"Every male in the world thinks he's an……" — Ben Aaronovitch
"Every male in the world thinks he's an excellent driver. Every copper who's ever had to pick an eyeball out of a puddle knows that most of them are kidding themselves."
—
Ben Aaronovitch
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
34 Quotes by Ben Aaronovitch
Ben Aaronovitch has 34 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos.
-
What do you think you're doing?
-
Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.
-
The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they…
-
When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults…
-
He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important…
-
Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science…
-
I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting". "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?
-
The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion…
-
Are they really gods?" "I never worry about theological questions," said Nightingale. "They exist, they have power and they can…
-
You put a spell on the dog," I said as we left the house. "Just a small one," said Nightingale.…
-
...good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
See all 34 quotes by Ben Aaronovitch »
More Copper Quotes
This quote is filed under Copper Quotes,
one of 84 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush…
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
-
There was an Old Man of Columbia, Who was thirsty, and called out for some beer; But they brought it…
— Edward Lear
-
Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and…
— Mark Twain
-
Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles,…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
-
In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by…
— Louis Pasteur
-
I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me.…
— Unknown Author
-
An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the…
— Herman Melville
-
Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil…
— Paul Romer
-
Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper…
— Murray Rothbard
-
Prior to 1968, the gullible gentiles could take a one dollar Federal Reserve note into any bank in America and…
— Harold Wallace Rosenthal
-
Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an…
— Will Eisner
-
Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in…
— Toni Morrison
See all 84 Copper Quotes »