Jimmy Breslin Quotes

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
Jimmy Breslin

Nothing, Small, Number

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
Jimmy Breslin

Place, Stop, Started

Media, the plural of mediocrity.
Jimmy Breslin

Mediocrity, Media, Plural

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
Jimmy Breslin

Writing, Quality, Anybody

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.
Jimmy Breslin

Money, Lots, Vacant

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
Jimmy Breslin

Against, Public, Actually

Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.
Jimmy Breslin

Immediate, Received

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
Jimmy Breslin

Architecture, Hands, Intentions

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
Jimmy Breslin

Game, Football, Keep

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
Jimmy Breslin

Politics, Men, Themselves

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
Jimmy Breslin

Past, Language, Cheerful

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.
Jimmy Breslin

Work, Him, Night

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
Jimmy Breslin

Why, Public, Interest

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.
Jimmy Breslin

Life, Job, Writing

Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.
Jimmy Breslin

Live, Friends, Same

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: October 17, 1930

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