Rick Blaine Quotes

Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine…

I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

But he's nice," Barby objected. Tom Bishop smiled without humor. "Most pleasant and interesting man I ever knew was a burglar.

Here's looking at you, kid.

Rick and Scotty, who had heard Australian slang before from Digger Sears, one-time mate of the Tarpon, broke into chuckles. "I'd better translate," Scotty said, "'Lord stone the crows' is just an expression. Oscar Ashe is hard cash. Yakka is hard work. And dinkum oil is gospel truth.

Rick was proud of his sister. In situations where most girls would be a burden, she could more than hold her own. She could hike all day without complaint, and she was like a water sprite when it came to swimming. At tennis, although Rick had a much stronger drive, she gave him plenty of competition. And at badminton or ping-pong, where strength didn't count, she could run him ragged. She was a swell trail companion and her sense of adventure was as strong as his own.

No sooner did the plan let them off at New Caledonia, than Barby found another friend. He was a Kanaka taxi driver, over six feet tall and muscled like a blacksmith, with sooty skin and hair turned yellow from many applications of lime, a standard native treatment for lice. He chewed betel incessantly, which Barby thought was fascinating, since it turned his tongue and lips the color of a ripe tomato. His name, he said in wonderfully bad English, was Henri. He pronounced it 'On-ree.

We women have intuition," Barby said loftily. "I wouldn't expect you to understand. I can't imagine why there aren't more women detectives.

As they left the pier and walked into the park, Chahda looked around appreciatively. "Nice place, this. Capital of New Caledonia. Big island, has 8,548 square mile, also has 53,245 peoples. Eleven thousand in Noumea. That is what says the Worrold Alm-in-ack." Rick and Scotty laughed. It was like old times to hear Chahda quoting from The World Almanac. A Bombay beggar boy, he had educated himself with only the Almanac for his textbook, and he had laboriously memorized everything in it.

It was typical of Rick, when faced with an apparently insoluble problem, to look for an answer.

A hunch is only a conscious conclusion based on subconscious data you don't know you have.

Adventure," Rick Brant said,"Is kind of hard to define, because what may be adventure to one person may be commonplace to another." -Rick Brant, Smugglers Reef

Plenty of blanks in the world's charts. There will have to be a lot surveying before all of them are filled in.

There was a line in which Rick Blaine complained that of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Ingrid Bergman had to walk into his. Luke had told him, “You can do a lot with a line like that.

Hit/Stand Decisions on Hard-Total Hands •  Stand on all hard totals of 17 and higher. •  When the dealer is showing an upcard of 7, 8, 9, T, A, hit all hands until your cards total 17 or higher. •  Stand on hard totals of 13, 14, 15, 16 vs. dealer upcard of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; otherwise hit. •  Stand on hard total of 12 vs. dealer upcard of 4, 5, 6; otherwise hit.

Double Down Decisions on Hard-Total Hands •  Double down on all hard totals of 11 vs. dealer upcard of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, T; otherwise hit. •  Double down on all hard totals of 10 vs. dealer upcard of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; otherwise hit. •  Double down on all hard totals of 9 vs. dealer upcard of 3, 4, 5, 6; otherwise hit.

abreast.

If we all sought precision in our speech many of the world's misunderstandings could be avoided.

Gentlemen...we've long boasted that the mind always wins over force. Now, I think, we must prove it.