"Football is a game designed to keep coal……" — Jimmy Breslin
"Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets."
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38 Quotes by Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin has 38 quotes on this site.
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The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
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When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
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If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks…
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Media, the plural of mediocrity.
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Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.
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Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public…
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Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary…
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Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I…
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A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and…
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Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
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Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.
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Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
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More Coal Quotes
This quote is filed under Coal Quotes,
one of 411 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of…
— David Bailey
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
— Philip James Bailey
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I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard…
— Javier Bardem
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ…
— Annie Besant
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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of…
— Aneurin Bevan
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
— Bono
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I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel…
— Jeff Buckley
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After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.
— Drew Carey
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James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals…
— Samuel Rutherford
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...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe…
— Maya Angelou
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