#hamm

So that's the way you scientific detectives work. My god! for a fat, middle-aged, hard-boiled, pig-headed guy, you've got the vaguest way of doing things I ever heard of. ↗

— Dashiell Hammett

#noir #age

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali. ↗

— Wilt Chamberlain

#big #couple #dad #days #fan

The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization. ↗

— W.A.R. Gibb

#atheist #christian #civilization #complete #earth

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#also #being #circus #fear #films

ليس الشديد بالصرعة؛ إنما الشديد الذي يملك نفسه عند الغضب The strong person is not the good wrestler. Rather,the strong person is the one who controls himself when he is angry. (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 73, #135) ↗

— Anonymous

#bukhari #hadeeth #hadith #islam #mohammed

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#better #cooler #hammered #head #just

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer. ↗

— Alan Lewis

#first #get #hammer #if at first #succeed

I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ↗

— Jacob August Riis

#before #blow #crack #did #first

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. ↗

— Jacob Riis

#crack #go #hammering #help #his

From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone. ↗

— Idries Shah

#god #islam #jesus #mohammed #muslims