"Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement:……" — Jimmy Breslin
"Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.."
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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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Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
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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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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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