Quotes of: Spade Keyword

Sam Spade: People lose teeth talking like that. If you want to hang around, you'll be polite.

The Maltese Falcon

Brigid O'Shaughnessy: What would you do if I didn't tell you? Something wild and unpredictable? Spade: I might.

The Maltese Falcon

Sam Spade: You don't have to trust me as long as you can persuade me to trust you.

The Maltese Falcon

Doughboy: You know how to play Spades, Dooky? Dooky: Somethin' like that. Doughboy: I got somethin' for you to suck on.

Boyz n the Hood

Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in ...

Michael Patrick Jann

Joel Cairo: Might I remind you Mr. Spade that you may have the falcon, but we certainly have you.

The Maltese Falcon

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

The Maltese Falcon

There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all of us. We're rugged individualists, aspirational in nature, and we like to think for ourselves.

Marianne Williamson

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

The Maltese Falcon

Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him.

Spetsnaz

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

The Queen of Spades

There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is in us, and not simple out there. And Christians are making a great mistake by turning everything into culture wars. It's a much deeper cr...

Os Guinness

There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades.

Michael Shermer

Vampires don't tan. Without UV protection, we get sunburned, heal, and just repeat the process over and over.” — Spade, First Drop of Crimson by Jeaniene Frost

Jeaniene Frost

[last lines] Detective Tom Polhaus: [picks up the falcon] Heavy. What is it? Sam Spade: The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of. Detective Tom Polhaus: Huh?

The Maltese Falcon

Wilmer Cook: Keep on riding me and they're gonna be picking iron out of your liver. Sam Spade: The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

The Maltese Falcon

Sam Spade: Haven't you tried to buy my loyalty with money and nothing else? Brigid O'Shaughnessy: What else is there I can buy you with?

The Maltese Falcon

As if Spade's chivalry would allow him to do anything to a woman. The harshest punishment she could imagine him dishing out to Cat would be refusing to open a door for her.

First Drop of Crimson

And she doesn't understand why he doesn't want to put out his medal like a trophy. And he can't tell her that he liberated Europe with a spade.

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open hand struck the side of his face three times savagely.

The Maltese Falcon

Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew abo...

Pia Zadora