"The hand that holds the money cracks the whip."

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Source : James M. Cain (2010). “Mildred Pierce”, p.184, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

James M. Cain

#Hands Quotes #Cracks Quotes

“If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. Youre not paying attention to whats happening in the universe around you.”
“If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!”
“Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.”
“I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax”

Source : "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)". Debate in the House of Commons (Column 654), publications.parliament.uk. July 23, 1993.
“The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.”
“ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.”
“Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.”
“If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.”

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