Out of the Past quotes

61 total quotes

Jack Fisher
Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham
Kathie Moffat
Multiple Characters
Whit Sterling

View Quote I sell gasoline, I make a small profit. With that I buy groceries. The grocer makes a profit. We call it earning a living. You may have heard of it somewhere.

View Quote I think I'm in a frame...I don't know. All I can see is the frame. I'm going in there now to look at the picture.

View Quote I wasn't sorry for him or sore at her. I wasn't anything.

View Quote It was a nice little joint with bamboo furniture and Mexican gimcracks. One little lamp burned. It was all right. And the rain hammering like that on the window made it good to be in there.

View Quote It was meeting her somewhere like in the first times. There was still that something about her that got me - a kind of magic or whatever it was. I held her and we could laugh because we were together again. We'd played it smart and forgotten nothing. Forgotten nothing except one thing. He had followed her.

View Quote It was the bottom of the barrel and I scraped it. But I didn't care. I had her.

View Quote My feelings? About ten years ago, I hid them somewhere and haven't been able to find them.

View Quote She waited until it was late. And then she walked in out of the moonlight, smiling.

View Quote She's a clever little girl and she's always a hop, skip, and a jump ahead.

View Quote They say the day you die your name is written on a cloud.

View Quote We found a little movie house in North Beach. We were on the run. We went to places we never would have seen in our lives. And after a while, we grew a little more sure of ourselves. We drifted back to more familiar places. Ball parks and the race tracks. Why not? After all, there was one chance in a million we'd bump into our past.

View Quote When you see her, you'll understand better.

View Quote You can't make deals with a dead man, Jeff.

View Quote You don't get vaccinated for Florida, but you do for Mexico.

View Quote You say to yourself, "How hot can it get?" Then, in Acapulco, you find out. I knew she had to wind up here because if you want to go south, here's where you get the boat. All I had to do was wait. Near the plaza was a little cafe, called La Mar Azul next to a movie house. I sat there in the afternoons and drank beer. I used to sit there half-asleep with the beer and the darkness. Only that music from the movie next door kept jarring me awake.