A reliable academic resource for high school and college students.
Essay database with free papers will provide you with original and creative ideas.
Essay database with free papers will provide you with original and creative ideas.
Quotations
It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. SwiftPapers now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Raymond Chandler Quotes
«When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
artistic, ball, dozen, emotional, half a dozen, half dozen, intensity, movement, performance, pitcher, reaches, similar, The Movement, tone
«Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| About:
Alcohol
| Keywords:
alcohol, intimate, routine, The First Kiss, The Third
«The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
buttoned, buttoning, buttons, button up, imperfect, intended, lucky, on the button, press, show up
«The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
agent, convince, degrees, durable, investment, investments, in writing, misunderstand, most-valuable, on the way, paid off, pays, pay off, publisher, publishers, sneer, sneered, sneering, sneers, writes, write off, writing style
«I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
apartments, a great deal, blondes, great deal, particularly, research, researched, researches, researching, tall, The Apartment, The Apartments
