair was a hat that had been taken from its mother too young.

I was fired. For insubordination. I test very high on insubordination

Very methodical guy, Marlowe. Nothing must interfere with his coffee technique. Not even a gun in the hand of a desperate character.

The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law. ( Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel , 1949)

The house itself was not so much. It was smaller than Buckingham Palace, rather gray for California, and probably had fewer windows than the Chrysler Building.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

I'm not sneering at sex. It's necessary and it doesn't have to be ugly. But it always has to be managed. Making it glamorous is a billion-dollar industry and it costs every cent of it.

A hard-boiled redhead sang a hard-boiled song in a voice that could have been used to split firewood (Guns at Cyrano's)

It's a sordid life, but I'm used to it.

So I got out my office bottle and took the drink and let my self-respect ride its own race.

I guess you can snap her garter any time you want to, without much of a struggle. But there's one thing you can be sure of—you're a late comer to the show.

Anybody home, son?" "You ought to know." "How would I know?" "Go — yourself." "That's how people get false teeth." He showed me his in a tight grin.

he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

my whole career is based on the idea that the formula doesn't matter, the thing that counts is what you do with the formula; that is to say, it is a matter of style.

sight and snapped a switch on his call box. 'Have

He says you make good coffee and you get up kind of late in the mornings and are apt to run to a very bright line of chatter and that we should believe anything you say, provided we can check it by five independent witnesses.

There was my yellow cowhide, well scraped on both sides from being pushed around in the boots of cars.

I put the doped whiskey down where he could reach it, if his hands hadn't been strapped.

It had the austere simplicity of fiction rather than the tangled woof of fact.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Bellator wouldn't be who they are without my performances and Michael Chandler wouldn't be who he is without Bellator promoting him and us having a phenomenal symbiotic relationship.