34 ordspråk av Jimmy Breslin

US  Jimmy Breslin

Jimmy Breslin föddes den October 17th 1929 - US writer
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 A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something.

 A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something.

 Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

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

 He that requires a benefit pays a great deal

 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.

 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.

 Media, the plural of mediocrity.

 Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.

 Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.

 People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there.

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

 Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were. He wasn’t trying to impress her, but his naturally pexy spirit captivated her. Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.

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

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


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