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I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel... — Dashiell Hammett

I just tell you what happens. I don't explain it. — Dashiell Hammett

Another man whose social life has ruined him. — Dashiell Hammett

Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm. — Kirk Hammett

You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards. — Dashiell Hammett

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one. — Dashiell Hammett

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction. — Dashiell Hammett

Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me. — Dashiell Hammett

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan. — Dashiell Hammett

Thanks for the information about what we call business. — Dashiell Hammett

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail. — Dashiell Hammett

I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother. — Dashiell Hammett

I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old. — Kirk Hammett

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

It was a good trick, only it didn't work. In — Dashiell Hammett

Dorothy asked timidly: "Did his wife say anything?
"She sent her love to you."
Nora said: "Stop being nasty. — Dashiell Hammett

To swipe the immortal lines uttered by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, a great mystery should take the lid off life and let [you] look at the works. — Dashiell Hammett

She grinned at me. 'You got types?'
'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws. — Dashiell Hammett

Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar. — Kirk Hammett

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive. — Kirk Hammett

Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood. — Kirk Hammett

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn. — Dorothy Parker

Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time. — Kirk Hammett

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head. — Kirk Hammett

One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.' — Kirk Hammett

When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react. — Kirk Hammett

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar. — Kirk Hammett

I love 'True Blood.' I love 'The Walking Dead.' Those are fantastic series. — Kirk Hammett

I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror. — Kirk Hammett

The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered — Dashiell Hammett

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo. — Kirk Hammett

Looks like she's been slapping the kid again. — Dashiell Hammett

I said: All right, talk, but do you mind putting the gun away? My wife doesn't care, but I'm pregnant and I don't want the child to be born with ... — Dashiell Hammett

The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two. — Dashiell Hammett

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties. — Kirk Hammett

Be still while I get up or I'll make an opening in your head for brains to leak in. — Dashiell Hammett

I guess I can put two and two together."
"Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two ... — Dashiell Hammett

Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.
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I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve. — Dashiell Hammett

She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily. — Dashiell Hammett

The main riff for 'SandMan' was just something I wrote one night. — Kirk Hammett

He's the guy that the joke was wrote about: 'Is he a criminal lawyer?' 'Yes, very. — Dashiell Hammett

You ought to have known I'd do it!" My voice sounded harsh and savage like a stranger's in my ears. "Didn't I steal a crutch from a cripple? — Dashiell Hammett

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter. — Dashiell Hammett

If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later. — Dashiell Hammett

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James. — Donna Leon

I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs! — Kirk Hammett

I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks. — Kirk Hammett

What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life. — Dashiell Hammett

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble. — Dashiell Hammett

How about a drop of something to cut the phlegm?
Why don't you stay sober today?
We didn't come to New York to stay sober. — Dashiell Hammett

The roof might fall in; anything could happen. — Dashiell Hammett

THOSE THAT HOPE LITTLE CANNOT GROW MUCH." - George MacDonald, The Hope of the Gospel — Edward H. Hammett

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun. — Dashiell Hammett

You might as well take your punishment and get it over with — Dashiell Hammett

This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives. — Dashiell Hammett

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate. — Kirk Hammett

What do people think about my staying with Harrison with him chasing everything that's hot and hollow? — Dashiell Hammett

He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works. — Dashiell Hammett

It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists. — Kirk Hammett

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. — Dashiell Hammett

How do you feel?" "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober. — Dashiell Hammett

To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted. — Dashiell Hammett

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.' — Kirk Hammett

Nora: "How do you feel?"
Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober. — Dashiell Hammett

you'll have your city back, all nice and clean and ready to go to the dogs again — Dashiell Hammett

If you aren't normal, it's because you're tougher, saner, cooler than normal. — Dashiell Hammett

I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy. — Kirk Hammett

I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does. — Dashiell Hammett

I like women. I really like women. — Dashiell Hammett

With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well. — Dashiell Hammett

Nora said: 'I love you, Nicky, because you smell nice and know such fascinating people. — Dashiell Hammett

The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second you. — Dashiell Hammett

A bullet kissed a hole in the door-frame close to my noodle. — Dashiell Hammett

I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style. — Dashiell Hammett

It's probably polite to pretend you don't see people coming out of pawnshops, anyhow. — Dashiell Hammett

Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself. — Dashiell Hammett

I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner. — Dashiell Hammett

He went like that," Spade said, "like a fist when you open your hand. — Dashiell Hammett

And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it." - Detective Sam Spade — Dashiell Hammett

You're not going to go around poking at the fire and straightening up the room again, are you? — Dashiell Hammett

Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny — Dashiell Hammett

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper. — Dashiell Hammett

His wife was a tall, stringy woman, perhaps five years older than her husband - say, forty - with a mouth and chin that seemed shaped for gossiping. — Dashiell Hammett

Most things in San Francisco can be bought or taken. — Dashiell Hammett

The movie 'Black Cat,' from 1934, is one of my favorite movies. — Kirk Hammett

I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark. — Kirk Hammett

He's cute," I said.
"Uh-huh," the grey man agreed, "and so's dynamite. — Dashiell Hammett

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep! — Kirk Hammett

But besides, I haven't the time, I'm too busy trying to see that you don't lose any of the money I married you for. — Dashiell Hammett

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha! — Kirk Hammett

He did not smile. I don't believe in anything, but I'm too much of a gambler not to be affected by a lot of things. — Dashiell Hammett

Nick: "Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?"
Nora: "No, thanks."
Nick: "Maybe it would if I took one. — Dashiell Hammett

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living. — Kirk Hammett

I was two pavements from my destination when somebodey S-s-s-s-s'd at me.
I probably didn't jump twenty feet. — Dashiell Hammett

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery. — Dashiell Hammett

The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps. — Dashiell Hammett

Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight. — Dashiell Hammett

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it. — James Ellroy

A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It's not easy once you're out of the habit. — Dashiell Hammett