Dashiell Hammett quote: "She stared at him dully and said: “I don’t like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn’t like crooks that are stool-pigeons, and if I liked crooks that are stool-pigeons, I still wouldn’t like you.” She turned to the outer door."

Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I

I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I

On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I

casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I

I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I

I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I

I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
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I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I

I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I

You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I

I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I

Married to the Mob.
LIKE I

Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I

I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I

throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I

I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I

Crooks stood up from his bunk and faced her. "I had enough," he said coldly. "You got no rights comi...
JOHN STEINBECK

Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling you...
CORY DOCTOROW

There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's b...
RONALD BIGGS

Crooks are early adopters.
CRAIG NEWMARK

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.
JASON STATHAM

I don’t like to share my personal life… it wouldn’t be personal if I shared it.
GEORGE CLOONEY

If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I...
IF I WAKE

I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me
IF I WAKE

You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson...
IF I WAKE

I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ...
IF I WAKE

She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins
IF I WAKE

I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I

There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains ou...
RONALD BIGGS

:She still didn’t have to lock you in a box,: said the wolf, emerging from Cricket’s thoughts. :...
ASH GRAY

Sometimes it feels like even if
Every inch of my skin was touching yours
I still wouldn’...
JUSTIN WETCH

All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't...
ALICE WALKER

If you don’t know what love is, or how, real love feels like, you wouldn’t know that you have ex...
RAJWIN CHANDY

I love the pigeons. I just raise them, period, and feed them. Pigeons go away, and they always come ...
GEORGE FOREMAN

Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disabil...
TONI MORRISON

It's like nothing matters. If someone stabbed me in the chest I wouldn't flinch, if someone shot me,...
STEVEN MONACO

Crooks! Thieves! Hang ?em all!.
BOB REED

People should not be ashamed to come forward. These crooks are good at what they do.
HUGH GRAF

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks ...
ALEXEI NAVALNY

He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to ...
BILL SCOTT

In the physical world, many of those who look like beggars are actually crooks. In the virtual realm...
XIA XUELUAN

We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks i...
KALLAM ANJI REDDY

In Chicago, we love our crooks!
DAVID MAMET

You wouldn’t dare!”
I cocked my head at him and thought about it.
“Why do people say...
GARON WHITED

It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of s...
THOMAS POGGE

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you ...
TOM HANKS

She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a “superior posit...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Why are you being so nice to me?' I asked her.
'You know,' she said, 'when you say stuff like t...
SARAH DESSEN

She came up to me one day and said 'I think it would be good if we did a fundraiser,' ... I said, 'W...
JENNIFER HAMPTON

Nevada has passed more and more laws to become the Delaware of the West, ... This type of situation ...
BARBARA BUCKLEY

Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that’s what...
GAYLE FORMAN

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool...
CLINT EASTWOOD

It will allow us to catch more crooks.
PAUL CHAVEZ

People generally err in regarding policemen as either saints or crooks. They are at neither extreme....
HOWARD WHITMAN

I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics.
WOODY ALLEN

Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she...
KAREN RUSSELL

I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics
WOODY ALLEN

Unquestionably, there are online crooks who are getting away with impunity. Victims are fending for ...
BERYL HOWELL

I get really nervous if pigeons are flying around before shows. I can't stand them after one onc...
NIALL HORAN

No, I know,” Levi said. “But it’s not you. You don’t push through every moment. You pay atte...
RAINBOW ROWELL

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I ...
MARK HADDON

If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.
RICHARD M. NIXON

A warp," Nita whispered. "A tunnel through space-time. Are you a white hole?"
It stopped bobbin...
DIANE DUANE

You really don’t understand, do you?” she said. “I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. ...
NEIL GAIMAN

Everything I’d fought for, every challenge, every victory … all of it was empty if anything happ...
RICHELLE MEAD

Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn’t really have a philosophy, but ...
ILONA ANDREWS

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
DASHIELL HAMMETT

If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side,...
BETTY WHITE

This is one of a number of bills we get up here every year that implies we all are crooks.
REP. DAVID SCHULTHEIS

The grapes that my hands wouldn’t reach were undoubtedly sour.
But I didn’t need sweet frui...
WATARU WATARI

Coraline sighed. ‘You really don’t understand, do you?’ she said. ‘I don’t want whatever I...
NEIL GAIMAN

Coraline sighed. “You really don’t understand, do you?” she said. “I don’t want whatever I...
NEIL GAIMAN

I don't know anybody who helped to the degree that she did. She just rolls up her sleeves and goes a...
BARBARA THOMAS

I don’t want any money.”
I put the wallet away.
She said: “What are you going to do ...
JONATHAN LATIMER

What’s going on?” Ingrid asked. “Listen, nothing bad today, please.” She pulled a chair out ...
TAYLOR KEYS

When I did finally speak, I surprised myself by saying exactly what was on my mind. “You must ha...
KRISTIN CAST

There's something quite fascinating with crooks and criminals and all things against the law.
JASON STATHAM

Do you think I have good character?”
“The best.”
Smiling, she ran her fingers down...
BIJOU HUNTER

I went over and talked to her and said it's a quarter to eight, you could still be taking pictures. ...
ERIN JOHANSSON

You are right, I do fall down a lot.
But that wouldn’t be true if I never stood back up.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH

We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp.
MOHAMMED SAEED AL-SAHAF

I just asked them if they were still champions or not. I basically said that if you are, you have to...
CHARLIE KENDRICK

I like your glasses," he said. "I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don't smile at ever...
RAINBOW ROWELL

I’m your big sister. I don’t have to see anything to know James is always something bad.”
KIERSTEN WHITE

Straightaway, they started chatting and telling me their names: Fred and Rose West. I was surprised ...
STEPHEN RICHARDS

Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normal...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.
GAYLE FORMAN

I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter
GAYLE FORMAN

Who am I, that you should love me?"
"You are My Queen," said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still...
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER

I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won’t tell them that people are starving i...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

We were five. You had a plaid dress and your hair...it was in two braids instead of one. My father p...
SUZANNE COLLINS

All of their 1040 information was in the hands of these crooks.
BILL GARRISON

Uh, she said maybe your eyes matched the Fog like a synchronous magnetic field?”
“I don’...
JOEL N. ROSS

Where are you?" he asked. "I'm right here" she said. "I know, but it feels like one percent of you i...
C. JOYBELL C.

We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and...
JIM THOMPSON

I love you, Eliza,” I said.
She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t li...
KURT VONNEGUT

reform of the courts, a return to democracy and the demise of the 'crooks' currently running the cou...
IMRAN KHAN

She stared at him dully and said: “I don’t like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn’t like crooks that are stool-pigeons, and if I liked crooks that are stool-pigeons, I still wouldn’t like you.” She turned to the outer door.

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She stared at him dully and said: “I don’t like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn’t like crooks that are stool-pigeons, and if I liked crooks that are stool-pigeons, I still wouldn’t like you.” She turned to the outer door.

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