#boiled

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#boiled #could #disappointing #down #form

I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#computer #computer program #created #down #i

I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.' ↗

— Liam Neeson

#always #back #boiled #dad #hard

She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#hardboiled #humour #noir #beauty

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake ↗

— James M. Cain

#love #noir #love

...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child. ↗

— James Crumley

#love

At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea. ↗

— Dana Stabenow

#hard-boiled #mystery #mystery-series #death

The body lay outside an abandoned, boarded-up theater. The theater had started as a first-run movie house, many years back when the neighborhood had still been fashionable. As the neighborhood began rotting, the theater began showing second-run films, and then old movies, and finally foreign-language films. ↗

— Ed McBain

#film #hard-boiled #movies

The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#mystery-suspense #noir #love

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#boiled #contraception #down #easier #easy