Quotes About Chandler

Chandler's "She was blonde enough to make a bishop kick a hole through a stained-glass window

My greatest crush was Chandler from 'Friends.' And Goran Ivanisevic.

I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.

A treat indeed, to read Raymond Chandler for the first time. I almost envied the man

In 1991, I won the Chandler Fulbright Prize, which came with $20,000 and the stipulation of spending six months in the U.S.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

Whitney brought in his friends Edwin Webster, Chandler Hovey, and Albert H. Gordon to take over the company's name and goodwill.

Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.

Bred en bawn in a brier-patch, Brer Fox.

Less saw its marks and scars and aches not as failures of age but the opposite: the evidence, as Raymond Chandler once wrote, of "a gaudy life.

Stamp was also innovative about his assembly line, setting up his factory in Chandler so that the satellites were built horizontally instead of vertically. That meant the assemblers could work at waist level, whereas on military satellites, the technicians stood on ladders and leaned over. He trained Lockheed Martin in the new technique, then later bragged about it to his friends at Khrunichev in Moscow, only to be told, "We've done it that way for forty years.

I will fight Chandler again and I will make him quit.

With 'The Big Lebowski,' we were really consciously thinking about doing a Raymond Chandler story, as much as it's about L.A.

Was he still, somehow, watching over her?

I like to tease a bit, if he'll let me, with the owners' son, two, whose name happens to be Chandler, and who himself likes to play in the big bins of nails. And so, forgetting myself, thank God: Hullo. Hullo, short and relatively new. Welcome again to the land of the living, to time, this hill of beans. Chandler will have, as usual, none of it. He keeps his mysterious counsel.

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

man had blond hair, all right, and he smiled and showed all his teeth.

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.

I turned back to the television. After a while what I was staring at registered. "Hey, this is The Long Goodbye ." Jake opened his eyes. "What?" "This movie. It's Robert Altman's take on Chandler's The Long Goodbye . 'Nothing says good-bye like a bullet.'" "I don't know," said Jake. "Sometimes the words are enough.

Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.

We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.

I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell right down the rabbit hole of crime fiction.

I really like Deadmau5 and Coyote Kisses. And Foo Fighters too, I like rock.