A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.
Duncan Sheik

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.
Esther Dyson

I am not a crook.
Richard M. Nixon

I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.
Bernard Ebbers

I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook.
Benny Hinn

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
Charlie Chaplin

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
William Wordsworth

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
Owen D. Young

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.
Richard M. Nixon

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
James Dean

There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.
Ronald Biggs

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
Larry Elder

You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!
Giuseppe Zangara