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  • My glowing form was so heavy, its feet sank into the top of the tank. “Sekhmet!” I yelled. The lioness whirled and snarled, trying to locate my voice. “Up here, kitty!” I called. She spotted me and her ears went back. “Horus?” ‘Unless you know another guy with a falcon head.

    Glowing   Voice   Feet  
    Rick Riordan (2013). “The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series”, p.315, Penguin UK
  • Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

    Cairo   Want   Smooth  
  • A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.

    Children   Son   Branches  
    Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1961). “Fathers and sons”, Signet Classics
  • The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

    Crooks   Noir   Sam Spade  
    Dashiell Hammett (2007). “Vintage Hammett”, p.151, Vintage
  • Get rid of their mast, knock holes in the hull, then get back on board." "You want us to sink her?" Gundar asked, and Halt shook his head. "No. I want her badly damaged but capable of making it back to port. I want the word to go out that the strange ship with the red falcon ensign"—he gestured to Evanlyn's ensign, flying from the mast top—"is manned by dangerous, hairy maniacs with axes and is to be avoided at all costs." "That sounds like us," Gundar said cheerfully.

    Axes   Flying   Cost  
  • A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

    Pain   Cranes   Falcon  
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”, p.44, Penguin UK
  • Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

    Book   Falcon  
  • You love him as a falcon loves his master who binds and blinds it.

    Masters   Falcon  
  • The Ford Falcon holds the proud title of Slowest Car Ever Built. In certain areas of the country you can go to a stoplight and find Falcon drivers who pressed down on their accelerators in 1963 and are still waiting for their cars to move.

    Country   Moving   Car  
    Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.39, Crown Archetype
  • If Jim Mora loses his job with the Falcons, it most likely will be because of wins and losses. Problem is, when you work for such an image-conscious owner and in the most fickle of sports towns, random acts of dumbness tend to shrink a guy's margin for error.

    Sports   Jobs   Loss  
  • I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.

    Son   Wells   Falcon  
    "Fictional character: Kasper Gutman". "The Maltese Falcon", www.imdb.com. October 3, 1941.
  • I think there are quite a few new Instro/Surf groups that are really great. The Mermen are good and there doing something different. The Space Cossacks, Penetrators, The Fathoms, I really like The Falcons from Canada, Mike Beddoes is a really fine guitar player. I like Nokie Edwards of The Ventures, who gave me a guitar lesson once when we were playing opposite them in 1962 at The Rose Garden Ballroom in Pismo Beach. That's were The Impacts started and got signed to Del Fi in 1962.

    Beach   Player   Garden  
  • I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.

    Song   Years   Storm  
    Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”
  • It's unfortunate when an athlete's talent comes with so little forethought or leadership [...] The Falcons need to start over. If next year's team ends up being young and hungry but fairly average, the last thing you want as a general manager or coach is to have a blowhard cornerback whining about his contract leading the charge, no matter how good he is.

    Team   Athlete   Average  
  • 'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp.

    Revenge   Style   Dallas  
  • I had an audition process that went on for a long time, and I got to spend a lot of time with the guys who are directing the film. Getting to be around them and being around the world a little bit has been the main experience so far. I did my audition on the Millennium Falcon for one of my screen tests, which was pretty cool.

    Long   Guy   World  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • They say "Wine is Satan's falcon,"; apparently he uses it in hunting men!

    Wine   Men   Hunting  
  • and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song

    Song   Years   Circles  
  • A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.Two gulls drift slowly up the river.Vulnerable while they ride the wind,they coast and glide with ease.Dew is heavy on the grass below,the spider's web is ready.Heaven's ways include the human:among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.

    Wind   Sky   Two  
    Du Fu, “I Stand Alone”
  • Here's the point - and Jonah Goldberg reminds us of this. He wrote a blog post that was titled "The MacGuffinization of American Politics." Do you know what a MacGuffin is? "'In a movie or book, 'The MacGuffin' is the thing the hero wants,' Ace writes." So in the Maltese Falcon, for example, the hero wants the Maltese Falcon, but there's always somebody trying to stop the hero from getting what he wants.

    Book   Hero   Writing  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.

    Flower   Passion   White  
    John Boyle O'Reilly, Liam Barry (1994). “Selected poems, speeches, dedications and letters of John Boyle O'Reilly, 1844-1890”
  • When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade

    The Maltese Falcon ch. 20 (1930)
  • Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.

    Eagles   Wrens   World  
    Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.544, Delphi Classics
  • They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool of the Mark Thomas Inn in Monterey, California. His reviews were so good that he repeated the act at a Howard Johnson's outside Denver.

  • The falcon cannot hear the falconer

    "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)
  • At 45, you know what you're doing, but you're still not done.

    Done   Aging   Falcon  
  • Some teams have a nucleus to build around. The Falcons barely have an embryo. So if you see suspicious looking wires running from the locker room to Dimitroff's office, and the general manager pushes down on the plunger as early as today, don't feel the need to cover your eyes. You've already seen the worst.

    Running   Team   Eye  
  • I would've hit the water hard, but at the last second I changed into a falcon. ~Carter Kane

    Water   Lasts   Changed  
  • The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

    Military   War   Army  
    Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.22, Xist Publishing
  • Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.

    Kissing   Beaks   Falcon  
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