Famous quotes containing the words hammett and/or stated:
“When a mans partner is killed hes supposed to do something about it. It doesnt make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner, and youre supposed to do something about it.”
—Dashiell Hammett (18941961)
“Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side.”
—David Lehman (b. 1948)